Month: April 2020

Tackling Toxicity with Play

Week 14 – Soft Opening

Soft Opening was this week. Softs is a time for faculty to come and experience the project in a “more or less” finished state. They can provide their thoughts on the experience as it is, allowing us another couple weeks to tighten some screws before the project is actually final. Because of Covid, we had…
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Week 13 – Playtests Paying Off

We’ve made a good number of updates to our experience since the last playtest and it is really starting to take shape. I’ll go through the updates we made for this week’s playtest on Wednesday, and the updates we’ve got planned before next week’s Soft Opening on Monday. Pretty Effects We’ve added some effects happen…
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Week 12 – Playtest Day

Playtest Day This week’s playtest happened to be Playtest Day. That means that we had an increased faculty count at the playtest and got more focused feedback. We ran into myriad problems this playtest, but the feedback was quite helpful. For starters, voting and upgrades are still giving us trouble. That being said, we got…
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Weeks 9, 10, & 11 – Covid-19

Covid-19 Adjustments The advent of Covid-19 means that CMU is now operating on a remote basis for the duration of this semester. We learned about this towards the end of Spring Break. These past few weeks we’ve struggled to find the time to keep up with blogging due to the large shift, but I’ll attempt…
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