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  • Team Post-Mortem

    Project Overview & Client Description Team StoryStudio created an interactive storytelling toolkit, including a digital tool prototype, physical interactive prototypes, storytelling guides, demo stories, an audio sound effects library and design & playtesting documentation, to facilitate interactive storytelling at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (CMP). These events would be expected to host between 50-100 people…

  • Chapter 14 -The Finale

    Week 24: April 17, 2023 – April 30, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: This week is the last week of the whole semester, and we are coming to the end of all the work, everyone is working hard to be able to make the best presentation in the Final Presentation.…

  • Chapter 13 – Guests in the story

    Week 13: April 17, 2023 – April 23, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: On Monday we had a soft opening where Drew, Shirley and Brenda came to our project room and were very pleased and impressed with the finished product. Felicia and Randi Revised UI based on Playtest Day feedback,…

  • Chapter 12 – Kingdom Carnival

    Week 12: April 10, 2023 – April 16, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: We started new documentation of Arduino; Lauren finished all Arduino boxes (sensor kits). Damian finished the shooting of our project trailer footage. Our faculty consultant Shirley Saldamarco came to our room and reviewed all things of our…

  • Chapter 11 – Candy House in the Kingdom of Stories

    Week 11: April 3, 2023 – April 9, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: We iterated and updated our UI design this week based on the results of last week’s playtest, and our programmer Yanyan was fully engaged in bug fixing this week. We also started working on our second story…

  • Chapter 10 – Cordial Invitation

    Week 10: March 27, 2023 – April 2, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: This week we have the critical playtest freshman year, so we need to refine the tool enough for our testers to have a full experience, and so far, we have a lot of unrefined features. To ensure…

  • Chapter 9 – No Man’s Sky

    Week 9: March 20, 2023 – March 26, 2023 Blog entry by Damian Xie Summary of the week: Lori has been to IAAPA, Yanyan and Damian have been to GDC last week. We clarified a number of issues with the client at Friday’s meeting (including the storybooks that can be used, the software supported, and…

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