Happy new year! The holidays are over too soon, but we're right back to working on our little project!
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
The deadline of the project is nearing in only a few days! Everyone is getting excited for the final reveal. Because of the holidays we haven't updated too much but in the next few days we'll be having the last home strech to get everything perfect for the...
Final Presentation
For the final presentation we'll be having 2 of our best speakers, Andrea and Viona (hehe). For this we'll be taking some inspiration from the first pitch but also put some new twists on it!
Behind the scenes we've also been working hard to update all the documentation so that everything is neat and ready to get delivered!
It's that time of year again, prepare for many holiday cheers and loops of mariah Carey, and at Minerva Design we also have a lot cooking this month...
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.”
Working together and helping eachother is the most crucial part in a group and when you're working in a team. What one person lacks another can help them with. As we started working more on the coding part of the project, this was held heavily.
Coding
This month we really have made some progress on the coding of the website. Because we made our design quite extensive the coding was a bit more difficult for some of us. During this we helped eachother on discord and on location with this. The pages that are done are:
Homepage
Landing page
Profile page
Premium page
Login & Signup page
For the Login and Singup we also used PHP and mySQL to let users log in and keep their account. We did this with a database. We also made sessions so that when a user logs in and refreshes the page they don't get logged out immediately.
Plans for December
This december the deadline is nearing quite fast, in almost 10 days already! So this month we're going to make the Experiences page and put everything together and host it on Hera. The points system will also be added. So there's still alot to do but we're excited and determined to get it all done!
Pitches, designing, coding and more! October has passed and Minerva Design has been busy.
"Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards."
For me reaching getting faced by a challenge is not something bad, but instead an opportunity to learn being put in front of us. So when we found out we needed to create a fully working and flow prototype, multiple pages and also test it mutliple times in a few days, We were pretty stunned.
Prototypes
When we made the first prototype, we were focusing more on the workflow of the website to make sure the layout is comprehensible for our users instead of the design itself. Our talented UX designer, Andrea made the fully working website prototype. Which can be found here. With this we we're going to test our concept and website flow. This prototype can be found here.
After the first prototype we still didn't have a fully realized design yet for our website. For this we sent our best designers, Nikita and Viona into the field. We're currently still working on this renewed design of the website and the mockups, but it is turning out to look very promisable.
Pitch
For this sprint we had to make the final pitch, of course this was very nerve wrecking at first but this is why we worked so hard on it! For this pitch we wanted to make sure the audience would be captivated and also persuaded to use our product. This is why we proof of concept in the form of plushies, clothing and snacks!
The full pitch held for Liquid plus can be found here.
Plans for November
For the next month in november, we are starting to make the base code for the website. For this we sat down to divide and define the task to put into our Minerva Design trello for Crunchyroll Beyond.
In November we will also be continuing and finishing the new Design for what Crunchyroll Beyond will look like.
Minerva Design will also be working on the Visual Novel, which is an important part of our website. The Visual Novel will be made in two parts, one will be about the base 'game' and the other part will be about the Script and flow of the Dialogue.
I hope you guys are just as excited for the development of Crunchyroll Beyond as we are at Minerva Design! Thanks for dropping by!
For this we asked in our survey to the Crunchyroll fans and see what kind of things they would like to see. We wrote them down and made a list of the rewards for Crunchyroll Beyond:
Discounts for merchandise on the Crunchyroll Store
