{"id":51,"date":"2016-11-19T00:52:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-11-19T00:52:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T00:52:37","slug":"week-12-playtesting-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/2016\/11\/19\/week-12-playtesting-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 12 – Playtesting Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good to see you again,<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 12 marks a very important milestone for us. \u00a0We have entered the playtesting phase of the project. \u00a0What this means, is that we are feature complete for our minimum viable product, and can begin completing the research component of the project. \u00a0It took a lot to get to this point, especially this past week, so I\u2019m excited to talk about that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Art, Animation, and Audio, are all essential to almost any digital experience, and ours is no exception. \u00a0This week, continued to complete animations to create more immersive and believable personalities. \u00a0Here\u2019s a few examples: \u00a0<\/span>Animations<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Audio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We are currently making sure all of those animations and bits of dialogue are in the experience for our guest\u2019s pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our engine has been getting better and better throughout the week. \u00a0With our behaviour tree system complete, we have focused on making that system more usable, reliable, and feature rich. \u00a0This includes features to trigger movements more fluidly, more animations, enabling audio, and most importantly giving design a greater ability to influence how Mixy behaves.<\/span><\/p>\n

The real meat of what happened this week was our design work. \u00a0Besides the usual bug fixing, we focused on iterating to improve the character\u2019s personality, and ability to fill a role. \u00a0This meant, of course, playtesting. \u00a0We tested with many of our classmates, and noticed a few consistent observations. \u00a0Examples include the audio needing more variety, the character needing to face the guest more often, and the character being difficult to track at times. \u00a0We are excited to take these bits of feedback and many others and use them to improve the experience as a whole. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty much it for this week. \u00a0Expect future blogs to be heavily focused on playtests, and how we made gains against our research goals, and much less on what we actually did.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/span><\/p>\n

~mixAR<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good to see you again, Week 12 marks a very important milestone for us. \u00a0We have entered the playtesting phase of the project. \u00a0What this means, is that we are feature complete for our minimum viable product, and can begin completing the research component of the project. \u00a0It took a lot to get to this … Continue reading Week 12 – Playtesting Begins<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/mixar\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}