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We had a blast at the annual ETC Festival! We’ve hosted 24 guests playing in 12 sessions and all of them were able to complete their animated scenes without any instruction. We set up a QR Code for them to…
Project Introduction The semester we are tasked by the Alice Project to work on an collaborative experience that explores the idea of collaborative learning, as Alice is currently a single user experience that has no multi-user capabilities, and are hoping…
Intro As mentioned last week, the Middle School CS Teacher Mr. Donald Slator has graciously agreed to help us set up a class session with his students at St. David’s School. Playtest Observations We integrated our experience to the class…
Intro After consulting with CS teachers, we are now very confident in our direction as we have confirmed that we are targeting a very specific use case and our design is validated. Now what’s blocking us from getting to a…
Intro This week we’ve made a few big changes to our experience and UI. We’ve also started to think about a very important question: What’s the best use case for our experience? Is it still the same as what we…
Intro This week we had a few more playtest sessions to test our block programming phase. We’ve also added a few more Blocks to support the creation of more complex animations. More Blocks! In addition to adding real-time synchronization to…
Intro We are excited to come back from Fall break and continue to work on our project! The first thing we did after returning was review all the feedback we got from Halves. And it seems like the faculty were…
Intro It’s the halves week! Aside from preparing our slide deck and rehearsal, we decided to further spend some time polishing our build, with the goal of making the entire experience fully playable from lobby hosting to 3D Scene building.…
Intro Hi all! We have made a lot of great progress this week and we are super excited to share them with everyone. Our original plan was to finish the first playable prototype by the end of this week and…
Intro This week we spent a lot of time on design and finally locked down a complete flow of our experience for two players. Experience Breakdown The game consists of 8 Steps Picking a prompt answering who’s in the scene,…