{"id":168,"date":"2015-10-27T23:53:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T23:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/faceless\/?p=168"},"modified":"2015-12-01T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:57:38","slug":"dev-update-8-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/faceless\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/dev-update-8-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Update #8 – Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week we conducted our latest playtest about our new updates to multiplayer, new videos, and location controller. \u00a0In addition, we also began preparing for our Halves presentation next week. \u00a0For the playtest, we had a total of 10 people from EA that came to our space to play the game. \u00a0Some of these people even included marketing directors of the Xfinity Games platform. \u00a0*Cool!*\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our goal for the new videos we created were to gain an understanding about how the different mixing & video-cutting styles affect a player's interest and engagement. \u00a0We discovered that one style was too intense while the other was more like the interest curve that we wanted. \u00a0We'll use this data to find a way to affect a player's engagement by mapping our video levels to interest curves. \u00a0Hopefully, we'll be able to develop some standard and guideline for this process to make it simple to do as well. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"playtest_interestCurve\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As for multiplayer, we received some very helpful feedback and watched how players interacted during gameplay. \u00a0Just as we expected, players had a tendency to \"cheat\" by pressing the button when someone else had found an object. \u00a0We gave those players a lower score but they didn't seem to be extremely concerned about that. \u00a0This is an issue that we have to fix in the coming weeks. It was great to see that our positive feedback for when a player found an object was working. \u00a0Everyone reported that they could tell when they found an object!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"HOG_Multiplayer_ver1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With our Half Presentations next week, we began preparing our slides and topics to discuss. \u00a0We already had one practice on Thursday which helped to nail down what we needed to work on. \u00a0Hopefully Faceless will do a great job during the presentations and get all of our viewers excited about our progress.<\/p>\n

~Faceless Prod.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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