{"id":163,"date":"2015-11-09T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/inksmith\/?p=163"},"modified":"2015-11-09T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T03:25:08","slug":"week-9-102615-103015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/inksmith\/index.php\/2015\/11\/09\/week-9-102615-103015\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9: 10\/26\/15 – 10\/30\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Inksmith had our halves presentation, where we detail our project to the ETC, describing our research and process and showing our plans for the rest of the semester. Josie was able to attend and watch as our client, and we got a lot of positive reception from the faculty as to the structure of our project, our improvement throughout the semester, and our confidence in the knowledge behind our project.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After our halves presentation, Josie sent us the manuscript for our third prototype: Astronaughty. This prototype will reach its completion date on November 20th. We met Josie on Wednesday to go over the art style and mechanics we wanted to include. We discussed going with a \u201c2.5D\u201d art style, where we put 2D sprites into a 3D space where you could move around in 3D. We also talked about having a customizable avatar, and what kind of customization we could facilitated. Josie brought up a possibility of letting the child take a photo of themselves, and put it into an astronaut sprite that would be used as their avatar for the rest of the story. We decided that we should try to get a feel for what kind of avatar selection might be appealing to a child.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the week was spent on preparing for ETC Playtest Day on Saturday morning. On Saturday, we had around 7 or so children, aged 3-6, come to our project room in the morning and test our prototypes. We had them go through our first two prototypes, though they could also enter into a few other downloaded storybook apps that they liked after they were done with those. We also set up a station at our project room monitor with a few different avatar building systems to see what children preferred. We had:<\/span><\/p>\n