{"id":296,"date":"2026-03-20T00:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/?p=296"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:03:26","slug":"week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Boss Fight Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Changes to UI, Added More Puzzles, Playtests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We introduced additional puzzles after observing that players responded positively to the puzzle elements in our game. We continued refining these puzzles through playtesting to ensure they felt engaging rather than frustrating. After implementing these changes, fewer players attempted to break the game and instead engaged with it as intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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=\"522\" data-id=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131734-1-1024x522.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131734-1-1024x522.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131734-1-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131734-1-768x391.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131734-1-1536x783.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131734-1-2048x1044.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=\"564\" data-id=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131827-1024x564.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131827-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131827-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131827-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131827-1536x845.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-04-13-131827.png 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We also added an interactive map UI, allowing players to rotate and explore it more freely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"442\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Recording-2026-04-13-132254.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boss Fight Design Changes to UI, Added More Puzzles, Playtests We introduced additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/quake-quack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}