Week 13: Focus on Constellations and Customisation

13 – 19 April, 2015:

We chose to focus our final week before softs on constellations and customisation aspects of the app.

For the constellations game, work was done on the opening screen, directions to draw and being able to visit the gallery afterwards.

For planet customisation, more than 200 unique art assets were added to the pool of available items to be unlocked.  The customisation UI was tweaked yet again, with a new bar for adding name and description of the planet.

Our last playtest at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh was the first chance we were able to test the visit scene, and kids seemed to enjoy seeing other planets and got inspiration for decorating their own.

We also began some other work for client handoff and softs online.  Wei created three concepts for the app logo, from which Vasso and the board selected one.  Hannah began work pulling footage for the 30 second and 3 minute videos from our playtests, and writing interview questions for Vasso to answer.  Cheryl-Jean began the conversation about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) for apps for kids with the legal representative from Lending Hearts.

Lending Hearts app icon, option 1 (selected by the board)

Lending Hearts app icon, option 1 (selected by the board)

Lending Hearts app icon, option 2

Lending Hearts app icon, option 2

Lending Hearts app icon, option 3

Lending Hearts app icon, option 3

For soft opening, Sam got the updated visit scene and gifting functionality ready, and a build combining his and Hilman’s work on the constellations game, customisation and UI is ready to be presented to the faculty on Monday morning.