{"id":302,"date":"2017-03-03T04:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/sweet-talk\/?p=302"},"modified":"2017-03-11T00:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T00:23:58","slug":"week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/sweet-talk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/03\/week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to our weekly newsletter!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are in Week 6, we had a lot of valuable feedback from our Quarters the details of which can be found in our week 5 blog post. The take away from our meeting post Quarters was to build a story around a malfunctioning robot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We had our design team brainstorm and ideate separately while preparing a pitch in three layers. Our first phase was to bring to the table a high-level idea and then work downwards, into the game mechanics.\u00a0Once we had decided upon an idea, we would start researching existing content and then draw out a rough outline of the possible systems we could implement. Next, we would pitch to our team, get feedback and then work to our final pitch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-303\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/sweet-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1233-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/sweet-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1233-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/sweet-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1233-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/sweet-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1233-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We came across an interesting idea of having the player be the malfunctioning Robot instead of the AI. The story would revolve around the guest (Malfunctioning domestic robot) who is a caretaker for the little girl (AI) starts malfunctioning and with the help of the little girl (AI), you are trying to fix yourself. This would involve using a manual and read it, then ask the little girl to help you solve the puzzles. Some of the objects in play would be &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Story Book<\/li>\n<li>Manual<\/li>\n<li>Tools<\/li>\n<li>Wires<\/li>\n<li>Furniture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was difficult designing the voice interactions in this scene, as the moment we changed the AI to a human the guest expectations would increase while the hardware is still finicky\u00a0and could easily break the experience.\u00a0Going forward we decided to stick with the \u00a0AI being a robot to limit voice interactions also keeping the dialogues simple.<br \/>\nAt the end of the week, we had a chance to visit 2K &#8211; Visual Concepts, this was a great learning experience and we also were able to share our ideas and get feedback from industry professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for tuning in, we will see you soon!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to our weekly newsletter! &nbsp; We are in Week 6, we had a lot of valuable feedback from our Quarters the details of which can be found in our week 5 blog post. 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