This week, Future Tech presented to the ETC faculty during Quarter Walkarounds and attended a client meeting.
Over the weekend, the team prepared PowerPoint slides and ran through a few practice runs of the presentation. The faculty came around in groups, listened to our presentation, and provided us with helpful comments and feedback regarding our project. On Wednesday, Barry Caudill from Firaxis was kind enough to drive up from Maryland to meet with the team and help to clarify our deliverable for the semester. We talked with him over lunch to get his initial impressions of our concepts, and also ask him questions that the team had about the industry and other topics. After lunch, the team and Barry met with Kate and Greg via phone conference. They told us that they liked all of our high-level mod and social concepts, and gave the reins to Barry to guide us through the project. After the meeting, we met again with Barry, and he said that we could sit on the ideas for another week to see if one would win out and start working on the mod. On Friday, the team collaborated in small groups to expand further upon our human trafficking and hunger concepts, and the producers completed some project planning for the semester.
Next week, the team will begin designing the mod, and start working towards making a design document and concept art.
