7/16/12 Update Progress
What We Have Accomplished
- Completed basic programming training in language: background
- We have begun basic video game development
- Began thinking of how we wanted to make our final product and decided it should be a co op strategy or puzzle game which require both players to win
What We are about to do
- Finish the lessons about the program and advanced control features
- Begin working on and developing our final video game products
Video Game Therapy
What our track is about:
- Create a video game which can be used to solve selective mutism
- Selective mutism: inability for certain people to speak in public or with people in charge
- By making a co-op game, it will teach people to come to trust others and work well with them
- Hope to solve any issues with mistrust and can naturally come to socialize with others in game, where it is more enjoyable, rather than a therapy session, where people may not participate since they either feel intimidated or unwilling
What we plan to do:
- After learning the programming and the concepts behind game development, members hope to either split into two groups or work as one united group
- Groups will then develop game ideas and begin implementing them to create a full scale game
- Beta testing and run-throughs of the game will occur to check if any errors are present
How we wish to accomplish our goal:
- Use of DarkBasic Pro Software (similar to Visual Basic) to create programs
- Gmail/Google Docs to either collaborate or message and communicate between team members
