Week 7 - Working on the game units

This week was another when were I didn't do much on this assignment. I worked on getting all the stats for the units down and making sure that they were comparable, although they may need to be changed after some testing has been done.

Work done, week 7 23-29 Aug;
units.xls - This is a excel file with all the stats of all the units.

units.as - An external Actionscript file that contains most of the units stats, hit points, attack, defense, speed-movement, speed-reload, and range.




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Week 6 - Working on the game layout

This week I did a little less work on this project. What I worked on was the menu and in-game layouts of the game.

Work done week 6 16-22 Aug;

Game - Worked on the menu and the in-game layout.



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Week 5 - Online website testing, starting the Game

During week five I did some more work on testing the site. I uploaded the site to the internet to allow some other people to test the site, and found some more errors so I fixed those. The site is here

Currently you can do the following;

Sign up
Login
Logout
View Profile
Edit Profile
Edit Account
Use contact form
Confirm account

I have also done some of the layout in Flash. I have pushed back the website a bit so that it will be completed at a later date and I will focus more on the game at this stage. I have also changed the due dates for the game as I didn't allow for the holidays originally. My internet is capped at the moment so I haven't been able to update my tasks as often.

I decided to make the site and game have a bit of a retro feel, in terms of colours and fonts etc.
I got some inspiration from some of the following;
Design Melt Down - Retro
Design Melt Down - Retro 2
Design Melt Down - Retro 3

I liked the idea of the following sites header and wanted something similar with the colours;
Good Widgets

I was originally also going to use the following tutorial to make the header, but it wasnt coming out how I wanted, but I still have used the colours.
Retro Text

Work done, week 5 9-15 Aug;

Tested PHP - Tested the PHP of most of the website, except the highscores table

Game - Started doing the layout of the game




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Week 4 - Finishing the XHTML

During the fourth week most of the time was spent finishing off the XHTML for the website.

When I finished the pages I wanted to make sure they displayed everything properly even without CSS. So I tested them using MAMP. MAMP allows me to view them locally on the Mac. When I loaded the pages up, except for the index.php, they just showed a blank page. I could not figure out why and so I uploaded one of the pages and tested it online. I discovered that there was a couple of errors in the PHP, but MAMP wouldn't tell me this, it would just show a blank page. So I eliminated the errors by way of narrowing it down and so the pages correctly load. Testing is yet to be done for the sign-up and login etc parts of the site. I used XAMPP on windows and that shows the PHP errors, I have not tried the Mac version yet.

I have decided that the imagery for the game will be done during the game production and not the first thing. The imagery for the site will be done when imagery for the game is done as they will share common elements.

Work done, week 4 2-8 Aug;

functions.php - There was some errors in the PHP which were corrected.

signup.php - Errors in PHP were corrected, and XHTML was done.

profile.php - XHTML was done for this page.

login.php - Errors in PHP were corrected and XHTML was done.

highscores.php - PHP errors and completed XHTML.

game.php - XHTML and JavaScript completed.

editprofile.php - Fixed PHP errors and completed XHTML

editaccount.php - Fixed PHP errors and completed XHTML

contact.php - Completed XHTML

confirm.php - Completed XHTML

Assuming the site works properly it will be like this one, except for the lack of forgot password, and comments features.
tourofduty.milkmandesign.com.au

Other features that I want to add to the website if there is time at the end;
AJAX check username
Forgot Password
Multiple types of Highscore types and sorting options
A resizing image functions.
Comments

These are the contact, login and signup pages respectively, without CSS.



Will

Week 3 - Finishing the PHP

In the third week of the project, time was spent finishing off the PHP programming for the website. Also some of the XHTML and CSS was done.

The website imagery was initially due at the end of the third week, but this was delayed a week so that it can be done at the same time as the game imagery. It is likely though that some of the game imagery will be pushed back, until after some of the Actionscripting has been done.

Work done, week 3 26 July - 1 Aug;

contact.php - The PHP for the contact page was done. The contact page will contain an email form, as well as an email link.

editprofile.php - The edit profile page PHP was completed. On this page users will be able to edit their country, sex, and about me sections, which appear on their profile.

editaccount.php - The edit account page will allow users to change their registered email address and password.

profile.php - The profile page will display the profile of the selected user.

functions.php - This page contains certain php functions that are called from some pages.

userbar.php – The XHTML was done for this section of the page.

header.php – This page was done, contains the website header.

footer.php – The footer was done, contains menu links and copyright information.

format.css – The CSS for the menu, and some of the footer was completed.

Image holders – Image holders were done, these are made to the size of the images so they can be placed on the site.

There have been no problems up to this stage of the project.

This is what the index page looks like at this stage.

Will