Vis Viva Week 14:
We started this week with soft presentations on Monday. We had our new build of the game up and running. Members of the Faculty walked around and gave feedback on things to polish before finals. Most were small fixes that will be quick to implement. We edited our tutorial text to make it clearer and are continuing to respond to the other feedback.
On Wednesday our clients from Chevron stopped over to the ETC to play through our experience and give additional feedback. The geologists loved playing through the game and thought it was a great way to help students understand and get excited about geology concepts. They had a few small tweaks about terminology that we will work to address next week, but overall they are really excited to see this project come together and are curious to see what other applications it could have in a museum setting.
On Friday, members of the team went out to Elizabeth Forward to Paint the now completed wood installation. We chose to use a dark blue for the top and silver for the bottom. The Pittsburgh cityscape will be painted in silhouette black around the tv screens. After seeing what it looked like we have decided that we will repaint the bottom black as a continuation of the silhouette. This will be done next week. We are going to laser cut wooden building cases that will also be black to cover the LED lights that will go on the installation. This will also be completed early next week.
We will be busy next week as we need to install the lights and controls on the installation at the school. All the parts for controls have been ordered and we are awaiting their arrival so we can go install them next week. We will also work on project documentation, prepare for the TES summit and begin rehearsals for our final presentation.