{"id":179,"date":"2024-11-18T05:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T05:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/?p=179"},"modified":"2024-11-18T05:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T05:06:52","slug":"week-10-rearing-up-for-the-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/week-10-rearing-up-for-the-big-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10: Rearing Up For The Big Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week, we shifted gears to focus on preparing content specifically for our upcoming playtest. While texturing was paused, we continued developing core assets for the main gameplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A big focus was integrating dialogue, letters, and other narrative elements. However, we realized the amount of text might overwhelm players, so we’ve divided the content into different formats: letters for personal reflections, dialogue for character interactions, and flyers\/newspapers for background information. This should help balance storytelling with gameplay and allow players to engage with the content at their own pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we prepare for playtest day this Saturday, we\u2019re excited to see how these changes impact player engagement and refine the overall experience. Stay tuned for more updates!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here you can see the Narrative Mapped out: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernie’s relationship with Sammy\/Samuel explores how Sammy’s Corner got closed down and then replaced by a Sunpennies.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Sammy’s Corner logo –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunpennies Logo and Flier –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sammy’s Corner Spices<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernie’s Relationship with Peggy explores the ups and downs of the Community Garden and how it got shut down by the government and a “Total Foods” opened up in it’s place. <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Newspaper Day 2: Talking about community gardens and victory gardens featuring Peggy’s initiative with the Lawrencefield Community Garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 3 Newspaper talks about how the Total Foods was a sign of gentrification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Total foods flier –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Letters between Peggy and Bernie talking about the Community Garden and Gloves – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernie’s relationship with Sukhvinder explores the general change in the neighborhood. <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The steel bowl and radio talks about Sukhvinder’s friendship with both Bernie and Sammy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another big reveal is Bernie’s Eviction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We created some 2D readable and UI assets for design purposes:
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For objective setting and level design we created letters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We created some notes left on boxes to guide the player to find certain objects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UI to help Player to understand indicate interactions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This week, we shifted gears to focus on preparing content specifically for our upcoming playtest. While texturing was paused, we continued developing core assets for the main gameplay. A big focus was integrating dialogue, letters, and other narrative elements. However, we realized the amount of text might overwhelm players, so we’ve divided the content into […]<\/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-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/home-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}