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PROFESSOR: So to all of our
guests, thank you for coming.

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This is the final presentations
for CMS.611 crossed listed

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as 6.073 the Creating
Video Games class.

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In this class, we
have 40 students,

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learning how to make games and
learning about the production

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process of making games.

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So a lot of the things we're
talking about in class,

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a little bit about
design, but often also

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about how do you
communicate as a team.

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How do you get work done
on time and on schedule,

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as I overheard a lot of things
happening this last week.

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Every year, we choose a
client to make games for.

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This year, we were very blessed
to have the Red Cross/Red

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Crescent Climate
Centre, in Pablo Suarez.

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As our common
client, he presented

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a number of different games,
ideas, and topics ideas

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to the class.

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The class formed teams about
those for the final projects.

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And that's what we're
going to be seeing today.

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Our order of presentations
are going to be over here.

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So we're going to have
three presentations.

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Each presentation is about
20 minutes plus another 10

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for Q&A and then
just tech switches.

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We'll have the intermission
after Heatwaves is finished.

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And then we've got two more.

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Cholera, I did not write down
the full name for your game.

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Your team, Lauren.

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What is the full
name for your game?

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LAUREN: Cholera Control.

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PROFESSOR: Cholera Control.

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Make a note of that.

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So they and [INAUDIBLE]
will be last.

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I also wanted to mention
to all the students

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here, if you're
interested in continuing

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your education on game
development, as you can see,

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spring is loaded
with game courses.

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CMS.301, which is taught
by Sara and Michael

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in the back-- hi, Michael.

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MICHAEL: Hi.

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PROFESSOR: It is an introduction
to game design methods.

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In particular, it's unpacking
the idea of prototyping

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[INAUDIBLE] for digital games.

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And the lessons
learned there can

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be applied to pretty much
any kind of designer,

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but they're focusing
on game design methods.

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CMS.608, Phillip and I teach,
is board game and card game

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design.

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It's structured, actually,
very similar to this class

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with a few small projects and
then a final project at the end

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that you spend about
half the semester on.

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And those, of course,
are non-digital games, so

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board games, card games.

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We've had people do live
action RPGs and tabletop

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RPGs, role-playing
games for that class.

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The next two courses,
CMS.610, Art, Science,

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and Business Video Games, and
CMS.617, Advanced Game Studio,

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also built on the team building
aspect but not as harshly

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as we do.

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You won't be in
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unless you really want to.

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Teams tend to be about four to
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and actually as low as
three in some cases for 617.

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Right now in the catalog,
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being taught on Thursday.

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We are trying to
move 617 to Tuesday.

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So I'll send out an
announcement about that.

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And then lastly, if you liked
creating the specific games

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you made in class this
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of educational
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to know more about how
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how to make games for education
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in particular for
education, CMS.590

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cross-listed I think-- I
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but my memory said
11.129 is Computer Games

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and Simulation for Investigation
and Education, tion.

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That is taught-- last year, it
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and Jason Haas with Eric Klopfer
is the faculty on that course.

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A really great course,
I highly recommend it.

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You can look up
the syllabus in OCW

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if you want to
know more about it.

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And with that, we are
going to start with Snap.

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TEJ CHAJED: All
right, hi, everybody.

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I'm Tej, and I'm
from the Snap team.

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We're going to start off
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So the way our
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called Snap and
everybody participates

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from their own computer.

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We'll give you a
topic, and then you'll

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enter words related
to that topic.

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And whenever you get the
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you'll get a point.

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So it's pretty simple.

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So we'll invite you to
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We'll be showing the
moderator interface.

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So normally, you
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The moderator would
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But we'd like to
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is a part of our game.

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All right, and the topic we'll
be doing today, to mix it up

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from last time, is video games.

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And we'll run the game for
about two minutes this time.

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All right, so I have no
idea how long it's been.

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But I'm going to
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and I'm going to stop the game.

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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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And that's a game.

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Congratulations, Julia,
and Kevin in second place.

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This is what you guys invented.

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Thank you, guys,
for playing Snap.

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That was [INAUDIBLE].

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AUDIENCE: Luigi [? book. ?]

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AUDIENCE: What was that?

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AUDIENCE: Luigi.

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TEJ CHAJED: All right,
so as you can see,

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this gives you an idea of
what you were thinking about,

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what you think about when you
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surprisingly right now is Snap.

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And with that,
we've given a feel

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for the moderator interface.

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And hopefully, you got a
chance to play the game

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and see what the player sees.

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And we'll start
the presentation.

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So this game was made
for the Red Cross.

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Pablo actually helped
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And he presented it to
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that they play at conferences.

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He provided feedback
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was extremely helpful in giving
us an idea of what they wanted

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and also helping us run the
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So we were able to see what
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that we expect to play with.

