Halves: On Wednesday, the team gave our Half-Semester Presentation at the ETC. This was our chance to let the greater community of ETC faculty, students, and even guests know what we are doing. We received many thoughtful questions about our …
Playtest at the Thelma Lovette YMCA: The week started with a playtest at the Thelma Lovette YMCA, in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. These were kids of lower socio-economic status – we were excited to see how they responded to our prototype, …
On Monday, October 14, the team went to the Thelma Lovette YMCA for our third playtest. This was an important change of location from the Children’s Museum because now we would indeed be teaching with low-income kids, the project’s target …
Refining the Project: The team met early in the week amongst ourselves and with our faculty advisors to map out the new flow of the game as completely as possible. We also met with Susan’s team on Wednesday to clarify …
Friday, October 12 was our second playtest at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. We’ve built out a lot more of the egg slice of our game, implementing a lot of what we found the game needed from the last playtest. The …
First Playtest: On Monday, Capital Games conducted its first playtest with kids at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. Our game had seven testers, aged 3 ½ to 6. This first test was mostly focused on the physical interaction between the player …
On Monday, we had our first playtest with kids at the Children’s Museum. It was a rough build for which we had developed all of our assets in less than 2 weeks, a slice of our intended whole experience that …