{"id":461,"date":"2022-11-21T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/?p=461"},"modified":"2023-01-23T01:36:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T01:36:11","slug":"week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8: Playtest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-7-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We spend most of the week preparing for the major update of our game: Build v2. It has a big update on the UI graphics, some new levels including a binary-exploitation level, and sound effects for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Then we playtested this version of the game on ETC playtest day with a group of middle school students, high school students, and adults. Different groups have different feelings about the game but we are glad to see that the main target audience: high school students are giving positive feedback.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:1094px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-8-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Development: A Major Build Update:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"webgl_iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; vr\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allowvr=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/play.unity.com\/webgl\/d554ed03-ef96-47f9-8ce2-629f3d57ff06?screenshot=false&amp;embedType=embed\" width=\"810\" height=\"640\" onmousewheel=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h4>Update List:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Remake of old levels: some old levels have new sprites and cleaner visual style<\/li><li>Newly added level: a binary exploitation level that has a brand new game mechanism and multiple tutorial levels for the player to understand the basic gameplay<\/li><li>Sound\/Implementation: we added sound effects when players were dragging cards and for other interactions<\/li><li>Renovated UI system: the UI visuals were redesigned with richer and more in-themed graphics <\/li><li>Animations and new sprites<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:1192px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-7-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Playtest Day:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3481-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3481-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3481-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3481-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3481-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3481-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3477-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3477-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3477-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3477-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3477-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_3477-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:27px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4>Preparation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We went to a playtest workshop on Monday to learn about how to conduct playtest in a professional way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then for the playtest, we made pre-play and post-play surveys to measure how playtesters felt about the topic before and after playing our game. We also designed and printed out a paper version of game tutorials for the playtester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also standardized our interview questions for the playtesters so that our game designer can collect data in a more scientific way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Feedback<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On the playtest day, we have run 15 playtesting sessions with 9 middle school students, 3 adults and 3 high school students. They received the game differently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we were glad to see that our major target audience &#8211; high school students loved the game and could understand the concept behind it and definitely would love to try more difficulty levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the playtest day was on Saturday, we would analyze the data <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:979px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-8-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Other<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We also had a meeting with Jesse Schell this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesse Scheel feedback: Some of the interactions were not clear and confusing. Also, he mentioned another game that Schell Games made for us to reference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This game called Ink Blott Underground features finding pieces of words and gluing them together to solve puzzles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ink_screenshot_1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ink_screenshot_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ink_screenshot_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ink_screenshot_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ink_screenshot_1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-8-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Next Steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our plans for next will be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Summarize playtest day feedback<\/li><li>Story<\/li><li>Inter-puzzles between major game mechanisms<\/li><li>Another level of implementation of reverse engineering<\/li><li>Character Design<\/li><li>VFX Polishment<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}