{"id":522,"date":"2025-04-26T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/?p=522"},"modified":"2025-04-26T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:29:54","slug":"week-14-the-final-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/week-14-the-final-lap\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 14: The Final Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you believe we&#8217;re in the final week? It was such a wonderful semester! We&#8217;re looking forward to our final presentation and postmortem. This week, we returned to Westinghouse Academy to playtest our new and more complete version of the game. We are also making some last-minute UI edits and collecting our thoughts on production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Westinghouse Academy Playtest:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back at Westinghouse Academy, we got a playtest with our SME SoulMan IT, and some students that we played with last time. We were very happy too see them welcome us back and play the game with more confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The key thing that we noticed was that the students liked playing the different writing modes and appreciated the music. They remembered some of the weaknesses and audience preferences but that didn&#8217;t stop them from enjoying the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5711-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5711-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5711-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5711-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5711-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5711-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UI Edits:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the final things we wanted to rush to put in the game were a station menu and some feedback popups that will appear during the rap battle stage. Most players were confused by our placeholder UI, and this clears up the start of the game more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3a88641f wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"891\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2-891x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2-891x1024.png 891w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2-768x882.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2.png 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-1024x592.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3.png 1444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">With More Time:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our 3D artist was also experimenting with a shader to connect the 3D characters with the 2D images and UI. Unforunately, we don&#8217;t have enough time to fully implement this into the game because it might impact some other visual components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3a88641f wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-1024x594.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-1024x594.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-768x446.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-1536x891.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-2048x1188.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-1536x853.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/mic-check\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-2048x1138.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Steps:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay tuned for our postmortem and final presentation! 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