{"id":291,"date":"2025-12-08T00:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/?p=291"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:15:10","slug":"week-14-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/week-14-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 14 &#8211; Festival!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Festival and finals approaching, Week 14 became one of the most intense weeks of the semester. Our work focused on two major tracks: <strong>finalizing the experience<\/strong> and <strong>finishing the full documentation package<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Experience Polishing &amp; Final Integration<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After Soft Opening, we shifted from exploration to refinement. This week, we:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Integrated final animation presets<\/strong>, ensuring that both gods had consistent idle behaviors and expressive reactions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Resolved remaining latency-related bugs<\/strong>, especially in early rounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of the week, the full 6-minute demo could be run reliably from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Documentation Completion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This week was also dedicated to turning our exploratory work into materials the next team can build on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We completed and organized all major documents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Technical Rationale<\/strong>: finalized explanation of model choices (GPT-5 + ElevenLabs), latency trade-offs, and alternatives we tested.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Experience Design Document<\/strong>: finalized the discussion types, experience structure, and design insights from playtests.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Animation System Document<\/strong>: completed the text-to-animation pipeline and detailed required animation layers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>User Guide<\/strong>: polished instructions for running and modifying the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time the entire documentation suite existed in final form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Presentation Preparation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As the final presentation approaches, we:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reorganized slides using instructor feedback (\u201ctalk less, show more\u201d).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extracted and visualized key insights from playtests.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Built a stable presentation-version demo scene to avoid last-minute breaks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Practiced narrative flow: technical \u2192 design \u2192 experience \u2192 documentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The team also aligned on roles and speaking order for the final show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, check out our final <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SVsPsu7d15vNR--HpDdDiAiry7bWkjAF\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SVsPsu7d15vNR--HpDdDiAiry7bWkjAF\/view?usp=sharing\">trailer<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Festival and finals approaching, Week 14 became one of the most intense weeks of the semester. Our work focused on two major tracks: finalizing the experience and finishing the full documentation package. 1. Experience Polishing &amp; Final Integration After Soft Opening, we shifted from exploration to refinement. This week, we: By the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dev-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/echotrio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}