Supervisor Meeting - 11

Student Name: Christy McLaughlin
Supervisor: Ryan Locke
Date: 13/04/15

Agenda

• Dissertation - Ending Intro/results/discussion/conclusion
• Hand Ins - Blog, presentation and exposition
• Testing my game

Progress Report

• Spoke about dissertation. I have given Ryan a copy and he will look over it and get back to me regarding what needs altered
• I have now found out that we do not need to hand in a physical copy of our presentation and that the blog is handed in alongside our portfolio. As for the exposition, I explained my plans for that and everything seem ok with that so I do not need to worry too much about that.
• As for testing my game, I was made aware that there was no need for participant testing in my game and that this was a waste of time. Especially as it is so late in my project. I already have plenty of  criteria to use in order to produce final version of game.

Agreed Action Plan

• Blog examples of how my final exposition will ideally look - some mock-ups can go a long way. As for business cards, a suggestion was made (to save money) to purchase decent ones - which I would keep on me and hand out to those I choose and then have standard ones lying about that people can help themselves too.
• Looked quite a bit into my dissertation and got a better understanding of the 'methodology' section. It was apparent that I had too many different methods. After careful discussion it was agreed that I would remove 'case studies' and merge iterative testing with final testing but change the heading to critical evaluation.
• Me carrying out practice based research was valid for an evaluation process. I was unsure this would be the case but I am now aware and so there is no need for participant testing.

Personal Notes

It was good to get another meeting on the way as it had been quite some time since our last. I did not really get a chance to show much of my work but we discussed my dissertation mainly which has helped a lot. With the main concern of this meeting resulting in me not actually needing to test my game using participants, it means I need to re-plan my week as this was the main intention. This is not a bad thing however as it has saved me quite some time.

Revised Plan

• Go over Methodology
• Complete results (evaluation) and conclusion
• Run through whole thing to a completed state
• Blog exposition stuff
• Plan new ideas for story-telling aspect in my final game

I have a busy week ahead of me due to personal commitments however I am hoping I can achieve the revived plan.