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It’s Alive!

As of now, you can download an app to scan your hard drive’s fragmentation, then upload the file to add it to the game. Keen, eh?

Proposal Submitted

My project director is passing my proposal off to the Graduate Committee today. It’s an odd way they have things put together, where the proposal isn’t due until after the project is well underway, and you don’t actually have to change the project based on your proposal feedback. You just have to address that feedback in your presentation and in the final response paper. Oh well. Just a few more hoops to jump through.

On the technical side, I’m getting Flash Remoting with PHP up and running so that the game can look at a MySQL database to get the drive map data. I should have an updated draft of the game uploaded to the “game” section soon as well.

Proposal Underway

It seems that in focusing on a technically functional project, I should have been focusing on the paperwork first. I’m now in the midst of hammering out my official proposal for this project. It’s mostly a formality, but I’ve been convinced that it’ll also be helpful in getting some of my more abstract ideas together before I really attack the last leg of this thing. Once the proposal is completed and submitted to the university, I’ll post it here as well.

Will We Wii?

I’m attempting to work out exactly how to make the game playable on the Wii. I know I have to publish it for Flash 7. The rest I’m still researching. Just need to get those button presses into the game and I’ll be set.

Mapper outputting… something!

Good News on the Drive Mapping application. I now have it outputting 1′s and 0′s to a text file to indicate the presence or absence of data. It’s something of a mess, but it DOES work, so that’s better than nothing.

The Thesis that wasn’t a Thesis

Technically this isn’t a thesis.  It’s a “Masters Project.”  There’s a “project” component and the paper that goes with it is much slower.  It’s much easier to say “I’m working on my thesis” though, so that’s what we do.

This site will host the project as it evolves in addition to documenting the process and publishing support materials. Once it’s ready for prime-time, the blog will shift from the front page to something a little less prominent.   Wish me luck!