Like any good piece of media these days, it seems only appropriate to have a post-credits scene before we truly put the project to bed. Week Sixteen was one of endings.

On Monday, we presented on our process and product for faculty and the collected student body of the ETC. Summarizing fifteen weeks into fifteen minutes was not the easiest task, but the team made it through clearly, succinctly, and with aplomb.

A majority of the week was spent readying our documentation for Theater of War Productions. In addition to formal documentation, such as design explanation of rules and source code, the team also included our personal observations on the difficulties and benefits we found in translating our client’s existing model in to the tabletop space. The goal behind all of the documentation was that if our client wanted to hand off future design to another group, there would be enough information to enable a smooth transition.

We ended the week, and the project, with Final Playthroughs. Final Playthroughs act as one last chance for the faculty to see our deliverable in action before finalizing our product grade. They finished at noon, and our work was complete.

Thank you for being here for our journey. It was an incredibly experience for the team, and I hope you found something in these blog posts that you can take away as well.

And on week fifteen, we were finished.

Having finalized our design after Softs feedback, our design work work came to an end.

With that in mind, our final work is not quite done yet.

Our next major deadline is Final Presentations, our last opportunity to show our work to faculty and fellow students. After that, we’ll need to finalize our documentation for our client. We’re handing over both formal design documentation about our process, as well as informal notes over what we found trying to translate their framework in to the tabletop space.

And next Friday, for our last deadline, we’ll have final faculty play-throughs, to prove what we have documented and what we have presented over is what we have actually delivered.

But, until then, we can rest easy knowing we’ve done our job well, and done it thoroughly. It’s been a long semester, but we’ve done good work.