This week our team is focusing on iterating the existing product. Our development phase has ended. Now we need to polish the product. There are several areas we need to improve on. More sound effects Adding visual guidance to Alexa Find a better way to present our product. During soft Read more…
We had 7 guests coming in this Wednesday to playtest our experience. We ask playtesters to choose from one of the five acts. We also ask them to fill out a survey afterwards. Major takeaway from this playtests include: We should use more question style ending to prompt the user Read more…
This week the team finished the development phase of our product: the sound is in, the full storyline is in, puzzles are in. Here is a complete description of our project. Act 1 Tutorial + Story You are a thirsty traveler who has just arrived at a mysterious desert town. Read more…
This week our team’s focus is puzzle development. Weidi is working on our puzzle design and Ruoxi helps to find the right sound clips. Meanwhile Brian is working on the story script and Shawn is working on skill flow builder implementation. Weidi designed and built the maze + sound puzzle Read more…
This Monday the team presented to guests at Electronic Arts on our project and current progress. Shawn and Brian joined us remotely via Zoom from Pittsburgh. Weidi made our presentation slides and embedded the sound clips into the slides. In addition to three rehearsals, we rehearsed on our own in Read more…
The team started the week with writing the storyline. We took faculty’s advice of writing for story first and then adapt the story to Alexa format. We had our first playable build up until Story Act 1 on Friday. The following is the latest one-pager we have. We want to Read more…
On Monday, our client gave us a clear direction that the team should go. The team should develop on our spice market demo that we showed in our previous prototype demo, and combine storytelling with puzzle design. Client also recommend the team to use Skill Flow Builder. Timeline We set Read more…
After our client reemphasized replayability, growing community and more inclusive age group, the team revisited our previous ideas with the question in mind: how can we make it a shared experience that has higher retention rate? Though we still like puzzle-centered adventure game, the team think it’s very hard to Read more…
This week the team made three prototypes and have iterated at least once before showing them to client on Thursday. From there the team decide to purse the route of puzzle-centered adventure game. Tech side programmer have used Amazon developer console to made a prototype with audio. Audio side we have Read more…
This is a week of receiving and responding to feedback for us. We also developed the composition box and nailed down our metrics. We had faculty walk around in Pittsburgh on Monday, open house in Silicon Valley on Wednesday and faculty sit-down on Friday. For the demo on Wednesday we Read more…