Progress Report 10/16/14

Problem: 
Missing Patents and the skills/programs required to make the game.

Solution:
This week was very important for us because we started learning the skills that are essential for the creation of our game. For example, I have started watching tutorials on how to use Maya, a program that is used for 3D animation. This is very essential because our video game is going to need animations. While watching a video tutorial on youtube I found out that there is a free student version that is fairly similar to the full version of Maya. Right now I am taking things slowly, so I have only learned the basics (I have yet to actually create anything). Ryan and Helana started watching Java tutorials. Learning about Java is an important aspect to our project because it helps us program our game. To use Java, we downloaded NetBeans. The reason we focused on the skillful aspects of the project this week is because we are currently waiting for our MindWave order to arrive.

Maya Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZxQPVjGOrY

Java Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBWX97e1E9

This week we also started finding patents for MindWave/Biofeedback in Video Games. Some patents that we found include:

• http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=26&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(%22463%22%2F36.CCLS.)&OS=CCL/%22463%22/36&RS=CCL/%22463%22/36

• http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=43&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(%22463%22%2F36.CCLS.)&OS=CCL/%22463%22/36&RS=CCL/%22463%22/36

• http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=46&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(%22463%22%2F40.CCLS.)&OS=CCL/%22463%22/40&RS=CCL/%22463%22/40

Plan: 

Andres: I am going to keep watching the tutorial of Maya so that by next week I will be able to make animations such as swords, blocks, and the maze. 

Helana: She will continue to program and teach Ryan how to use Java. 

Ryan: He will develop ideas on how to implement biofeedback in the game that we plan on making.