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we split up into backend
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The backend worked
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and also the moderator interface
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for example.

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This split was challenging
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especially, because
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be interdependent or
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until there was a backend.

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And there was a
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When we needed to
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the API between the
backend and frontend

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wasn't necessarily
well-documented.

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But overall, we think that
it led to simpler management

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within the teams.

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We didn't have a lot of
organization within each team.

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There wasn't a lot of
explicit organization.

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But it did help to know
that a smaller set of people

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would be working on the
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at any given time.

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In the future, I think we would
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in our roles.

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Like a few roles that we thought
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include a UI designer.

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This would have made sure that
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love from the beginning
and would have made sure

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that we actually focused
on UI from the beginning.

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It also would have helped to
have somebody communicating

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between the teams.

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This person may have
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or may have simply
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that the frontend knew what
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and the backend knew
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so we could prioritize
well between the teams.

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It also would have
helped to have somebody

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dedicated to paperwork.

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This would have helped both
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and also just doing the
documentation that we needed,

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both for ourselves
and the class.

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And finally, somebody
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would have helped us develop
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and think more about
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go beyond what we already
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look like based on
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we played from the clients.

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As far as technology
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we used Asana to
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Asana worked really well for us.

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In particular, it let us split
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and backend.

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This was useful, because
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didn't need to touch the
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But on the other hand,
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encoding task dependencies.

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This was particularly a
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crossed both the
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where some API was
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and then was also
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And you couldn't do
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We also had trouble
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And this basically meant that
people didn't create tasks.

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And part of this was that we
didn't have a specific role

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for creating the tasks.

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And so, because of the
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nobody would go through
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that needed to be done.

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To improve that in
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like to get people
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Part of this was that people
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And it would have helped if
people both explicitly said

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how much they were going
to commit to the class

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and also we made it
easier for people

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to contribute with the
small amount of time

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that they had available.

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SABRINA DRAMMIS: So
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our group used an
instant messaging

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application called Slack.

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And this was really
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because it allowed
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into different channels.

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As you see here, we have
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as two different channels and
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everyone can communicate.

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separately from the
backend, not needing to know

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exactly what was going on.

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But they could go look, if
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some conversation there.

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The bad part about this was that
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and responsive right away.

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And I think we could of
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if we required everyone
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the mobile application.

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That way, they would get
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when they were mentioned.

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And they would be more
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TEJ CHAJED: On the
backend, generally things

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went really well.

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Our technology, in particular,
worked really well for us.

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We used node.js for the
server, and socket.io

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for two-way communication
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and Heroku to do deployment.

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We were explicitly forbidden
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in this class, which we
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of these technologies really
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We already knew how to use them.

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and understand what
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had too much manpower.

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where sometimes we felt like
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would have made sure that it
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and we could quickly finalize
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We actually deployed
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and the client has been
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This is actually a
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on November 18 in Berlin
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And you can see the words
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Here are some other deployments.

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One of the things that made this
class-- what was challenging

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for us is that we had to
manage both client expectations

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and the course expectations.

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it seemed important to
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And it was hard to balance doing
this and also during the tasks

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that the course required of
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SABRINA DRAMMIS: So
I'm going to talk

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a little bit about our frontend
design and that process.

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So initially, when we
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we had this idea that people
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and they would be
racing other players.

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So we thought it
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to use Phaser, which is a
sprite-based game framework.

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But as you see here, we didn't
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And we had no sprites.

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But we still used Phaser to
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iteration.

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for our game.

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We needed something more
professional and more abstract

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that could be used in any
sort of setting that Pablo,

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our client, may use it.

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So we completely
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deciding to just use
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As you can see here, it's just
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if you've ever used
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So we tried to add a
little bit of flavor.

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way to kind of represent

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how the game is
progressing to the player.

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We currently had no idea
for that in this design.

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So then we came up
with the final design

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that you guys played,
our theme of having blue.

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visualization to the right,

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where each player is
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And your height
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of your score in relation
to all the other players.

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So how we kind of got to
this final visualization idea

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was an interesting process.

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First, we thought it'd
be really cool to have

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a word cloud on the frontend,
as well as the back end.

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But a player would only
be able to see the words

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that they had submitted.

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All the other words
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But this didn't really
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where they were in relation
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So there wasn't any
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So we came up with this
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where all the players
would be on the line

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and the height would represent
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And then we thought, well, we
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But we investigated
the word cloud.

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And we realized it'd be
extremely difficult to blur out

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these words.

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And it wasn't really going to
be the best use of our time.

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So then we came
up with this idea

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of using dots to
represent players.

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And we thought it'd be cool
if the size of your dot

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represented your score.

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But the use case
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could involve 100
players or even more.

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So a lot of growing large dots
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so we needed to rethink this.

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And this is when we finally
ended up deciding on height

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representing score.

