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 …
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 …
iPad games for the pre-K to K demographic is a very competitive market space at the moment. This means that there are a lot of examples for the team to look at, but moreover that the outstanding games in this …
Today, one of our programmers, Michael, visited the Marble Kids Museum in Raleigh, NC to learn about our demographic. The museum is aimed at young children, and is designed to facilitate learning through play and interaction. The Museum had exhibits …
Up to this point, the question of whether or not the team would be prototyping multiple game designs or iterating on a single game design was up in the air. Originally, the team came into the semester interested in the …
Our producer, Albert, visited the Sesame Workshop in NYC today to get advice about design. He asked them about such things as their own experiences with whether or not kids ages 4-6 prefer: A world populated by adult or children …
Content, while not the main focus of our team, is still important to have defined for the game we will be making, and the team has decided to make our game about: Where does most food actually come from (a …
The team has settled on developing games for the iPad. How did we get to such a specific choice? First, our target demographic (ages 4-6) cannot reliably use more complex interfaces like keyboards and mice; therefore we want to develop …
The team will be tackling a very specific issue: The early literacy gap between kids from upper/middle-class families and those of impoverished families. Our client, Susan Neuman, has conducted research that demonstrates the existence of a knowledge gap between to those …