{"id":306,"date":"2026-03-23T19:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/?p=306"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:29:10","slug":"week-1-jan-12-jan-18-project-kickoff-narrative-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/week-1-jan-12-jan-18-project-kickoff-narrative-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 (Jan 12 \u2013 Jan 18) \u2014 Project Kickoff &amp; Narrative Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"829\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png 829w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week marked the official start of the project. The team focused primarily on narrative exploration and preliminary research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We conducted extensive research on the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, reviewing a wide range of references to ground our story in reality. The writing team completed the first draft of the opening section of the script, establishing an initial narrative framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the design side, we began early level design explorations based on the emerging story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art &amp; Tech Art:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tech art initiated fracture and destruction effect tests<br>Environment art began modeling the first batch of base assets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, this week transitioned the project from concept to a more actionable direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marked the official start of the project. The team focused primarily on narrative exploration and preliminary research. We conducted extensive research on the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, reviewing a wide range of references to ground our story in reality. The writing team completed the first draft of the opening section of the script, establishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/grey-waves-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}