User Playtest day at the ETC occurred on Saturday. \u00a0Despite the nice weather we had had earlier in the week. \u00a0It rained all day on Friday and by Saturday, it was cold, windy, and all the ground was muddy and slippery. \u00a0Since we had playtesters that were older, we did not want to risk anyone\u2019s safety, so we decided to recalibrate our game for the top of the parking deck. \u00a0The top floor of the parking deck was open and a large enough space for people to play in. \u00a0However, as we discovered while we were calibrating, it was excessively windy up there making the cold air unbearable. \u00a0After all this, we decided it was better for us to not run our game on Saturday, but rather run it later in the week when it would be warmer and sunnier.<\/p>\n
Monday started with a conference call with our clients at Games for Change. \u00a0We discussed ways to improve our game as well as ways to garner attention at the Games for Change Festival to ensure that we have enough players. \u00a0After this, we booked our tickets to New York and began planning how our game would run in Washington Square Park and what kind of promotional materials we would need to prepare.<\/p>\n
Following the weekend, the weather forecast said that Thursday would be warm and sunny, so we decided to run our next playtest then. \u00a0We spent the early part of the week preparing for this test. \u00a0We made some minor changes to the game\u2019s mechanics and prepared a survey for after the test. \u00a0On Thursday we had around 30 players, including students and faculty, and ran our game twice. \u00a0Though we did run into some problems with people\u2019s phones not working, overall it ran smoothly. \u00a0Immediately following, we met with our advisors to discuss the results.<\/p>\n
Simultaneously, we were making the final preparations for our Soft Opening\/Final playtest, which would be occurring the coming weekend on Carnegie Mellon\u2019s main campus as part of the Carnival festivities. \u00a0We made promotional posters that we posted all over main campus as well as around the ETC. \u00a0We also took the results from our playtest on Thursday and implemented changes as quickly as we could to ensure that the Carnival test would be a meaningful learning experience. \u00a0We spent most of Friday implementing changes and fixing bugs. \u00a0Friday night, the team went outside and tested the final build before Carnival.<\/p>\n
This weekend, we plan to run our game at Carnival and will hopefully receive great insight and feedback. \u00a0We will then begin preparing for our Faculty Soft presentations, which will be occurring on Monday. \u00a0Next week is the last week before the festival, so we will be very busy making all the final preparations before the Games for Change festival. \u00a0We cannot wait to showcase all the hard work we have done this semester!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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