110922 Act I "Design A Pep Ring"/Consolidation and More

28 weeks (approximately 1/2 year) to go!

Allen, Ellen, Erik, Melissa, Sean & Wei-Hwa attended.

PUZZLE STATUS

11 unclaimed 19 prototype development 5 revising prototypes 3 final polishing 1 final verification (1 polished sample complete)--our first...woo hoo! 0 building multiple copies

Dwight has updated Core Dump 1 and we'll test it in near future. Erik has enhanced the flavor text of Wei-Hwa's sign-in maze (for the start of Act II). Justin is hard at work on Art History. Ellen is taking a look at Sheet Music, seeing if she wants to join that effort. (See below for others....)

INDIVIDUAL STATUSES

Allen--only got through first third of script. Top priority for upcoming week: revising Act II of script; helping the video team to move forward; helping Shoresh to move forward with set design.

Ellen--Top priority for upcoming week: create a consolidated list of all of our Game's sound reinforcement/sound effect needs; start design on Overheard Conversations.

Erik--revised Act I/III PowerPoint presentation, text for maze (see above), full prop list for teachers' lounge (with Melissa). Top priority for upcoming week: more revisions to PowerPoint based on this meeting's feedback; get tax ID for our legal entity.

Melissa--Top priority for upcoming week: work on Tyresias's costume; obtain prop lockers and locks.

Sean--made progress on Retrieve The Letter (but more to go). Top priority for upcoming week: draft set dressing list for principal's office; follow up with Corby of TellMe about GC phone system; sync with Lisa Long about puzzles

Wei-Hwa: prototyped "Design A Pep Ring" puzzle (which is also the basis of the Act I Consolidation puzzle); made progress on Act II Consolidation puzzle. Top priority for upcoming week: drafting Peach Frontier and Ethereal Endways logos, revising Trenchwood Institute logo (which interacts with the Act II Consolodation puzzle); associated puzzles

ALL TEAM MEMBERS: If you have time to work on the project this week, you are welcome and encouraged to email your top priority task for the week to Allen. He'll include in the combined list. If you have time, but don't know what to do, then email Allen--he'll then have the team come up with suggestions at the next meeting.

STATUS

Sets--No news

Props--no news on science fair projects, portable tachyon detector, or high school newspapers. Melissa saw some lockers that had built-in locks. This would necessitate switching Prof. Chronos's prop from a bolt cutter to a crowbar...but either should clank nicely when dropped by Chronos at the very beginning of Act II.

Locations--No news

Graphics--No news on remaining logos

Video--No news; producer Sarah is back from Europe; Allen will meet with her to help her to jump start the efforts.

Web Sites--No news...waiting on logo designs.

COSTUMES

Melissa led brainstorming discussion of Tyresias's costume (played by Sean).

SOUND DESIGN

This was new member Ellen's first meeting. So we took the opportunity to review all aspects of her expertise (sound) throughout the Game. Also discussed the current status of Overheard Conversations.

PLAYTESTING

We had a very productive test of Wei-Hwa's "Design A Pep Ring" puzzle. It worked well and will serve as the basis of both the puzzle early in Act I and that Act's consolidation puzzle.

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As always, please respond with any corrections, revisions, amplifications, etc. on my notes.

Allen