XML Tree Structure
Just like writing a paper, it is important to establish organization and an outline in any project. A tree seemed like the best way to start to visualize and track the flow of the game. With this tree, I can start building the model from the root and it helps me organize my ideas as the layers get more in depth. A tree shows the relationship between a parent element and its children so it is not perfect for this kind of model. In this case, it is important to accurately label everything so we can keep track of which elements are part of multiple different systems/parents. XML is a language used to store and transport data; in this case it is used to transport data in the form of a tree. The code was written in a simple text editor and saved in a .txt file. A separate program is required to run the file which requires its own code. I do not have the code but the program used was on the free website www.xmlviewer.org where I can easily input the file text and output the tree. From there, I can take a picture of the tree and display it.
~Ryan Anderson, Graduate Student
The client has meet and discussed the game framework base on our interviewing sessions. The revised structure can be viewed by taking the xml structure and pasting it into this viewer.