Newsletter 14

Week 15: 4/27 – 5/1

This was Patronus’ last week before final presentation week.  This week the team worked hard to continue to polish their product.  Kirsten and Ladera worked to finish the 30 second and 3 minute promotional videos, and the entire team continued to work on knocking out the 90 item Finals Tasklist.  At the end of the week, we are 2/3rds completed.

The team has been in contact with Brian Stuper and his superior, Kathryn Bedell, trying to figure out if the Student Life server would be able to support a version of our experience that would be open to anyone.  Andy also put us in touch with his contact, Mauren Antkowski, so that we could talk to her about potentially finding a home for our application on the Philosophy Department’s server.  In the meantime, the team purchased their own domain for the project so that they could submit the project to Indiecade on Friday.

Thursday was the ETC Spring Showcase.  The team worked hard to get as many tasks completed and into the experience for the Showcase as possible.  Overall, the team got very positive feedback from the showcase attendees.  Attendees found the dialogue to be believeable and the story to be engaging. People in general liked the choice structure and thought that we created an experience that would enable meaningful and educational facilitated discussions.

Next Week:

In the team’s last week, we will be preparing not only for our final presentation on Friday, but also for the Morality Play Showcase on main campus Wednesday May 6th.  Ladera and Kirsten will work on revising the team webpage so that it can be used as a project page for both the ETC and main campus teams.  The producers will work to get everything in the project archive by Friday.