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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 conduct our second round of playtesting in the upcoming week. But on Tuesday a surprising opportunity arose – ETC’s Director of Educational Engagement John Balash let us know that on Wednesday a group of middle school students is going to tour the ETC and they are interested to visit ETC project rooms and help us playtest our experience. Therefore we decided to speed up the development and managed to finish a fully playable build by Wednesday and successfully conducted our second playtest.
In this first playable demo students can:
On Wednesday we conducted our second round of playtest with 5 groups of middle school students and each playtest consisted of four steps:
And to summarize our findings:
This playtest gave us a lot of confidence in our direction and the feedback we received from students proved a lot of our assumptions. We will further discuss our findings during this playtest and start preparing for halves presentation next week.