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So I think we had really
good UI designers.

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And they were really quick.

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quick being able
to implement it.

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But the bad part was that we
were really late in coming up

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with design decisions.

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We didn't start
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we wanted to convey
the game to the player

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and how we wanted to make the
player feel about the game

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until really late
in the project.

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We focused more on what
the client needed as far

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as mechanics and not really
what the player was getting out

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of the game.

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So in the future,
definitely we need

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to think about design
right from the get-go.

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And we need to start prototyping
all the ideas that we have

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and testing them
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TEJ CHAJED: So in summary,
the high points of our project

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are that we did make
the client happy.

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And they've been using our
application and the game.

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And they really like the game.

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We're glad that
we focused on fun.

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The game has been
fun throughout.

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And players seem
to really enjoy it.

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And I think maybe this is just
because of the core concept.

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And we're glad that, even though
this is an educational game,

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it is intended for purposes
honestly of data collection,

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people really enjoy playing it.

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Unfortunately, we had
slow design iteration.

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This prevented us from
really fully realizing

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all the ideas that we had
and figuring out which

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one would be best for players.

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In the future, we'd like
to get people more invested

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to try to solve these
issues and make sure

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that we best use
our time and create

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the best product possible.

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And with that, we'll
take questions.

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AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] Is there
a maximum number of players?

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TEJ CHAJED: We did
some stress tests

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to see how much the backend
on Heroku could support.

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And that seemed to work OK
up to 150 players or teams.

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We are not really sure
what the frontend might

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look like at 150 real players.

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That might be actually
the limiting factor.

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AUDIENCE: Is that
150 people playing

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the same session or in the
multiple sessions 150 people?

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TEJ CHAJED: We currently don't
support multiple sessions.

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This is actually a request that
the client repeatedly gave us.

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But we thought that it
was just much simpler

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to avoid that for now, because
it wasn't strictly necessary.

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Most likely, the
load on the backend

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would be the same,
whether they were

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split into multiple sessions.

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But this is a solvable problem
by getting a beefier backend.

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AUDIENCE: I see.

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But right now, the backend
supports 150 people

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logged in simultaneously.

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TEJ CHAJED: About 150.

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We can obviously pay money
to get better servers

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and then run with many more.

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AUDIENCE: OK.

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TEJ CHAJED: Any questions
from the audience?

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AUDIENCE: So you got
some feedback from Pablo

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specifically from the
moderator point of view.

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And I'm wondering whether you
got any indication about what

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the players felt outside of
this class plus your [INAUDIBLE]

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TEJ CHAJED: Sure, I think we
can both talk about our focus

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tests, where we played with
players outside this class.

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SABRINA DRAMMIS: Yeah, so
one of the main things,

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I played with maybe a
group of at most 10 people.

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And they knew each
other, so they

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wanted to know who they
were snapping with.

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And they wanted to see
the names of all the dots,

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so they could know
who they were beating

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or who they needed
to catch up to.

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But this would be unreasonable
in a large environment,

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especially when all the
people at the conference

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probably don't know each other.

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But I think that would be
a really cool thing to do,

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if we continued working
on this in the future.

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TEJ CHAJED: And I also
ran a similar test

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with people that
knew each other.

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And they actually used it
as part of their strategy.

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They knew what
other players would

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be submitting for that topic.

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And they could use that
to their advantage.

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So, for example, we did a
topic of systems papers.

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And we had a professor
in the group,

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so his paper showed up a bunch.

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And I would echo what Sabrina
said, that players really

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wanted more feedback
around the actual players

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in the game, which we
specifically didn't do,

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because the client didn't care.

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And in conferences, people
don't generally know each other.

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But I think that
if we were to use

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this as a more popular game,
then definitely focusing

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on players and getting
more feedback, especially

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after the game is over.

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People wanted to know who
they were snapping with.

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They wanted to see that graph,
all those lines overlaid,

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so they could see who they
were snapping with most often.

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AUDIENCE: Does the team
have any plans for this game

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after this class?

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I was wondering if you've
ever had discussions yet.

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TEJ CHAJED: I think we
haven't discussed that yet.

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But I think definitely
we're interested in it.

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AUDIENCE: Thank you.

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TEJ CHAJED: Thank you.

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MATT: Hello.

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We are Hello waves.

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We're game about
forecasting, specifically

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this idea called forecast-based
financing of using forecast

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to make decisions about
possible disasters in the future

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and how to prepare for them.

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We would actually like to start
with a playthrough of our game.

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So if anybody would like to
be a volunteer to try it out.

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AUDIENCE: A guest from
not our class, if one

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could please come down, Andrew.

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AUDIENCE: Thank you
for volunteering.

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ANDREW: Hi, I'm Andrew.

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AUDIENCE: Well, do
you need a chair?

