{"id":201,"date":"2016-10-10T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/lights-out\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-10-10T19:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:19:52","slug":"week-6-newsletter-103-1072016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/lights-out\/index.php\/2016\/10\/10\/week-6-newsletter-103-1072016\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 Newsletter (10\/3-10\/7\/2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, we had a few visits, a workshop, and one playtest (more here<\/a>). Robyn Miller and Richard Vander Wende and a small team from EA were kind enough to stop by during the week and share some thoughts about our project, and we also had a very educational meeting with Jess Hammer who helped us reframe the way we were thinking about playtests and gathering data. Because of this meeting, we asked for emotional responses on the valence-arousal model after this week’s playtest and found that we seem to be on the right track! Heather Kelley also donated a few hours to have a smell workshop for our team. This workshop let us get creative with smells and try little games we could make with scent. As an opening to the workshop, she suggested we watch her talk here<\/a>, which is excellent for those looking to learn more about smell and games. A huge thank you to all of our visitors and our wonderful playtesters – we had a very enlightening week!<\/p>\n

From tech:<\/p>\n

From\u00a0 the final experience brainstorming session, several ideas involve potential usage of technology, such as using Echo as a robot character; using Kinect IR camera to track the position of guests; or using image processing to enable guests to \u201cscan\u201d items and get feedback. While all the playtests run in the following weeks, we will also be researching and testing with these technologies and hopefully be able to apply them in our final experience.<\/p>\n

From design:<\/p>\n

This week, we mainly worked on coming up with smell playtest. We came up with a detective story where testers need to use their sense of smell to identify certain objects with certain scent. We learned many things that could enhance the environment\/resources for smell mechanic. But the bottom line was that smell mechanic to discover is found to be very engaging and fun, as long as finding objects give more feedbacks, reward, and meaning. Also semi-accidentally, we also learned that where we place certain things can dictate the navigation of people.<\/p>\n

Next week, we will have another playtest but we will also be developing our design for the final experience.<\/p>\n

From art:<\/p>\n

During week 6 on the art side of the things, we spent a while working within the playtest room to measure and scale the room down. With scaling the room down, over the weekend we plan on making a 10th scale foam board version of the room so that we can have a bird\u2019s eye view of the room when building the pieces of the final experience.<\/p>\n

For the playtest on Friday we also spent some time in building the environment. We did not need to build a new specific piece for this playtest, but we needed a large number of objects and furniture for the space to make a compelling environment.<\/p>\n

Next week we have many more industry visits as well as the opportunity to visit the Blind & Visual Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh and speak with one of their mobility experts, Miguel. We hope this will help with our goal of building an experience that really is for everyone, regardless of visual ability.<\/p>\n

We will also have our final playtests before deciding on an experience that we will spend the rest of the semester building, because we hope to start on that the following week (just before 1\/2s).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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