{"id":421,"date":"2022-03-18T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ar-viation\/?p=421"},"modified":"2022-03-23T14:46:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:46:53","slug":"week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ar-viation\/week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coming back from Spring Break, we were able to schedule a playtesting session with Assemble <\/a>on Week 9 (thanks to John Balash!), and so our focus during this week was setting up a version of the game that we can playtest with these kids to test every aspect of the experience (the app, the manuals, the markers, etc.). We want to go beyond a paper playtest – as we should, given how much time there’s left -, and thus worked extensively on getting everything ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was therefore a week of coordinating<\/strong>, communicating<\/strong>, and planning ahead<\/strong>, especially considering that our co-producer Xiaoying will be out of town next week for Game Developers Conference (GDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storyboarding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After our halves presentation, we received a lot of feedback from faculty that both reinforced our own ideas of changes and improvements we want to implement, and which pointed out to us which aspects of our project were still vague and needed to be more concrete by this point. Among these is the development of the app, which needs to go from demo sections to an integrated, functioning prototype. Additionally, we need to make sure that our manuals and the stage of the experience they represent works as intended for kids within out target demographic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To guarantee all team members were on the same page regarding the flow and needs of our experience, and to be as prepared as we can be for playtesting next week, we had a session of storyboarding<\/strong> (the first we have really done), and it was extremely helpful. It showed us which aspects of the experience were still undefined, where we had different ideas that needed to be unified, etc. At the end of the session, we were able to assign tasks and set priorities for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Experience storyboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A few updates on our work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n