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AUDIENCE: Here's one.

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MATT: I'm not quite sure how
to make that full screen.

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But anyways, this is our game.

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I'd recommend looking
at the instructions

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first and reading through them.

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Thanks.

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And we'll keep the
description minimal

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as you read through it just
to sort of show the player's

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initial reaction to it.

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ANDREW: Now, this
is real, correct?

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NORMAN: You're signed on?

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MATT: Oh, is it?

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Oh.

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NORMAN: Yeah, right.

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OK, sorry.

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Music.

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MATT: Yeah, start up again.

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So as you can see, our
game, as I said before,

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you control some toys
on a day at the beach.

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And so by dragging and dropping
them between the castles,

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you'll see that their
statuses change and say

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that they want to move
on their next turn,

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or that they want
to be collecting--

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or that they're going to be
collecting candy, or anything

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like that.

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And the game is turned based.

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So all the actions will
resolve on the next turn.

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ANDREW: Am I rating this race?

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MATT: Yeah.

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NORMAN: You can also access the
help through the lower right

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corner as well.

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MATT: And so when you
go to the next turn,

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you'll see all the toys move
as specified by the status

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bubble above their heads.

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ANDREW: So I go to the next
turn, or do I get a next turn?

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MATT: But unfortunately,
you'll find

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that when toys have been
evacuated, they're unhappy

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and need candy to survive,
so they'll all take damage.

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ANDREW: They don't
want you to evacuate.

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MATT: You can try returning
them to their homes.

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NORMAN: And so you'll
see that on this turn

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instead, now they have
their statuses set

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to gathering candy, except for
the dump truck, who is still

494
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evacuated.

495
00:24:46,394 --> 00:24:49,328
ANDREW: Got you, OK.

496
00:24:49,328 --> 00:24:50,795
But he needs to be evacuated.

497
00:24:58,130 --> 00:25:01,450
NORMAN: Exactly.

498
00:25:01,450 --> 00:25:03,927
And so the idea is that as
a player plays through it,

499
00:25:03,927 --> 00:25:06,260
they get better at understanding
how to use the forecast

500
00:25:06,260 --> 00:25:09,447
to make decisions
about the future,

501
00:25:09,447 --> 00:25:12,030
both in terms of how much candy
that they need to have stocked

502
00:25:12,030 --> 00:25:14,880
up in order to weather
out the rising tides

503
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,100
and also in terms
of when they're

504
00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:19,610
going to need to move
their workers out

505
00:25:19,610 --> 00:25:22,244
of-- their toys out of the
areas that are in danger.

506
00:25:22,244 --> 00:25:24,077
ANDREW: They're going
to be really impacted.

507
00:25:58,636 --> 00:26:00,340
MATT: I think you
have those two guys.

508
00:26:00,340 --> 00:26:02,276
ANDREW: Oh, they're in there?

509
00:26:02,276 --> 00:26:04,440
Is there a reminder
of where they started?

510
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,190
MATT: Yeah, it's on the castle.

511
00:26:06,190 --> 00:26:08,555
It's actually blocked
out right now,

512
00:26:08,555 --> 00:26:10,930
but toward the front of it.

513
00:26:10,930 --> 00:26:14,160
But there's a little
shadow there, an imprint.

514
00:26:21,910 --> 00:26:25,580
Because he ran out of candy
and then-- or actually, sorry,

515
00:26:25,580 --> 00:26:27,629
because he went to a
place that was underwater,

516
00:26:27,629 --> 00:26:30,170
he took too much damage and then
was swept away by the waves.

517
00:26:42,772 --> 00:26:44,230
And so on the
forecast, you can see

518
00:26:44,230 --> 00:26:48,090
that high water is coming
for quite a while, which

519
00:26:48,090 --> 00:26:49,720
is going to be a
danger for the toys,

520
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,960
both in terms of possibly
getting swept away

521
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,509
and not having enough candy for
all the toys that you're going

522
00:26:56,509 --> 00:26:57,800
to have to move out of the way.

523
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,716
ANDREW: [INAUDIBLE] this time.

524
00:27:02,590 --> 00:27:05,925
NORMAN: Oh, he may
be out of luck.

525
00:27:05,925 --> 00:27:06,637
MATT: Yeah.

526
00:27:09,810 --> 00:27:14,370
And when you've lost two
toys, you lose the game.

527
00:27:14,370 --> 00:27:15,320
ANDREW: OK.

528
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:16,510
MATT: Thank you for playing.

529
00:27:21,319 --> 00:27:22,235
So that's Hello waves.

530
00:27:27,660 --> 00:27:35,560
So in our game, we had a
few challenges to overcome.

531
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,060
The first was that
our game was based

532
00:27:39,060 --> 00:27:43,820
on forecast-based financing,
which is a very abstract topic.

