{"id":115,"date":"2026-02-06T21:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/?p=115"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:02:17","slug":"week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Week 4 began with the designers sitting down with the intention of coming up with several puzzle designs. This is our biggest roadblock due to its complexity. How do you come up with a puzzle for young audiences that also teaches them the abstracted basics of programming while simultaneously asking them to use a unique, novel interface, all while getting them to work together in a team of 2?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a daunting task, but this design session was a good step in the direction, as we were able to design 2 levels, with concepts in the work for a few more. Our goal is to create only a handful of levels, due to time constraints on us, as well as the audience, who will be asked to wear uncomfortable wired glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After positive feedback from our advisor and clients, we are going ahead with developing our first level to see how it plays. Our next steps involve playtesting these levels once they\u2019re ready and iterating the methods of interaction based on those playtests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our programmers also presented a simple demo of how the levels will play, including cards that obey logic signs like they will in the final product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-17-1024x560.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-17-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-17-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-17-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-17.png 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, they\u2019re working on making it interactive and multiplayer! By the end of next week we hope to have a playable first level, which will make development of subsequent levels much easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 4 began with the designers sitting down with the intention of coming up with several puzzle designs. This is our biggest roadblock due to its complexity. How do you come up with a puzzle for young audiences that also teaches them the abstracted basics of programming while simultaneously asking them to use a unique, [&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-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/it-takes-two-alices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}