This week was all about the group’s Half Semester presentation and starting to think about the second half of the semester. We came away from our presentation feeling strong, and received some critical feedback that we plan on moving forward. Specifically, we are discussing moving into the realm of combat more as well as being more adventurous and daring in…
Giant Combat saw some decent-sized (almost giant-sized) progress during Week 7. We continued with our question of “What is correct behaviors for the LSE reacting to the player?” and implemented a lot of interesting features. While not all of them are in quite yet, we plan on finalizing what we’ve done during the early part of next week as we…
This week saw us addressing a lot of the insight gained during playtesting while starting to tackle the next question. However, what we attempted to fix and adjust took a bit more time than expected so we governed next week to be wholly dedicated to question-tackling. In the meantime, here’s what was adjusted/changed this week! Changes / Playtesting A major…
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Just when we think the previous week saw growth, we somehow happen to outdo ourselves! A brand new LSE is ready to be taken down! On the programming side of things, auto-aim was implemented for the hook shot to allow for an easier time grappling to trees. With this in place, aimming is not as important (since that is not…
Week 4 might be the biggest week of them all so far, given the fact that our Quarters presentation, as well as faculty sit-downs, were this week. Various faculty members came into our room to discuss our project, and all had great thoughts and opinions not just on how we can tackle certain problems but also how we could be…
Faculty Advisors Mike Christel Mike is interested in the development and evaluation of transformational games, especially in the areas of education and health care. Mike joined the ETC Faculty in 2008, moving from Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Department where he was working at the intersection of speech recognition, image processing, and multimedia interface development and evaluation. As a member of…
This week went by quickly as we prepped for Quarters. We started getting into some of the finer details of how a prototype will control. For instance: How does the player use the hookshot? How does the player use a sword? What should the distance between climb points be? What should the distance between hookshot points be? We quickly looked…
Week 2 continued our process of setting and gearing up with great results! Looking to the future, information about measuring motion sickness and discomfort were gathered. Documents were made using Google Sheets and Forms to best track our testing results and compare the data later on in the semester. These will be “living documents”, as we understand that changes may…
Week 1 involved a lot of setup and had us focusing on big questions throughout the course of the week. This was the week we laid most of the foundation for the semester by getting processes in order and solidifying a variety of different choices. We’ve been busy getting our room set up, landing on Valve Index as our hardware…