533
00:27:43,820 --> 00:27:46,090
It's a pretty
understandable idea

534
00:27:46,090 --> 00:27:48,870
of using information about
the future and ideas of risk

535
00:27:48,870 --> 00:27:51,540
in order to decide where
to allocate resources.

536
00:27:51,540 --> 00:27:53,790
But it's still a bit abstract.

537
00:27:53,790 --> 00:27:57,706
And building a game around
it took a little bit of work.

538
00:27:57,706 --> 00:27:59,330
It's useful to note
that it's different

539
00:27:59,330 --> 00:28:00,420
than long-term planning.

540
00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:03,370
It's not just thinking about
what will happen in the future,

541
00:28:03,370 --> 00:28:06,410
building a dam to prevent
water or things like that.

542
00:28:06,410 --> 00:28:09,000
And it's actually about
using the information

543
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,380
you have to make the
best decision for events

544
00:28:11,380 --> 00:28:15,750
that may be upcoming in
the semi-near future.

545
00:28:15,750 --> 00:28:17,730
We also wanted to avoid
making a game that

546
00:28:17,730 --> 00:28:21,340
was overly preachy or
simplified, where it was clear

547
00:28:21,340 --> 00:28:22,936
exactly how you're going to win.

548
00:28:22,936 --> 00:28:24,310
And you could just
basically push

549
00:28:24,310 --> 00:28:26,770
the forecast-based financing
button to win the game.

550
00:28:26,770 --> 00:28:28,860
We wanted players to
actually think and understand

551
00:28:28,860 --> 00:28:31,830
the concepts there,
instead of just coming up

552
00:28:31,830 --> 00:28:34,470
with the buzzword of
forecast-based financing.

553
00:28:34,470 --> 00:28:36,002
And finally, we
had the challenge

554
00:28:36,002 --> 00:28:38,460
of actually communicating that
forecast to players in a way

555
00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:40,010
that they would be
able to understand

556
00:28:40,010 --> 00:28:41,340
and then make use of.

557
00:28:41,340 --> 00:28:43,620
You could see in that game
that we had water levels

558
00:28:43,620 --> 00:28:45,130
and it would show on the map.

559
00:28:45,130 --> 00:28:47,640
And we found that players
were pretty good at using that

560
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,950
in order to make
decisions about what

561
00:28:49,950 --> 00:28:51,470
was going to happen
in the future

562
00:28:51,470 --> 00:28:53,294
and how to allocate
their resources.

563
00:28:53,294 --> 00:28:55,460
The other big challenge
that we had in the beginning

564
00:28:55,460 --> 00:28:59,310
was that our initial target
audience was policymakers.

565
00:28:59,310 --> 00:29:03,021
Like for Snap, Pablo had come in
and pitched us this game idea.

566
00:29:03,021 --> 00:29:05,020
And originally, he had
wanted us to build a game

567
00:29:05,020 --> 00:29:07,640
for policymakers that
would help them understand

568
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,600
the benefits of
forecast-based financing

569
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,850
and, therefore, convince
them that they should develop

570
00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:15,240
policies that would give
resources to plans based

571
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,770
on forecast-based financing.

572
00:29:17,770 --> 00:29:19,760
So I would like to take
you through a couple

573
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,720
of our prototypes just to show
you the evolution and comment

574
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,570
sort of on our process.

575
00:29:26,570 --> 00:29:31,300
Actually, to preface that,
we had a lot of prototypes,

576
00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:33,310
because of our idea
was so abstract

577
00:29:33,310 --> 00:29:35,910
and because we weren't sure
how to address our audience.

578
00:29:35,910 --> 00:29:38,670
So we built a lot of
prototypes to start with.

579
00:29:38,670 --> 00:29:42,454
We had ideas that ranged
across sort of levels of scope

580
00:29:42,454 --> 00:29:44,870
of what you controlled, where
you controlled entire cities

581
00:29:44,870 --> 00:29:46,619
or where you controlled
individual workers

582
00:29:46,619 --> 00:29:47,780
and moved them around.

583
00:29:47,780 --> 00:29:49,540
And then we would pull from
all these different kinds

584
00:29:49,540 --> 00:29:51,800
of ideas what worked, what
didn't, what did people

585
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,760
understand, what confused them.

586
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,820
And from that, we got
a really good idea

587
00:29:55,820 --> 00:29:58,660
of what concepts helped
people understand the idea

588
00:29:58,660 --> 00:30:02,710
and brought them into this final
game that we ended up with.

589
00:30:02,710 --> 00:30:05,530
So the project
started on October 15.

590
00:30:05,530 --> 00:30:07,110
And this was our
first prototype.

591
00:30:07,110 --> 00:30:09,210
It was a terminal-based
game, where

592
00:30:09,210 --> 00:30:12,330
you had some kind of information
about a future rainfall.

