This is the final blog post, there were a few troubles over the last week in terms of the performance but I am now done and just rehearsing along with finishing my essay, I’ve hit the minimum word limit and I am quite proud of it overall.

The problems I had were that the 5 minutes were not long enough for all of the tracks together, there wasn’t enough time to type everything and get it playing within the five minutes so I have to cut the whole thing down. I decided to remove the battle theme and the village theme as I liked them the least and they sounded the worst overall, it’s a shame but it was necessary to fit it all into the 5 minutes.

Rehearsals are taking a small break at the moment so I can focus on the essay but will commence again after it’s handed in.

Well this is it, it has been up and down but I am very glad it’s over!

I think this is my favourite theme to start as I am a fan of the music of most dungeons that build suspense and provide an atmosphere, the other thing was that the samples and some of the transformers actually suited the dungeon theme I am making.

The test cases for this cycle were:

• Does the track sound like a Dungeon theme?
• Does it fit in with the overall theme?
• Does it have at least 6 different transformers?
• And does it fit the full one minute?

Nothing else really to report apart from that my physics module is stressing me out and so my write up has been postponed a bit.

The second track is almost done and I’m getting ready for the next cycle, there has been a lot of trial and error with the code but I am getting there. The Zelda and Final Fantasy themes have been helping but it’s very hard to make them sound similar. I’m very much wishing I had better samples, the ones I made sound terrible but hey ho. On to the next week!

I have been making a little progress on my samples and my first minute should be done by this Thursday! I didn’t get much done this weekend because of the Global Game Jam I attended and it was one hundred percent worth it!

This will be the first Cycle of XP for software development and so the design and test cases are as follows:

• What does each transformer do and note it down? (This is over the whole cycle rather than just the end)
• Does the transformers chosen suit the samples that were chosen?
• Does the tract made fit the overall Design?

The Design will based around a title screen/ first world theme from a game.

I made some more progress with my write-up too, got about 1000 words down now and hoping to double that by Sunday!

That’s all for now!