{"id":567,"date":"2026-04-17T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/?p=567"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:57:35","slug":"week-13-apr-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/week-13-apr-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 13 – Apr. 17th: Restructuring!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where do we go?
when we walk this path,
it all comes down to…<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We’re almost at the end! Doubly so because next week we have to focus on creating a Unity package of our work, creating a video of the game, and of course, making our final presentation. CMU currently does 14 week semesters, and at the ETC every project does their Final presentation either on the Monday or Tuesday of CMU’s finals period, the week after those 14 weeks. So that’s our theoretical “15th” week, but I think next week’s blog post I will simply detail how we are wrapping up, and include the recording of that final presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this is my second to last post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, we’re really just focused on finishing up M\u00e9rida. Last week, I mentioned that we finished the tutorial scene, and so far, it’s been working great! Not only does it get people used to the space before the multi-perspective rendering, it has also been handy as essentially a title screen. We just leave it running while we set people up and do the intro. And then they can choose to start it whenever they are ready!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned last week as well that this was our current game progression flow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that we were looking to refine it. That is something we did this week! Basically, we simplified it, cut an item, the Phone – which essentially had the same functionality as the flower – and funneled both paths into the final decision of Rock or Ring. Now, players must experience every item, before they get their final choice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ivy also created this wind shader to add some motion to these papel picados that decorate our scene! It’s pretty darn cool:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can also see some moving cars Jos\u00e9 added. They do a lot to make the scene feel more alive, especially since we don’t have any people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s all for this week! We’re going to film a playthrough of the game, which I’ll include in the blogpost so you can see the whole thing! I’ll also put our final presentation there when it happens the week after! See you then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where do we go?when we walk this path,it all comes down to… We’re almost at the end! Doubly so because next week we have to focus on creating a Unity package of our work, creating a video of the game, and of course, making our final presentation. CMU currently does 14 week semesters, and at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devlogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/torchbearer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}