This Week: The team is halfway through our production crunch between Half-Semester Presentations and Soft-Openings. Work on “Food Quest” is continuing along at a steady pace; however, there are pressures on certain areas. Production Progress: Programmers are finishing the implementation …
This Week: Happy Halloween to all! Luckily, the specter that was Hurricane Sandy did little to disrupt our operations here in Pittsburgh. Production Progress: We’ve now finished all of our assets for the Introduction and Egg slice, including a major …
Halves: On Wednesday, the team gave our Half-Semester Presentation at the ETC. This was our chance to let the greater community of ETC faculty, students, and even guests know what we are doing. We received many thoughtful questions about our …
Playtest at the Thelma Lovette YMCA: The week started with a playtest at the Thelma Lovette YMCA, in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. These were kids of lower socio-economic status – we were excited to see how they responded to our prototype, …
Refining the Project: The team met early in the week amongst ourselves and with our faculty advisors to map out the new flow of the game as completely as possible. We also met with Susan’s team on Wednesday to clarify …
First Playtest: On Monday, Capital Games conducted its first playtest with kids at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. Our game had seven testers, aged 3 ½ to 6. This first test was mostly focused on the physical interaction between the player …
Quarter-Semester Faculty Review: On Monday, ETC faculty visited the project to hear about our direction and progress. The team received useful feedback in regards to how we could make our game stand out from the many that occupy this market …
This Week’s Highlights and Lowlights: Albert got to visit with Sesame Workshop on his visit to New York for a conference, and had a unique opportunity to pick their minds and get some feedback on our work. Back in Pittsburgh, …
Starting Development: This week was an exciting one, as we ran through our last major pre-production steps on the road to development. Our team now has all of our hardware and software setup for iPad development. We had a great …
This Week This week’s been a productive one, as we’ve been building the ship that will carry us through the semester. Susan Neuman and her team at the University of Michigan provided us with helpful resources to start tackling our …