MASSIVE Update!

December 6th
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After speaking with Pierre today, we looked over the idea of the `dual Guitar Hero' thing, and we looked several other possibilities. Those being the following:

• Swiping piles of money upwards (at the cashier) to get to the correct amount, depending on the article purchased.
• doing the double tapping game, half money, and half phone convo which i previously referred to as "double guitar hero".
• The idea Pierre came up with as a possible alternate solution was to answer the cashier's questions, and answer the person over the phone at the same time, and depending on what you answer, you could get discounts or lose some more.

December 8th

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I've checked with not only my sister and a handful of her friends to see which of the options would give a better result, but while I did so, I did a little bit of research, and found out that women, inherently have much better multitasking skills than men do. In general, a woman can concentrate almost fully on two tasks simultaneously with MUCH less difficulty than a majority of men. Since my game is aimed at 13-18 year old girls, i looked at my options and figured that dealing with the double-guitar-hero minigame would be the best of the three options, which was confirmed for me later on by a majority of her friends (4/5 of them + my sister). They ALSO confirmed that the idea of my game was cool, but they didn't get why i was putting Zombies into the game, and i made the decision (with their advice) to just make the enemies Crazy Deal-Hunting Shoppers.

Links supporting my research:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7896385/Scientists-prove-that-women-are-better-at-multitasking-than-men.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2068519/Women-really-ARE-better-multi-tasking-men--working-mothers-spend-half-day-doing-things-once.html

December 9th

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With the end of the project nearing, i've decided to post a couple of screenshots of my progress to date:

UPDATE 12/9/2011

After speaking to Pierre, i decided to close off the mall and try to  limit where the player can go, because it was too open ended.

This is the present top-view of the map and what's  been done to limit the  access.

Here is the layout of the beginning of the minigame i'll be showing.