This week, we were focused on delivering our final presentation and completing the project. While creating our final slides, we thought about how to communicate the iteration and improvements we made on the game over the semester, and how we responded to various rounds of feedback. We wanted to …
Last week we had the soft opening with all faculties. We received lots of feedback and advice from faculties. This week we are focusing on finalizing our game, making changes based on soft opening, and preparing for the open house. Most of the modifications were about the UI in …
In week 13, we have our soft opening. We have faculties to play our game and give us feedback for the final. There are 2 sections in the soft opening. Half of the faculties will come in the morning section and the other half will come in the afternoon section. …
In week 12, we are preparing for our soft open presentation. Soft openness means letting faculties play our game and then make comments. Developer Feature Our game has 12 story lines, and the whole experience will be more than 2 hours. In order to make faculties more able to experience …
In week 11, the team is moving from playtesting to soft openings. We have completed all the playtests and got lots of useful feedback. As for development, all the basic functions have finished. We are currently concentrating on polishing and making the game more complete. Here are the features that …
In week 10, we made a lot of progress on finalizing the project content. We started adding the final UI into the game and wrote scripts for our stretch goal story chapters (Chapters 7-10). We also planned solutions to several issues. We need to ensure that our avatars resonate with …
In week 9, the team kept working on updating the game. We made some changes to the game scene to have an interior look for the Bank office and Stock market office. Also, the bodega interior had a new look. We also updated the 2D portrait and character models. For …
In week 8, the team had another playtest on Thursday with middle school students. Before the playtest, we made some changes from the prior playtest. Game Updated We create the tutorial part to introduce the basic game UI and mechanics at the beginning of the game. Because many players …
In week 7, the team had their half presentation on Monday. After that, the team had two playtests, one on Tuesday with high school students, the other on Thursday with middle school students. High school students are the real users of our product, therefore it is great to playtest them …
This week, we built a dialogue system in the game. Although we haven’t finished inputting all the plots, we have the interactivity between players and NPCs. We also put the street view model into the game. After entering the community, players should find Bodega and start the game according to …
