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Just started thinking about the project, not too sure what I can do. Still waiting for the processor board which took TWO WEEK!!!! just to get it sent, so may take another few days to get here. Littlebirdelectronics was a very bad choice thanks to their slow speed and very bad customer service, they only sent out my boards because I complained that it has not arrived yet!!

Proof of how I failed

Here is step by step of how I set up php on my home computer, but at the end of the day I failed... Not too sure why, everything worked fine until the last step, where i got an error message. I think there may be a firewall blocking the php.


































Bottom line...

Avatars

Here are some example of avatars from other application, our game will be dealing heavily on the idea of having a virtual self in a game.


They are, PS3's Home, Second Life and WII

Concept

The group decided to create a game that promotes "fitness", while we were actually bouncing ideas back and forth within our group, we actually came up with a concept that we all agreed with.

The concept:

In this game a player gets to choose a virtual avatar, and what happens is that any physical exercise (Running, Jogging or even walking) will level this character up. So whenever a player is going for a walk or a run, they just whip out the PDA, let the game know that they are going to go for an exercise, and the PDA will record the distance and average speed and convert it into experience for the player's virtual avatar.

It is still undecided what the player is leveling the avatar for, it could be fighting, picking up chicks, and so on...

So imagine when Rocky went for a run, training for a Fight, but this time you are training your avatar for an event that is yet to be decided.

We decided to make this game for over 20's who are not necessarily gamers, so usability may be a big factor in the creation process. We are also thinking of integrating some interesting satires on past and current games for example random encounters from traditional role playing games, Anime like characters from Japaneses fighting game... etc

Debriefing

Here is the link to my debriefing PDF:

http://www.ozosil.com/PDF/Silard%20312%20Concept%20final.pdf

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