Shorter is Better

• Removed Preview screen from Performance for the Screen to get people playing faster
  • Maintained functionality where Voice Over from Select screen delays progress.
• Lifted all copy out to data.json files
• Updated some button copy
  • Necessitated slightly modifying some spacing to keep button text from wrapping
• Additional documentation for updating Voice Overs, Videos, and copy

MoPOP install

This release contains the version of Anything Muppets installed at MoPOP. A new (untested) build of the Performance interactive is included, however the version installed at MoPOP was behaving well, so we didn't apply any updates.

• Added functionality to close and open camera
• Closing camera when not in use on Anything Muppets interactive
• Updated upgrade script to not require internet access
• Copy & minor style updates

the importance of knowing your video player

video playback was laggy and stuttering in Performance, so I have reduced the number of video file loads necessary.

There were still problems with video recording sometimes failing, I have worked to make the video recording more dependable.

I have also started including empty directories in git and the release package to assist with a smoother setup.

Second Week, Second Try

This release contains a number of minor incremental updates that were made over the course of last week, but most importantly:

• Fix for failed video recordings
• Fix for sporadic rendering issues
• Fix for syncing audio better
• Displaying full Design a Muppet video frame
• consistent attract video for Performance interactive
• per-screen timeouts added to admin screen
• warning when e-mail fails validation

Testing handoff for exhibit updates

Startup/bootstrap/README.md and Frontend/README.md are particularly helpful for setting up the touchpoints.

This release contains lots of updates for the new design. Most design changes were centered around simplification.

TODO:

• Clean up of unnecessary sharing code
• Integration of new e-mail functionality

0.7 Release Candidate II

Overview

• Overall
  • Added 'start over' button to key screens
  • Fixed click and drag bug on all buttons
  • Admin gesture moves from L to R
    • NOTE: gesture happens in top 1/2 of screen, NOT full screen, to accomodate 'start over'
  • Admin timeouts more granular (in :30 second increments)
• Performance
  • Added clip preview screen between 'select' and 'perform'
  • Visual fixes (share -> thank you transition)
• Anything Muppets
  • Removed 'type in' animation
  • Removed 'script excerpt' text

Outstanding

• Overall
  • Refine all text
  • Record and add in all VOs
  • Replace typeface with final selected secondary type
  • Finalize working of 'share' screens – do they go to Facebook/Tubmlr, or just visitor emails?
  • Connect to MoMI email script
  • Create PDF document for setup/running/maintenance
• Performance
  • Replace videos with higher-quality source files (do they exist yet?)
• Anything Muppets
  • Add in final cut of Rollie video
  • Finalize 'script' page design intent
  • Finalize workings of 'eye focus' – VO-only, add diagram, or take out?

0.5 Release Candidate 1

• Bug fixes for all apps
• New FPO VOs for each app

0.4 Beta

Overview

• Near-release candidate for each application
• Todos are mostly aesthetic, documentation-related, or enhancements:
  • Need to fix syncing of 'temp' directory
  • Complete documentation
  • Re-record template VOS

Changes

• New designs for Share screens on each app
• Robust documentation for launching and configuring
• New features and simplified configuration for Camera application
• New designs for clip selection in Performance app
• New design for Script page in Anything Muppets
• General bug + aesthetic tweaks

Performance Beta Test

02_beta_test

Updates to have all videos from top-level folder