On Monday we had process grades and were officially approved to go back down to visit the village next week. We began making preps such as a checklist and a list of questions.
We also began designing more backgrounds for the animation. Here are some that we have right now:
Some of the feedback we have gotten on them is that they do not necessarily highlight Buttons, but rather look like they are competing with Buttons. We are going to be redesigning the backgrounds next week while trying to keep the color scheme.
This week we were also able to get in contact with a voice actor, Tim Hartman, who has agreed to help us with voice acting for Buttons! We will be meeting next week with Dan (our sound designer) to record lines.
This week both Anthony Daniels and people from Cortina Productions playtested our tree and gave us feedback. They both thought that is was simple and to the point, which are two goals that we feel we have achieved.
Lastly, we also started discussing having multiple languages. We would like Spanish, French, German, and English as all language options for our experience. We chose English, Spanish, and French because those are the most common languages used at the Village; but we also included German because we remember Give Kids The World mentioning that there is usually a large German group that visits the Village every summer. We currently have others helping us translate, and hopefully be able to get others to voice act in these languages.
Next week we are planning to get things together for visiting the village and moving forward with voice acting.