{"id":36,"date":"2026-02-12T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/interest-curve\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:37:18","slug":"week-2-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/interest-curve\/week-2-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 Blog | Core Gameplay Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Core gameplay + art direction week: continued secondary research and converged on a replayable strategy\/decision-making structure; defined the core loop with budgeting\/resource allocation as the spine connecting banking + investing + information judgment, and broke it into an executable flow (account onboarding \u2192 monthly budgeting \u2192 events\/news \u2192 market movement \u2192 feedback\/settlement). 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