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Revised Game Concept

By ETC On September 21, 2012 · Add Comment

Revised Game Concept This week, we received feedback from our client about our 3 pitch ideas. They were inspired by our ideas and proposed more detailed requests: the game should feature cars and should be competitive rather than cooperative. With this feedback, we created a new a competitive car game, BattleCars. In this game, each player [...]

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Design, Pitch and Create!

By ETC On September 14, 2012 · Add Comment

What a week for the team. We completed three major milestones: designing three games, creating a presentation for the client about the games, and developing the base technology for the device-to-device connectivity. Last week, while brainstorming, the team was excited to create over 18 game ideas with different genres and game mechanics. This week we chose 3 ideas that fit [...]

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Production tools used for project management

By ETC On September 13, 2012 · Add Comment

Our team is currently in pre-production stage where we are constantly brainstorming and iterating game design. There are numerous documents, ideas to track and we are looking for the best practices to keep the team efficient in tracking tasks. So here is how we evolved our project managing tools. We started with Google [...]

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Research on Market and Technology

By ETC On September 7, 2012 · Add Comment

The team researched 3 topics: Characteristics of smart devices. Characteristics of US mobile users Characteristics of U.S. mobile gamers We uncovered several ideas that we thought would be helpful for our project. Of particular importance were: Despite popular opinion, the majority of mobile gaming is done from home, rather than while commuting (53% of mobile gaming [...]

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Visiting Infinite Z

By ETC On September 5, 2012 · Add Comment

Last Thursday, we had a field trip to Infinite Z, an awesome startup who is building a revolutionary, immersive, interactive 3D environment for computing, creating, communication and entertainment. Their invention “zSpace” delivers a highly realistic holographic visualization which will allow the engineers, architects and designers to work with their designs in a way not possible [...]

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Inspired and fired up to create an awesome game!

By ETC On August 31, 2012 · Add Comment

Six brilliant minds have gathered at EA to create a mind blowing mobile game! They are – Nora Bastida, Daniel Hausmann, Sun-Moon Hwang, Dan-Ah Kim, Mohan Subramanian and Xiyuan Zero Liu. First was the orientation. We were honored to be doing a project at EA where the environment was just fascinating and perfect for developing. [...]

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