{"id":12,"date":"2016-01-21T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2016-04-06T22:52:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:52:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-63\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/half-sheet-min.png\" alt=\"half sheet-min\" width=\"3841\" height=\"2781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/half-sheet-min.png 3841w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/half-sheet-min-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/half-sheet-min-768x556.png 768w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/half-sheet-min-1024x741.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/half-sheet-min-750x543.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3841px) 100vw, 3841px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Team Athena is developing Smash, a single-player iPad game that 8- to 11- year old boys with social-emotional challenges enjoy, that is engaging first and foremost, to be used during their reinforcement time with iPads at Colonial School. The game seeks to encourage problem-solving strategy and other enriching elements often absent from games geared toward this age group.<\/p>\n<p>To our target audience, feeling engaged means a feeling of power and control. Too often, games about power go hand in hand with gratuitous violence and little interweaving of any academic standards.<\/p>\n<p>Smash is a game all about being a powerful monster, stomping as many buildings as you can. Our game\u2019s aim is to compete with off-the-shelf games for this age group. Our design pillars are deeply juicy sound and visuals, feeling powerful, and a pickup and play UI which is intuitive and \u201cinvisible\u201d to all of our players, including non-readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Team Athena is developing Smash, a single-player iPad game that 8- to 11- year old boys with social-emotional challenges enjoy, that is engaging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/athena\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}