COMP 310 Fall 2016	Demo Day Instructions

At least one team member must be present during the entire Demo Day time period.  The staff will not run your game for you.   It if far better if all team members are present.

There will be multiple tables set up in the Demo Day location, holding 6-10 teams each.   The number of tables will be determined by the number of staff members that are available on Demo Day as each table will have one staff member.   Each table will be designated "A", "B", "C", etc.

Procedure:   

• Each team, including the staff, will take a turn at running their game server.  
• Everyone else at the table, including the game server's team, if they have a free laptop and/or they are able to simultaneously run a server and a client, will run their game client and connect to the game server to play the game.
• While the game is being played or immediately thereafter, each game client player will fill out the evaluation survey on the game (see below).
• The game will be played until a winner is established.

Game Evaluation Survey

The game evaluation survey is on-line in Canvas as a survey.   There is a survey dedicated to each table.  

• You will only be submitting the survey for your table!

• EVERYONE running a client submits a survey for that game!

• A survey is ALWAYS submitted for ALL games, even if everything is non-operational on either the client or the server side.   If something is non-operational, give it a zero rating.

• You will be making one submission for each game that is evaluated.   You will be making multiple submissions to the same survey.

• The "client" team is ALWAYS your own team!

A new survey submission must be created for every game client player for every game that is played.

Submit your user manual as an attachment to the Piazza discussion thread for your table.

The Demo Day survey asks general, game-independent questions that cover issues such as, but not limited to:

• Game initialization
  • Connecting to the game server
  • Joining a team
  • Starting the game
  • Showing the map and other game controls
• Game operation
  • Operation of game controls
  • Map navigation and other controls
  • Game progression
  • Team collaboration
  • Mid-game notifications
  • Win/Lose execution and notification
• Quality of the user manual
• Comments on initialization, game play, server behavior, etc.

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