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Welcome, everyone, to another sprint. As we push forward in our project, the challenges we conquer as a team, absolutely amaze me.  With that being said, lets get started :).

Does anyone have any comments, questions, or concerns about the agenda they are assigned too?  If you need your agenda defined better or you're not sure where to start, please post on the kanban discussion any questions and we can start figuring it out as a team.

I have some questions about the seasons:
Are the maps going to have trees? Or what about snow? How often will the seasons change? I'm thinking it is going to be a war zone so I don't want to make leaves blowing in the wind.
Any chance that the Sound Dept. can get a look at the maps/levels so that we can get an idea of the setting?
Otherwise, I could make some wind sounds for winter, and rain for fall/autumn.

I appreciate your  thoughts! :)

Matt will you please review the outline when you have a moment.  Let me know your thoughts I think I got it all in their.

Robert I will get to this as soon I need to talk to your lead.

Thanks,
James Fleming

I'm sorry I've been off-unexpectedly had to work today. I will have something by tomorrow evening.

@Anthony How is the logo and splash screen coming along? I have the login screen done and ready to go for merging our code togerher.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Robert You might take a look at the outline wiki and chapter 1 to get a feel for what we have at the moment.
http://www.thoucurator.com/wiki/viewwiki?wikiid=64

Thanks,
James Fleming

Excellent! Any chance that we could extend this assignment? 
Also, if it is possible to split it between Shayn and myself?

Thanks!

@James. It's coming, just haven't got a chance to really sit down and finish. I am working on this now and will be done shortly

@Robert I have added Shayn to the agenda.  Once this agenda is over we will review what was done on weather sounds.  However the Asset List should be a priority on this sprint, we need it to insure our programmers can find assets quick and easy.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James

I still never got the backup of the old files from TFS before the project was updated to 1.3.4.

I can finish the solution but the LogoSync and SplashSync scripts are going to need to be updated appropriately with the updated files.

@Anthony that is fine lets sync it up tonight if we can I would like to see the direction of the code base.  Let me know when you have checked it in, you can do a get latest and see the login as is right now I need to create a few more button image templates but seems good to go.  After you have checked it in I will review it and we can figure out a direction together for the rest of the screens.

You will notice on the login code that the Parameter at the top are accessible in Paradox Game Engine this is done so once we code it the design part can be completed by the game designer,  I would like the logo and splash backgrounds to be the same way so that the designer can change them out as needed, and any GUI on the screen they can move around as single controls or groups.  This will stop the programmer in the future from having to modify code request as much and allow us to focus on game play code more.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James

I am literally saving and getting ready to check in, just make a last check to make sure everything is working as planned

@Anthony Excellent I have the next two days off from work. I have to use my vacation time up so I took veteran day off an my son's birthday off.  So I will review it tonight after work and have a direction by tomorrow morning no later then 0900 CST.  Then we can see how much of this we can push though before Friday sprint ending.  Do me a favor until I can review this so we can start OOP concept for the GUI don't grab any items until tomorrow.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James.

Checked in to TFS and set as for review.

Sounds good. I wont grab anything and will just wait for your orders.

@Anthony Ok I had some time on lunch today to review what we have thank you for getting that checked in.  So from what I can see we both are using the Sync class of course.  So I will make a class for that tomorrow try a few idea I have before checking it in.  Another thing I also think is we will be using a few defaults setting like the font for the application as one of them.  So what I am going to do is make that a default setting somehow.

For now if you would like to download the lasted it is running like it should starting from the logo and ending at the login screen.

You can grab the console application agenda if you think you can get it done before Friday at 1800 CST other wise I would say lets wait.

Good job on the Logo & Splash screens.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James Thanks. I'm glad everything is running as it should. I should be able to easily get the console scene done and I'm sure I could even do the store scene. Ill of course only take one at a time but that will be my goal

@Anthony That sounds good to I have those tweaks we can re-merge everything Friday to see where we are with the project.

Thanks,
James Fleming

I'm sorry for my absence. My PC had some very serious trouble and I spent my time screwing around with that until its somewhat fixed.

@Anthony Would you check in the scene as well as any spritesheets or images into TFS that go with the console screen.

Also you might do a get lasted I am now finished with the login tweaking.  I need to review something from other roles before we push forward as you can see the base class structure has been created I notice you used it for the console screen nice job.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James

I guess I didn't pay attention to the rest of the assets not checking in. I will do that here in about 20 minutes being as I am almost done with the store scene as well.

Matt that always sucks I have backup for all our system just for fear of computer / server issue :(

I still need you to review the outline wiki an let me know if I got everything and if the format make sense.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@Anthony More in likely that is because you have uploaded one of the OBJ folders which as all the compiled code that is build every time you compile.  Just let it finish so we insure the code get uploaded then let me know when your done I will delete these folders out of TFS.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James. Everything is fully uploaded and appears working on my end.

@Anthony Awesome we are good to go i have the project cleared out of junk too.  Nice work on this sprint I will need to talk to nick to get the rest of these screen on an agenda for the next sprint then we are ready for game development :)

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James. Thanks! I didn't realize I was the only game programmer in the sprint or I would have jumped on things sooner. Glad I could get everything done before Friday to help us out!

@Zach I notice you got the progress email are you done with that agenda?  If so can you mark it as "Request Review" please.

Thanks,
James Fleming

@James Yes I was just doing some last minute revisions to the GDD. I'll mark it as Request Review now.

Thanks

@Team Sorry for the long delay with the server being down today. I was creating a database for our game to use and had to do a bit of standard changes. This has been completed as far as the system changes to the Web site goes. On the next sprint I will be working to get the data table set up for logins for the game.

Thanks,
James Fleming

Our project has been updated in the Demo section on the console page.  Please download it and try it out by opening the file "Application.Window".  If you have any problems seeing our game please let me know.

Thanks,
James Fleming