A Tough Decision
After meeting with our instructors on Monday, we came to the conclusion that it would be in the project’s best interest to pivot to a different project deliverable. Since we spent the first half of this semester ideating our experience and experimenting with different technical platforms, we do not have enough time to fully implement our project before the end of the semester. Given that the construction of the building is not yet underway, our team and instructors believe that it will be more beneificial to wrap up our project as a preproduction package, such that it can be passed on to another ETC team next semester. That team will use our work as a springboard to fully develop and polish the experience before its installation into the Game Portal.
Following that decision, we broke down documentation into key parts and solidified a final plan for our preproduction package. We are going to document all of our work this semester as detailed as possible to support next semester’s team in their effort to drive our experience to completion. The general outline of our documentation is:
- Abstract
- Preliminary Research
- Design Documentation
- Playtest Documentation
- Software Documentation
- Asset Pack
- Hardware Documentation
- Media
- Post Mortem
In addition to documentation of our work this semester, our team plans to re-examine the design decisions we’ve made over the past few months and determine whether those decisions were made due to time constraints or due to another reason. We believe there is ample opportunity for iteration and improvement over some aspects of our experience that we were not able to complete because of time constraints. We intend to pass along our lessons, pitfalls, and “what if-s” alongside our techncal documentation, such that the future team may be able to explore paths that we could not.
Video Trailer Draft
A key part of our team’s production package, the video trailer will concisely communicate our project, goals, and work throughout the semester and serve as a reference for future GKTW project teams (similar to the resources we found Weeks 1-2). We are excited to share with you a draft of our final video trailer!