593
00:30:12,330 --> 00:30:15,140
And then you had to type in your
commands of how you controlled

594
00:30:15,140 --> 00:30:16,900
different cities.

595
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:19,720
This, actually,
people found it fun.

596
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,410
But as you might expect, the
feedback wasn't very good.

597
00:30:22,410 --> 00:30:24,220
And people didn't
quite understand

598
00:30:24,220 --> 00:30:26,510
how to move forward with it.

599
00:30:26,510 --> 00:30:29,110
It put a lot of
cognitive load on people.

600
00:30:29,110 --> 00:30:31,340
So when we moved
forward, we tried

601
00:30:31,340 --> 00:30:35,660
to give people more easily
understandable actions to use.

602
00:30:35,660 --> 00:30:38,710
But the problem with this game
was that it was time based

603
00:30:38,710 --> 00:30:39,940
and it updated every second.

604
00:30:39,940 --> 00:30:41,815
And so there are so
numbers flying at people,

605
00:30:41,815 --> 00:30:44,690
like even MIT students who play
tested it couldn't understand.

606
00:30:44,690 --> 00:30:46,920
So we figured that
people like policymakers,

607
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,880
who didn't have much
experience with games,

608
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,590
really wouldn't be able to
understand the game at all.

609
00:30:51,590 --> 00:30:53,930
So instead, we
went to turn based.

610
00:30:53,930 --> 00:30:55,260
And that helped.

611
00:30:55,260 --> 00:30:58,730
But at the same time, it's
tough to see on this projector,

612
00:30:58,730 --> 00:31:00,560
but we have a forecast
underneath that says

613
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,260
how much rainfall is expected.

614
00:31:02,260 --> 00:31:04,260
And again, that wasn't
understandable to people,

615
00:31:04,260 --> 00:31:06,843
because they couldn't understand
what three inches of rainfall

616
00:31:06,843 --> 00:31:08,029
meant for their city.

617
00:31:08,029 --> 00:31:10,070
And they couldn't understand
how that contributed

618
00:31:10,070 --> 00:31:11,652
to a possible disaster.

619
00:31:11,652 --> 00:31:13,610
At this point, Pablo
actually came by the class

620
00:31:13,610 --> 00:31:14,900
and played the game.

621
00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:17,270
And then he told us
that he wasn't even sure

622
00:31:17,270 --> 00:31:19,300
that he could get
policymakers to play the game,

623
00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:21,090
because they may not
have enough time.

624
00:31:21,090 --> 00:31:23,789
Instead, he wanted us to
switch to grade schoolers,

625
00:31:23,789 --> 00:31:25,330
because we could
teach them something

626
00:31:25,330 --> 00:31:27,660
about forecast-based financing
and help them understand

627
00:31:27,660 --> 00:31:30,052
as they grew up.

628
00:31:30,052 --> 00:31:31,760
And this was great
for us, because making

629
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,230
a game that was serious,
easy for somebody

630
00:31:34,230 --> 00:31:36,770
who didn't have experience
with games to play, and also

631
00:31:36,770 --> 00:31:40,680
fun and engaging was too
difficult for us actually.

632
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,930
So moving to grade
schoolers was awesome.

633
00:31:43,930 --> 00:31:48,310
He also suggested that we try
to make the idea of rainfall

634
00:31:48,310 --> 00:31:50,990
or water levels more visceral.

635
00:31:50,990 --> 00:31:54,450
And that's when we came upon
this idea of the rising waters.

636
00:31:54,450 --> 00:31:56,830
Whenever players looked
at this, they instantly

637
00:31:56,830 --> 00:31:58,480
understood the
concept of the game.

638
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,150
The feedback might not be there.

639
00:32:00,150 --> 00:32:02,710
The beautiful UI
might not be there.

640
00:32:02,710 --> 00:32:05,020
But the idea of having
cities with workers in them

641
00:32:05,020 --> 00:32:07,890
and a rising water level
coming towards them, everybody

642
00:32:07,890 --> 00:32:08,800
understood that.

643
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,425
And it made it a lot
easier for players

644
00:32:10,425 --> 00:32:12,220
to reason about the game.

645
00:32:12,220 --> 00:32:15,170
From there, we added things
like nicer art, better feedback,

646
00:32:15,170 --> 00:32:18,770
which you can't quite see
in the static picture, more

647
00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:21,300
improvements to how
the forecast worked.

648
00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:27,740
And eventually, we ended up
with our final version today.

