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Week 7
We keep preparing for halves while developing the games at the same time to prepare for our playthrough. Leading up to the presentation, we met with our instructors to review our slides, discuss our progress, and prepare to communicate our design decisions. We focused on explaining how our technical experiments and playtesting findings shaped the…
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Week 6
Preparing for halves, we made a slide structure. From our instructor meeting, we improved it by organizing it into 3 parts: Tech, Visual Design, and Game Design. We decided to talk about how each part has iterated and what we decided as our current direction. For design, we wish to utilize the room more, and…
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Week 5
This week, we finalized our team photo: During meeting we discussed: For design, we did physical playtests on three games: passing a ball, ghost hunting, and bomb defusal. Even without tech, we hope to use a simple 2D camera, a screen, and paper to playtest some prototypes. These are the puzzle ideas we selected to…
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Week 4
Reshaping our experience, this week we focused on brainstorming party game ideas, as well as working with body tracking tech. Filling the sheet with ideas, we finally decided on our top 3: We also tried to work with the orbbec camera again to get body tracking working, but it was really weird and funky –…
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Week 3
Quarters This week, we prepared for quarters with paper prototypes, worked on our storyboard, and tried showing the room through Tilt Five. We also got valuable feedback on our art direction from our advisor. Goals for This Week Getting Ready for Quarters To prepare for quarters, we made paper prototypes and walked through the puzzles…
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Week 2
Connecting the Pieces This week, we spent more time on puzzle ideas and how the two rooms could interact. We also started looking at how the puzzles, story, and tech fit together. Some of our early ideas brought up questions we still need to work through. What We Worked On Explored puzzle ideas and different…
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Week 1
Finding Our Direction For our first week, we spent some time getting to know each other and figuring out what we wanted to make. We met with our advisors, talked through some early ideas, and joined the playtest workshop. Goals For This Week Exploring Our Direction Our advisors were pretty open about what we could…