Post 07 - Post Week Four Pitch

Wednesday the 20th of October was the Product Pitch. The group gave the pitch for the '3D Activity and Design Project'. Despite preparing for the pitch, the group suffered from what can be best described as 'the jitters', which had an adverse effect on the pitch. The product was received with negative feedback and essentially rejected. The fundamental issue, which became apparent was the end product result and the feasibility of creating it out of stone (despite the product being a design piece). The product is a design and does not a physical product. Possible alternative paths for the product were discussed, such as creating an interactive 'tumbling tower' activity. This would mean that the building pieces would still need to be created, but then some how imported into a game engine. Then, pre-constructing a structure, or set of structures and making it so that any piece of the building could be moved, making it tumble. It resembles a sort of 'Jenga'TM Activity, but in a 3D space. 

This would mean that the majority of the research we have conducted will still be valid (anything regarding buildings and shapes) and is not a total loss. Adding back the game element allows for some investigating into this area, such as which game engine to use and how to create the new proposal. 

As mentioned in an earlier blog, the product proposal was emailed to Richard Stevens as we wanted to gain clarification as to whether it would be ok to make a product, which resulted in a plan. The reply was that it was ok for it to be a plan. Had we of been told that a plan was not a suitable product, I feel that we could of used the time more productively. Never the less, we are going to use the feedback we received during the pitch and create a 'Tumbling Tower' activity, inspired by Brian Larkman with his 'Jenga like' input.

We had a brief meeting after the pitch and decided that this would be a wise move. The next stage will be to wait for the feedback from the X-Stream website and go from their. A working title for the new product is the '3D Tumbling Activity'.