As a team, we focused all of our efforts this week on refining our ideas for the project, refining our team\u2019s branding, and preparing for our Quarter Presentations.<\/p>\n
We started this week by meeting with faculty members both in the ETC and on main campus to gain some more insight into the development of a game about social issues. \u00a0We split our efforts so that half of the team met with Jessica Hammer, a new faculty member here at the ETC, and the other half met with Paolo Pedercini, a faculty member on main campus CMU. \u00a0Both of these meetings provided us with interesting insight into the development of games that deal with a social issue. \u00a0A few of us also went to the playtesting workshop put on by Jessica Hammer and Mike Christel. \u00a0This was very helpful in getting us thinking about the types of playtests we would need to set up this semester. \u00a0Later in the week, we met with Jesse Schell and discussed our project and current ideas with him. \u00a0He also gave us some very helpful advice. \u00a0All of these meetings inspired our team conversations and pushed us to work even harder.<\/p>\n
Janet, Lisa, Tim, and Yan continued researching social issues. \u00a0We narrowed our research down to world hunger and economic inequality. \u00a0We spent hours going to various charity websites and reaching out to them.\u00a0 The few charities that we did get into contact with, we asked what the core of the issue was and what challenges they, as a charity, were facing in trying to solve this issue. \u00a0This led to some very interesting insights and new perspectives that we were not aware of. \u00a0After our individual research, the four of us met and discussed what we had gleaned from our research and from calling charities. \u00a0From this discussion, we pulled out 3 one-sentence statements about the state of the issues we researched and brought them to the rest of the team.<\/p>\n
Our programmers, Ken and Alex set up our Unity account. \u00a0Since our game will eventually be played by a large number of people, they prototyped a very basic network that could interact between devices. \u00a0Jack, along with the other artists, received critiques on the first draft of our team branding. \u00a0Following that, Jack continued to edit and refine our team\u2019s logo, half sheet, and poster. \u00a0We also took our team picture. \u00a0Tim edited the photo, and it ended up being very silly.<\/p>\n
We all came back together and produced a few new ideas, but also built upon the ideas we came up with last week. \u00a0At the end of the week, we presented these ideas to our advisors and our client. \u00a0The feedback was mixed, but we as a team felt that we found a direction that really inspired us. \u00a0We began preparations for our Quarter Presentation on Monday. \u00a0Next week we look forward to receiving feedback from the faculty during Quarters. \u00a0We also cannot wait to begin implementing our ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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