{"id":589,"date":"2022-04-10T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/sparks\/?p=589"},"modified":"2022-04-23T01:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T01:58:48","slug":"week-11-playtest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/sparks\/week-11-playtest\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 11: Playtest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week (Apr.4 &#8211; Apr.10) is all about playtest. We had our official playtest day last Saturday and arranged for 17 playtesters of ages 20 to 50 to experience our world. We also scheduled a meeting with Ruth, our project consultant, to better get ready for the soft opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Playtest results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img width=\"661px;\" height=\"314px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/t1CA8sjstwPlZQ1OuYCUbFY9EmMgp7D4c5N5K_kn32qefpoDMnNaSqOJqWf6UJnUycjoZ89MZeOZ-F1chg25aCRYUO-cX1RkeqdfMJrKOGSibem7iXzFTh_wXrV3nGsilBR3d7D6dDBa00_ZWHMr\" alt=\"Forms response chart. Question title: How do you feel about this experience?. Number of responses: 16 responses.\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img width=\"661px;\" height=\"314px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/zb9UYWxi3uzfhyDM-eu_E5HMDnfk9zZES95bn_qt-k50ZQM46WbQBhHcfXoV05UmgXEJbqsJSnCjyb9-5wIFX1GCDUaQeRQ626Q-TyDLJ8DmpddFGkq1HxQ2X7d-K3xf3KDqYK_qb06btmDGS2qf\" alt=\"Forms response chart. Question title: How do you enjoy the experience?. Number of responses: 16 responses.\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We gladly found that most of our playtesters rated our world over 6 and found it enjoyable to spend time in it. And more than 85% of the playtesters voted for &#8220;learned something about this topic&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/2ih_Fn7gCRH_ULeaSyOZdAxB2FNzDrsxNoPtl2k7or9y6royUR6YxbnRb1An6KBIPuC_8qxZf77Pqv6EdwFFSf9NVqmq3CxHv2N6CbJbXHdqQzaQAiVji4Lism-L1WmpCbYdgMCRC0vgACoYTyTe\" alt=\"Forms response chart. Question title: Did you learn something about this topic?. Number of responses: 16 responses.\" style=\"width: 800px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also get some &#8220;negative&#8221; feedback. Half of all the playtesters felt lost wandering in the plaza and we noticed a lot of them had a hard time figuring out how to control the character and rotate the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/qiH9TW1wczPUrMMhkZvZVyH1H1OCMA1ikuJPfO7EBL1uL38aO06y5Y6aNcP0Xy-NYUUkbuE_JPy0a41M-mj8c_3tl81HHJr686p-65RoB9WADYfmRCsBEHvh7w8eEEdrNGTn9I9EgrkxqgUPNnjd\" alt=\"Forms response chart. Question title: Have you ever felt lost in the plaza?. Number of responses: 16 responses.\" style=\"width: 800px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a valuable lesson for us that not all our users are game players and they might not be familiar with the basic control for a game-like experience. We will iterate on the instruction steps at the beginning and make them more specific and also rearrange the layout of the plaza to make the 3 halls pop out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Meeting with Ruth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We scheduled a meeting with Ruth later this week and went through the experience in detail. We used the meeting to discuss extensively some UI\/UX design choices and she pointed out a lot of grammar and font problems that didn&#8217;t strike our minds before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Next Step<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The playtest day is a major milestone for our project, we built a relatively complete version of our experience and received a lot of constructive feedback. Waiting ahead of us is the &#8220;painful&#8221; process of iteration. There are tons of details for us to revise and iterate on. 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