Hello all,
The week started off with our designer finalising the design for the next scaffold likely to be placed in the Web exploitation category for now. The team got together to understand and discuss the design.
The rest of the week was filled with preparation for three upcoming major milestones spanning across week 9 and week 10,
- We have weekly builds planned for every Thursday night which we demo to our faculty instructors every friday morning. We have planned to show a polished version of scaffold 1 and may be a rough version of scaffold 2.
- We have a playtest planned at Mt.Lebanon high school as part of their computer fair where we want to playtest the hideout and first scaffold mechanics
- We have also set up individual faculty meetings with faculty who were previously associated with picoCTF 2013 and 2014 and faculty who had critical feedback for story and gameplay mechanic elements during quarters.
We are hoping to receive a lot of feedback from each of the three big events. Analysing them will help us decide our next top priority tasks.
In other news, our player robot got a major makeover!! So did a lot of animations in the first scaffold which got fine tuned over the course of the week. In addition to that, our UI for instructions and displaying pico questions also went through another iteration. Lastly, a few bugs related to session cookies were ironed out on the communication with the backend side of things.
— Ramya 