{"id":329,"date":"2019-04-16T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2019-04-16T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:07:24","slug":"week-11-a-beginning-and-ending","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/week-11-a-beginning-and-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 11, A Beginning and Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week was a big week for Magic\nLeap. An update was released that featured headset-to-device streaming. While\ntechnically still in Beta, this is a huge boost to our group\u2019s ability to efficiently\nshare information. Instead of having each team member to put the headset on to\nexperience something, we can stream a video feed to a smartphone and mirror\nthat on our project room\u2019s big screen. This update coincides with one of this\nweek\u2019s major events, Playtest Day. Playtest Day is one of our few opportunities\nto have individuals outside of the ETC to test our experience and provide us\nwith valuable data, including the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How clear was the story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How intuitive was the stamping mechanism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did the guest understand their\npurpose in the story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And ultimately, What were some\nareas of confusion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results of the playtests will\nhelp us judge if the mechanics we implemented and the story we created are\nbeing conveyed and understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to test, we were able to create\na condensed, yet complete, version of our experience. It features a beginning\nwith the guest being introduced to the world and their workspace, followed by their\nfirst encounter with Weird Ghost, a complete interaction with the first ghost Juicy,\nas well as the finale we had created the weeks prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Juicygif.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-309\" width=\"574\" height=\"429\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings us to an important\npoint: Our experience is heavily dialogue based, so we need talented\nindividuals who can bring out the subtleties of the script. Thankfully, the\nCarnegie Mellon School of Drama had a number of actors who were able to help\nus. We spent an evening recording all of the dialogue lines, with our\nstorywriter Kate\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/VOgif.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-330\" width=\"581\" height=\"367\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And what a difference that made!\nBeing able to match the existing visuals we had with the newly recorded audio\nbrought all of the characters to life, and helped our animators proceed with a\nmore accurately stylized approach in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope that the new build, featuring\na full story arch, more art assets, and actual dialogue will help us have a\nmuch better understanding of what else we need to work on post Playtest Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was a big week for Magic Leap. An update was released that featured headset-to-device streaming. While technically still&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-329","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/artales\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}