Finals And with that… we’re done! It’s been a whirlwind of a semester, and we’re very happy to say that we’re finished! We’ve learned so much this semester: We learned that kids are smart. Like WAY smarter than adults. (My working theory: biases that we develop as we grow up Read more…
Week 14 We got a lot of helpful feedback from faculty during soft opening. Overall, most suggestions were nitpicking items that will help bring our experience to the next level. Most faculty felt that our world was really cute and alive, and the art style was appropriate for our audience. Read more…
Week 13 With one week left until soft opening, we’re implementing final details to our experience. On Monday, we met with our faculty advisors to discuss the feedback that we received last week (see Week 12 blog). Given the limited time that we have left in the semester they suggested: Read more…
Week 12 We had a short week with Carnival occurring on Thursday and Friday, but that doesn’t mean that we stopped working! After ETC Playtest Day, we had a TON of changes to implement (see Week 11 blog) that we started to work on. We also invited faculty to stop Read more…
Week 11 We spent this week preparing for ETC Playtest Day. We continued to implement changes from our last playtest, working on adding in sad and happy animations for characters and more sound reinforcements. On Monday, Heather gave our artists feedback on their models and animations. She recommended meeting with Read more…
Week 10 After last week’s playtest, we have a long running list of changes to implement and spent most of the week just working. We met with faculty on Monday to discuss how the playtest went, and updates on our progress. The faculty advised us to be thinking about how Read more…
Week 9 After a much too short spring break, we returned to a very busy week. Between our last playtest before spring break and Monday, we implemented the following in our new build for the Children’s Museum Playtest Day: Sound effects Weather changing effects Walk animations Iconography Refined models Refined Read more…
Week 8 And we’re done with halves!!!!!!!!!!!!! We presented first on Monday afternoon, had a little bit of clicker difficulty, but overall we were very happy with our presentation (mostly to be done with it…)! Watch a recording below. During halves we were asked about: Whether we needed a digital Read more…
Week 7 With halves just around the corner, we spent the week putting together our slide deck. But that doesn’t mean that work stopped for this team… After building out our third iteration, we decided to change the flower interaction to only serve as a subliminal counter for acts of Read more…
Week 6 We’re sprinting to halves this week with three iterative builds. We’ve divvied up our interactions into the following sprints to test interactions and timing: On Monday, we demoed the first build with the dog interaction (sheltering a dog and bringing it to a dog house) and the sheltering Read more…