{"id":4,"date":"2016-01-17T20:55:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/?p=4"},"modified":"2016-04-29T00:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T00:04:04","slug":"week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/2016\/01\/17\/week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1: 1\/10-1\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first blog post of team True North! \u00a0Our project for this semester is Morality Play. \u00a0We work closely during the semester with a philosophy class taught by Andy Norman to explore the topic of academic integrity and its implications beyond the university setting. \u00a0Together with our partners on main campus, we will work to create an interactive experience that informs and engages with incoming graduate students about these standards. \u00a0Our academic advisors on the project are Ralph Vituccio and Mike Christel. \u00a0Our clients are Amy Burket, Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Vice Provost of Education, Gina Casalegno, Dean of Student Affairs. \u00a0Through them, our primary contacts on the project are Lucas Christian, Associate Director of Student Life, and Joanna Dickert, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research and National Scholarships of the Academic Integrity Initiative Program.<\/p>\n<p>To add some context to the project, CMU noticed an increase in reported cases of cheating, plagiarism and unauthorized assistance from graduate students on campus, primarily from the pool of master\u2019s degree candidates. \u00a0In the words of our advisors, \u201cThey feel strongly that something needs to be created to address these concerns and help impress on students what ethical integrity means in both academia and their future professional lives.\u201d \u00a0Our challenge as the ETC project team will be to create a true-to-life interactive experience that captures the nuanced decisions that we need in today\u2019s digital world.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the team: Muhammad Hilman Beyri (Programmer), Sarabeth Boak (Co-Producer, Writer), Ross Houston (Artist), Timothy Staton-Davis (Co-Producer, Game Designer) Emily Zhang (Programmer, Sound Designer)<\/p>\n<p>Below are some updates from our work this week:<\/p>\n<p><b>Production<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Settled on team name, True North\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_47\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/comp-box-e1453067165830-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"This is the team's composition box, used for brainstorming and ideating\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/comp-box-e1453067165830-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/comp-box-e1453067165830-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/comp-box-e1453067165830-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the team&#8217;s composition box, used for brainstorming and ideating<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>determined team core hours, advisor meeting times and main campus attendees<\/li>\n<li>Met with faculty advisors to discuss project scope, past project takeaways<\/li>\n<li>Met with Kirsten and Stephanie from last year\u2019s Morality Play project, Decisions that Matter, to ask questions and discuss project best practices<\/li>\n<li>Attended the Playtest to Explore workshop, where we learned about best practices on playtesting, ideation and general brainstorming through creation of a composition box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Programming<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set up a central code repository for the programmers<\/li>\n<li>Able to run code from last year\u2019s morality play project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Art \/ Sound:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Settled on 2D, still ideating on style\n<ul>\n<li>Bannerman, new Archie comics as inspirations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Game Design: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ideating on repeating the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d approach from DTM or perhaps using a different structure for the design<\/li>\n<li>interested in branching structure, with true to life choices<\/li>\n<li>emotionally impactful story, with more bite and humor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next week we will be using our research to narrow down the scope of the project, story needs and art style. \u00a0In addition to these goals, we will explore preliminary playtesting and continued research with the morality play class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Welcome to the first blog post of team True North! \u00a0Our project for this semester is Morality Play. \u00a0We work closely during the semester with a philosophy class taught by Andy Norman to explore the topic of academic integrity and its implications beyond the university setting. \u00a0Together with our partners on main campus, we will work to create an interactive&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/2016\/01\/17\/week-1\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-month-1","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/true-north\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}