Category: Weekly Blog

April 21 – 26, 2024 As we approach the end of the semester, it’s time to showcase our accomplishments to faculty and other stakeholders. This week, we created a comprehensive slideshow presentation that encapsulated our journey from the semester’s start. It detailed how we selected our project direction, encountered and overcame failures, shifted topics, and…

April 15 – 19, 2024 Based on the feedback and lessons learned from the playtest day, we continue to refine the details of the final deliverables. In terms of art, we have adjusted the facility tokens to enhance the experience. Regarding design, we are focusing on revising tutorials to clarify the game and improve the…

Apr 7 – 12, 2024 On the playtest day, there were 12 groups of adult guests visiting our game, and we harvested a lot of feedback. Based on their reaction, there are several point to conclude: Based on the conclusion, we planned our next step: We have written a new script for the soft opening…

Apr 1 – 5, 2024 We planned on having a playtest of the whole session at Wednesday’s instructor meeting. Before that, we are doing subtle iteration, assets refinement and fabrication. Besides the board game itself, we are also making the slideshow including the tutorial at the beginning and the takeaways at the end. We did…

Mar 25 – 29, 2024 At the beginning of this week, based on feedback from last week’s playtest, we combined research and player experience to iterate on values such as the initial trash cards and tokens each country has, as well as the amount of money needed to build recycling pipelines. We also created a…