649
00:32:27,740 --> 00:32:31,180
NORMAN: So to talk a little bit
about our actual development

650
00:32:31,180 --> 00:32:33,820
process, so our team was
structured into three

651
00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:36,270
main subteams, production,
which was in charge

652
00:32:36,270 --> 00:32:39,700
of managerial roles,
deliverables, and play testing,

653
00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:44,260
and so there was a shared
responsibility there;

654
00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:45,900
technical team,
which was in charge

655
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:49,450
of the bulk of the coding
work; and a user experience

656
00:32:49,450 --> 00:32:52,910
team, which would be in charge
of assets, UI design, and UI

657
00:32:52,910 --> 00:32:54,260
design.

658
00:32:54,260 --> 00:32:57,750
We also initially
envisioned subteam leaders,

659
00:32:57,750 --> 00:33:00,460
where we'd be kind of
communicating through them.

660
00:33:00,460 --> 00:33:02,450
But we found the concept
kind of redundant.

661
00:33:02,450 --> 00:33:05,420
And so we've worked pretty
much with like a flat structure

662
00:33:05,420 --> 00:33:08,570
between the three teams.

663
00:33:08,570 --> 00:33:12,140
So from the beginning,
we encouraged good coding

664
00:33:12,140 --> 00:33:12,640
practice.

665
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,430
And so we used good
tools available to us.

666
00:33:16,430 --> 00:33:19,470
One of these is Yeoman, which
is a JavaScript scaffolding

667
00:33:19,470 --> 00:33:21,470
framework.

668
00:33:21,470 --> 00:33:24,890
And this helped us out a
lot by basically automating

669
00:33:24,890 --> 00:33:29,670
a lot of our JavaScript tasks
and making our code modular.

670
00:33:29,670 --> 00:33:32,780
We also used Phaser
state machine,

671
00:33:32,780 --> 00:33:37,430
which is this kind of badly
documented new feature

672
00:33:37,430 --> 00:33:40,380
in the Phaser game engine,
which was the JavaScript game

673
00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:42,940
engine that we used.

674
00:33:42,940 --> 00:33:45,730
It's a bit badly documented.

675
00:33:45,730 --> 00:33:47,520
But it did save us
a lot of headaches.

676
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,200
And once we figured that out,
that proved immensely helpful.

677
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:57,240
And we also used MVC, which is
a computer software engineering

678
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,810
term standing for
Model View Controller.

679
00:33:59,810 --> 00:34:03,360
And again, by encouraging
these good coding practices,

680
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,940
we reduced dependencies and
made sure that our team was

681
00:34:06,940 --> 00:34:09,120
productive.

682
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,480
In terms of communication,
we also, similar to Snap,

683
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,150
used Slack, which is kind of
like a modernized chatrooms.

684
00:34:15,150 --> 00:34:16,860
It's very feature rich.

685
00:34:16,860 --> 00:34:20,360
And so you can share files,
channels, and things like that.

686
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,870
And we also use the
idea of the Daily Scrum.

687
00:34:23,870 --> 00:34:26,070
We implemented it in class.

688
00:34:26,070 --> 00:34:29,219
And we would say what we
had done that class, what

689
00:34:29,219 --> 00:34:35,300
we would be doing, and what we
wanted to do until next class.

690
00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:38,560
And so now, the major
challenges that we

691
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,860
faced during the development
process though where

692
00:34:41,860 --> 00:34:44,960
that our team members came
from very different backgrounds

693
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,679
and had very different
preferences about games.

694
00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:51,679
Some of our team members are
very hardcore StarCraft players

695
00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:55,980
and very good at RTS games,
while other members of our team

696
00:34:55,980 --> 00:34:59,920
preferred like a more laid
back mobile game Fruit Ninja

697
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:01,120
kind of approach.

698
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,040
And so trying to mediate
those two viewpoints

699
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,650
and trying to create
a game that would

700
00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:11,550
engage both types of
gamers was a challenge

701
00:35:11,550 --> 00:35:14,660
that we had to overcome.

702
00:35:14,660 --> 00:35:18,000
And so another big challenge
that we had in our development

703
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,105
process, as you saw
through our progression

704
00:35:22,105 --> 00:35:23,480
through our
different prototypes,

705
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,640
was that our direction was not
very clear, until about halfway

706
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:28,930
through the project.

707
00:35:28,930 --> 00:35:32,630
And so partially because we
had different ideas on what

708
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:36,020
the game should look like and
also partially because we had

709
00:35:36,020 --> 00:35:38,670
such an abstract idea of
forecast-based financing

710
00:35:38,670 --> 00:35:43,890
that even we didn't have that
good of a grasp on initially,

711
00:35:43,890 --> 00:35:46,220
it took us a while
to really get settled

712
00:35:46,220 --> 00:35:47,880
on what we wanted to build.

713
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:52,400
And so this really challenged
our development process

714
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:58,340
and made us have to build a
lot before we got something

715
00:35:58,340 --> 00:36:01,120
that we liked.

