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Week 14 (Soft Opening)

We had soft opening this week and we received a lot of feedback from people on how to improve charlie even further to have her remember context from the user. We then implemented those features Read more…

Week 13 (Story boarding)

We did story boarding for the 3 minute promo video and also shot some parts of it. We then had thanksgiving break for the week.  

Week 12 (Playtests)

We worked on improving the sticker API and the state machine for Charlie. We conducted playtests to check which method is more user friendly for the sticker API – gaze or tap. We re worked Read more…

Week 11 (State Machine)

We worked on improving Charlie’s state machine and natural language this week. We had playtests to test out the changes we made and also to figure out which method is more convenient for the user Read more…

Week 10 (Sticker API)

We started working on the sticker API to add different stickers that charlie finds online and puts it in the scene. This is to give a different experience for every guest. We conducted playtests on Read more…

Week 9 (Halves)

We had the halves presentation this week. We went through many iterations to create a story for our presentation. After the presentation the team, Watched Halves presentation as a team: 1. Discussed briefly what we can improve and Read more…

Week 8 (Microsoft Event)

We were working on the prototype for the halves and we started preparing for the halves presentation.  We had Craig Wells talk about production and gave us feedback as to how we should proceed with Read more…

Week 7 (Prototyping)

We had Anthony Daniels visit this week. After playtesting our prototype he pointed out that we did not need text on the screen as it ruined the immersion of the experience. We also got other Read more…

Week 6 (Character Design)

We began with personality and character design for Charlie. So, we started by defining CROW (Character, Relationship, Objective, Where) for Charlie. This helped us learn what kind of character we want charlie to be. Then Read more…

Week 5 (Quarters)

We had the quarters in Week 5 and learned a lot through the feedback on what we need to focus on and what areas we need to work on. Here is the feedback summarized: We Read more…

Week 4 (Composition Box)

We completed and discussed the composition box and the metrics matrix with Carl and Erin.   The programmers started on working on a prototype to showcase it for quarter walkarounds. The artist worked on the Read more…

Week 3 (TOC)

Yang, Megh and Angie went for the CMU TOC in Pittsburgh. We had a short meeting sharing project updates about our photo assistant and making everyone back to the same page. Here are the highlights: Talked Read more…