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Hello! This will be the last blog post before our Post Mortem. This post will cover our preparation for our final presentation, including our slide distribution. Below is a copy of our final presentation. General Slide Distribution (As of April 29) Slides 1 – 5: General Project Information Slide 6: Gameplay Video Slides 7 – 17: …
Hello! This blog post will be covering Week 13 (4/18 – 4/22). The main focus of this week was our Softs presentation and getting feedback on how we are finalizing the project for our final presentation. Softs Going into Softs, we had two main points of focus for the team: accessibility and transformation. Accessibility We have been looking …
Hello! This week (spanning from April 11th to April 15th) was our last week before our Softs presentation. This meant our primary goals for this week were Polishing our Game, Polishing our Website, and Preparing our Final Vision. Polishing our Game We have known for a while the shape we wanted our game to be in for Softs, …
Hello! This week only consisted of three core days due to CMU’s Spring Carnival happening from Thursday through the weekend. Our primary goal was to consolidate feedback from playtest day and plan out our next steps, especially the steps leading to Softs. I’ll break down some of the feedback and how we are responding to …
April Playtest And CMU Playtest Day Hello! This week was focused on completing our build for the ETC’s Playtesting Day on April 2nd. Below are some of the photos taken during the event of the groups that came through for playtesting. We want to thank everyone from inside the ETC and guests to the ETC …
Hello! This week was a very productive week for our team in terms of our prototypes and what we were able to show to faculty. We were able to meet with our Faculty Consultant, Heather Kelley, to playtest a physical version of our game. The physical prototype had two main features: the tutorial phase, which …
Week 9: March 25, 2022 – Playtesting With Faculty Read More »
Hello! This post will cover everything from spring break through the end of week 8 (March 18th). Spring BreakDuring spring break, we did not put in dedicated development time. However, we were able to do a bit of research by going shopping in person. Em and James went to the Monroeville Mall to check out …
Week 8: March 18, 2022 – Spring Break + Iteration After 1/2s Read More »
This week was focused around preparation for, execution of, and reflecting on our 1/2s presentation. We were able to reserve the RPIS for a rehearsal, where we did a full run-through of our presentation. Additionally, we worked with our advisor, Dave, to talk through all of our slides. We found the meeting extremely productive and …
Hello! Our main goals this week were to analyze our prototypes to see what we wanted to iterate on and to prepare for our 1/2s presentation. We felt that the prototypes we had created were great starts for simplistic transformations/teaching playtesters but would certainly need further development and direction before they felt like an approximation of …
Week 6: February 25, 2022 – Prototype Reflection and 1/2s Preparation Read More »
Hello! This week we had two main focuses: Arranging Subject Matter Expert (SME) meetings and fleshing out some prototypes. A few of our team members were able to meet with Olivia Robinson (textile industry SME and CMU faculty member) to gain more information about her perspective. The team found speaking with Olivia to be very beneficial …
Week 5: February 18, 2022 – SME’s and Prototypes Read More »