2nd Playtest
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 …
Category: Research
1st Playtest with Kids
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 …
The Market Space
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 …
Marble Kids Museum
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 …
To Prototype or To Iterate
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 …
Sesame Street Smarts
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 …
Everything’s a Fruit!
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 …
Why Pad?
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 Problem
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 …