Status Report 3

This week we started working on the graphics and animations including the backgrounds and buttons. We also started to plan out how we were going to store the information for the buttons. We were thinking of doing it one of two ways, one way to do it would be to have a class with methods that when called would make different patterns of buttons so we would call the patterns instead of each individual button when we constructed the songs. Another way to do it would be to have separate text files with patterns like
0010
1000
0010
0000
0100
so for every 1 there would be a note and the four columns each represents a different color and we could just read off the txt file. We would control the speed of the notes by changing a beats per minute variable depending on the song. We are using stepmania as a guide to set up our game and get some of our ideas.