Last week and this week, we had the opportunity to get input from two fabulous members of the ETC community - Ruth Comley and Tina Blaine (Bean). Ruth shared her expertise in working with haunted houses. She told us all about how people act when they are in the dark, beginning with "they lose their cool." She's seen every kind of reaction from people while they went through haunted houses, including parents using children as shields and people sitting down and refusing to move on, which are good reactions for us to be aware of even if we are trying…

This week was a short week because of Labor Day and the Fundamentals Adventure Module (which half the team attended)! Despite this, we got started with two sound-related playtests as well as making progress on branding and our semester plan. We tested people’s ability to identify objects by sound and their ability to aim a projectile at a target using only sound. The identification test was carried out on Wednesday. The objects we used to test were: We also used an empty Pepsi can, an electric toothbrush as well as a box of cereal. We put all the objects behind…

Welcome to Lights Out! This project began last semester during the ETC pitch process, where we realized that a nonvisual, multi-sensory location-based project could produce something really new and compelling. We are opening the semester with as much research and testing as we can think of and by the end of the semester we will have built a full experience that we will share at the ETC Fall Festival. The key focuses of our semester are going to be smell, touch, and hearing. We want to include all of these in some significant way in our experience. The genre and…