Capstone Changes 3

Because of circumstances that are neither the fault of myself or Charles we are no longer working together unfortunately. Which means my idea of an independent study doing a card game is out the window as well. It sucks but fortunately my capstone did not rely heavily on that card game. And it gives me more of a chance to work on writing the actual story that the website I'm working on is hosting. I'd still like to do a kind of character cards as a sort of "give away" at the capstone presentation but we'll see what happens.

Also because I'm no longer doing the card game, and need the illustrations next semester, I know have time to commission someone I know to do some work. I was reluctant to do so before because I was afraid of how long it would take for her to finish them, and if they would get finished on time. It'll be expensive (about $30 per stand alone person) but its good quality and I can use them for the give away bio cards and possible a cut out (which will cost me more I'm sure).

Capstone Timeline

Doing my timeline was a bit tricky because my capstone isn't going to be until the next fall, I took this class a semester early. So I figured that during the rest of this semester I would try to get many of the story elements of my website done, such as profiles, descriptions, character maps and such. I also would like to secure my capstone mentor early which, depending on their advice on how to structure and code my website, might change the last couple of weeks of my timeline for this semester.

The next semester is focusing almost solely on doing a major part of my, and my partner Charles', capstone which is a card game. Through advice from Beth I'm doing it as an independent study so I had to make a timeline for it anyway. Its possible that during the winter break I might do most of my research on other card games, which will give me an idea of where to go with this one since I'm not a big player of card games.  By doing this I can bump up my independent study schedule by one to two weeks.

Capstone Changes 2

The major fear I had for the moment when it came to working with someone else on this has been realized! There was a bit of miscommunication between myself and Charles about when the other was going to graduate. He will be doing his capstone in the spring. I won't until next fall.

Luckily it seems that using the content of someone elses capstone isn't frowned upon as long as you have permission and do something yourself, not just take theirs and say its yours too. So after talking to Beth I have a course of action! Next semester I'm going to do an independent study with her, focusing mostly on getting the card game together but also maybe dabbling in a small website and possibly making some tweaks to my story.

I love this idea because not only does it give me a sorely needed 400 lvl class but it also takes the stress of figuring all that out off of Charles. I was going to help of course but having this as a "class" gives me the time to focus on it instead of just helping, so now he can just focus mostly on the art he wants to draw. I don't know much about card games but I guess I'm going to learn!