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| Team members reported the characteristics of websites, games,
and other interfaces they liked and disliked. Discussed about detailed narrative
planning for the Science wing and the overall game, as well as characters, dialogs, and
game flow.
Read articles on programming and collaboration between design and programming
teams. Identified discussion lists, bulletin boards, and chat rooms for parents,
teachers, and children for netnography. Observed interactions, what people talk about in
regard to certain age groups and education, and how children in the target age group
speak to one another and interact online. Each member will be developing one character in depth.
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Discussed about the characters each member developed, and the different personality
of each character and how the character will act. Continued development
of characters. |
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| Continued developing characters: drawings on paper and in software. Created
a list of what the was needed from the User Experience team, like attention span. Refined interactions in the Science
wing. Discussed about the amount of time the player will have to spend in each wing. Met with Programming
team to discuss about game introduction. Talked about having a helping character in each wing. Need to
decide which characters are needed and which are not necessary to prevent confusion. Discussed about kid's frustrations
when playing certain games. |
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| Determined the layout of the lobby and the Science wing, and what each
wing will have. Created dialogs for each character developed. |
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| Discussed about objects for each character, each wing, and their
function of helping out. Also talked about the screenshots and how it would look
in different scenarios. Started talking about Plants Game content. Need to make sure
game content matches to grade-level materials. Discussed about where to find Constellation
Game content and the flow of the game, and how Lunar Game should look. Talked about names for each wing. Agreed on the role
of the scientist in each wing. Working on dialogues in each game and the introductory dialog. |
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| Reviewed basic setup for Constellation game and Lunar game. Started working
on mockup screenshots for Constellation game. Continued developing dialoges for the introduction,
instructions, and actions. Updated rough images of each character in Illustrator. Talked about
adding another exhibit in the Science wing. |
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