User:K.saunders/enes100/poppit

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Problem Statement
What are some some ways to chunk poppit?

Team Members

 * K
 * E
 * F

Summary
Things I did to chunk poppit:
 * pop from the bottom to the top to start the game.
 * Pop clusters below to line up balloons horizontally.
 * clear columns to rejoin separate sections.
 * Work from the edges in.
 * Balance popping across board.
 * Use PIN and WEIGHT items when received.

Story
In my process to chunk Poppit I first started by thinking of strategies before I actually played the game. I Then played a few times and noticed that my previous strategies were purely random. I then went back to brainstorming and thought in more basic/simple terms of the game. This produced more of guidelines and worked well at producing few balloons left. I ended up playing the game 50 times testing my "chunks" and lowered my average to 18.33 balloons left. Statistics behind class trials can be found at: [|GROUP STATISTICS]

Material List

 * Google Chrome
 * Engineer's notebook

Software List

 * Poppit add-on for Google Chrome

Time

 * 2-5 minutes per game
 * Collectively played 100 games

Tutorials
A few tips our team developed while chunking the poppit game are as follows:
 * Play the game a few times BEFORE thinking of possible strategies. This helps you get a feel for the game before brainstorming and produces more playable strategies.
 * Play LOTS of games. Just because a strategy may produce on good score or may pop all of the balloons, doesn't mean it is a good strategy. We recommend that at least 10 games be played in order to find a good average balloon count after the game.
 * Develop more basic/simple strategies before diving too deep into a game plan. Put together patterns that lead to good results and combined them into one strategy later.

Next Steps
Our next steps to further the Poppit project would include
 * Compare our averages to the overall average of the group
 * Compare which chunking method worked the best on average
 * Once the best method is discovered, tweek it more by alternating working from bottom to top or small chunks to big chunks, etc.
 * Write code for Poppit

Repeatablitly
We have just scratched the surface of this project and repeating our results will be quiet easy.

Give instructor top 3 project choice list

 * Steam Engine
 * Rube Goldburg
 * Ruberband Machine Gun

Write problem statement
Find a better way of chunking balloons in poppit to ensure you pop all the balloons every game.

Task(s) Completed
Play Poppit several times and record statistics. Break down game into simple strategies. Create one main strategy and write it in your engineers notebook.

Compare actual work done to Task1
I played 50 games and recorded a strategy in my notebook.

Week1 Narrative
After playing many games with my Mini strategies and guide lines I was able to produce an average of 18.3. A fairly low average number of balloons left.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.