Week 14
This Monday, Team Patronus had their soft opening. Faculty came through the project room, played through the experience, and gave us feedback on what they liked and/or what they thought could be better. The full package was running and operational, from the landing and content warning pages given to us by the main campus team to the video testimonials at the end. Overall, Patronus received very positive feedback from the faculty with only minor changes suggested and comments made. The team was able to schedule a wonderful team dinner on Tuesday to celebrate their successful soft opening.
After soft openings, the team sat down and went through the full experience together, going through every branching scenario and taking note of anything that we wished to polish or fix, keeping in mind suggestions from the faculty at softs. We created a task list from all of our comments to complete throughout the next week and a half to create a fully polished product by finals. The ETC Spring Showcase is April 30th, so the team will be working to get as many of these updates in as possible for the showcase.
With all of the primary character, environment, and compositional art complete, Cewon and Wenyu were able to turn their attention to the landing page, the mock facebook pages for the characters, and other UI design items this week because they ended up ahead of schedule at the end of last week. Kirsten and Stephanie met with the main campus class and discussed playtest reviews as well as the promotional event on March 6th, and the written facilitator package. Kirsten and Stephanie also conducted two playtests at main campus on Wednesday with volunteers that were contacted through Jess Klein’s network.
Ladera contacted Brian Stuper and gave him the most recent version of our product to be put on the CMU test server. The team recorded themselves talking about the project to put in the promotional video and Kirsten and Ladera began editing footage for the video.
Next Week:
Next week will be the last week the team has before final presentations. The team will be working hard to implement everything on their task list on time for Thursday’s showcase. The goal is to have a completely finished product by Friday of next week as well as a rough structure for our final presentation.
Kirsten and Ladera will continue to work on the promotional video, while Kirsten and Stephanie also work to make sure the team has all the required elements for their post-mortem, project archive, and website together by the end of the week. We will also follow up with Brian Stuper to make sure the experience is running successfully on the CMU test server.