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Updates:

September 29th, 2008
 

- Explored different colors for the menus so that they can stand out from the game environment

- Implemented samples for the microscope and created a simple version of a microscope experiment


October 1st, 2008
 

- Created web site

- Researched papers and web sites explaining how water molecules rearrange when water freezes

 

October 13, 2008
 

- Fixed small problems with the BBs and cleaned the code

- Decided that the molecules interaction is not going to be based on the papers I researched last week.


October 15, 2008
 

- Corrected the code so that when all molecules are inserted, they have a different orientation

- Programmed vibrations within every molecule

- Programmed movement of molecules. Still need to find out how to keep looping through the group iterator BB so that all molecules move all the time

October 20, 2008
 

- Found out how to implement the other two joysticks from the gamepad

- Implemented movement within the water sample scene

 

October 27, 2008
 

- Worked with Maya and the nCloth effects. Tried to design different lab clothing and study the effect of the nCloth effect when used on a person

-Studied PyMol, Chimera and other similar programs in order to understand how molecules and the interaction between different molecules can be coded.

October 29, 2008
 

- Designed 3D models of hospital furniture (in Maya) that will be used for the introductory animation for the game

November 03, 2008
 

- Updated the avatar so that no red line can be seen while moving within the space

- Added sound effects for two of the experiments and for the water sample scene

November 05, 2008
 

- Implemented two samples that can be used for the microscope - a bacterial and a viral samples

- Created Flash animations of bacteria and viruses that are used for the microscope experiments

November 10-December 1, 2008
 

- Updated the Flash animations made earlier

- Worked on modeling the environment for the introductory animation

- Samples can now be collected and an image of the sample appears on the right, indicating that this sample has been collected and can be used in experiments

- Finished programming the water molecules animation that depends on what the temperature of the sample is. This scrip will be used for all other samples used in the game.

- Implemented a thermometer for the molecular experiment. When the user clicks on a temperature button, the water molecules move with different speeds and form different structures

January 21, 2009
 

- Background for the molecular structure experiment changes depending on the temperature selected

- Corrected the water and benzene ice structures

January 26, 2009
 

- Started working on the densometer experiment: implemented background, thermometer and calculation of density depending on the selected temperature

January 28-February 06,2009
 

- Fixed problems with the navigation (looking up and down), implemented yellow dots in the overview map that show where the samples to be collected are, implemented a menu that explains how to navigate in the environment, started working on the notebook - implemented pages with constants and formulas

 
February 09,2009
 

- Updated the bacteria and viral animations
- Worked on the page-turning for the notebook

 
February 11,2009
 

- Fixed problem with turning pages of the notebook. Information button can have as many pages as needed
- Worked on the loading of a help menu when in the lab mode

 
February 16-February 26,2009
 

- Finished notebook implementation
- Changed the opening page for the game (new design and names of the buttons)
- Changed graphs for density experiment
- Worked on the intro animation - created three people and imported them in the hospital scene
- Added the notebook to the environment

 
March 1-March 22,2009
 

- Added new objects to the lab room
- Finished working on the first bacterial sample for the bacteria-growing experiment
- Added a new section in the notebook about bacteria
- Implemented a new interface object showing the game progress of the player
- Finished second bacterial sample
- Created smaller versions of the two animations for bacteria and viruses, and fixed problems with playing the two animations