716
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,390
And so eventually,
we did end up having

717
00:36:04,390 --> 00:36:07,690
to cut some features
of like multiple levels

718
00:36:07,690 --> 00:36:10,670
or like a guided
tutorial for the player.

719
00:36:10,670 --> 00:36:14,500
We thought that this would
introduce too much new content

720
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:19,700
that would need to be play
tested, balanced, and tested

721
00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:22,420
to ensure consistency with
the rest of our game, which

722
00:36:22,420 --> 00:36:24,320
we viewed as taking
up too much time.

723
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:28,660
And we also cut the idea of
adding more individuality

724
00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:32,270
to the workers or to
the toys that you saw,

725
00:36:32,270 --> 00:36:34,150
other than different
graphics for each.

726
00:36:37,830 --> 00:36:40,647
MATT: Some of the worst
things that we did on our team

727
00:36:40,647 --> 00:36:42,230
is that we spent a
lot of time on work

728
00:36:42,230 --> 00:36:44,150
that got thrown out entirely.

729
00:36:44,150 --> 00:36:47,420
All the prototypes we did, they
were actually pretty useful,

730
00:36:47,420 --> 00:36:50,420
because of the things we learned
about the concept and about

731
00:36:50,420 --> 00:36:52,070
how people would play the game.

732
00:36:52,070 --> 00:36:53,920
But we did spend a
lot of time on things

733
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,420
like art or nitty gritty
details that didn't really

734
00:36:57,420 --> 00:36:59,670
need to be figured out and
that we could have put off

735
00:36:59,670 --> 00:37:02,320
until later in the project.

736
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,640
We also kept the game direction
too vague for too long.

737
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,630
As Norman said, we spent
a lot of time with that.

738
00:37:09,630 --> 00:37:12,800
And it probably ate up
too much of our time.

739
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,780
Although it helped
us learn, we could

740
00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:16,650
have moved faster
in the beginning

741
00:37:16,650 --> 00:37:18,120
to get to a solid idea.

742
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,670
Because once we got to a solid
idea of the rising waters,

743
00:37:21,670 --> 00:37:24,170
our team started to
centralize around it

744
00:37:24,170 --> 00:37:26,730
a lot better, because
we could actually

745
00:37:26,730 --> 00:37:27,970
deal with something concrete.

746
00:37:27,970 --> 00:37:30,030
While we were dealing
with the abstract ideas,

747
00:37:30,030 --> 00:37:32,540
everybody was all over the
place and arguing about things

748
00:37:32,540 --> 00:37:35,040
that didn't quite line up.

749
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,430
And the worst decision of
all that we started with

750
00:37:38,430 --> 00:37:41,200
and that sort of made the
problem of going too vague

751
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,791
and all these
other things happen

752
00:37:42,791 --> 00:37:44,290
is that we were
originally thinking,

753
00:37:44,290 --> 00:37:48,030
how do we skin forecast
based financing as a game?

754
00:37:48,030 --> 00:37:50,690
How do we take this
idea of using forecast

755
00:37:50,690 --> 00:37:54,210
to make decisions and
then just gamify it,

756
00:37:54,210 --> 00:37:57,650
which we eventually
realized wasn't fun

757
00:37:57,650 --> 00:38:00,557
and didn't help us actually
come up with any ideas.

758
00:38:00,557 --> 00:38:02,140
Instead when we
flipped it and started

759
00:38:02,140 --> 00:38:05,260
talking about what game
could we create and use

760
00:38:05,260 --> 00:38:09,140
forecast-based financing to
improve it and teach players

761
00:38:09,140 --> 00:38:12,390
how to play the game and,
therefore, allow them to come

762
00:38:12,390 --> 00:38:15,220
out of the game, having learned
about forecast-based financing,

763
00:38:15,220 --> 00:38:16,530
the world sort of opened up.

764
00:38:16,530 --> 00:38:18,238
Everything became a
lot more interesting.

765
00:38:18,238 --> 00:38:21,892
And we found that we
started to move faster.

766
00:38:21,892 --> 00:38:24,350
Some of the best decisions that
we made, on the other hand,

767
00:38:24,350 --> 00:38:26,520
as Norman said,
we had good tools,

768
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,610
which meant that even when
we threw out prototypes,

769
00:38:29,610 --> 00:38:33,020
although we wasted things
like art resources and things

770
00:38:33,020 --> 00:38:36,350
like that, we actually didn't
end up wasting very much code,

771
00:38:36,350 --> 00:38:39,000
because things like the
idea of workers or cities

772
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,500
could literally be pulled
out of the old games we had,

773
00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:43,870
put into our new game,
and then reworked

774
00:38:43,870 --> 00:38:47,670
to build our new structure.

775
00:38:47,670 --> 00:38:49,510
We also weren't afraid
to trust each other

776
00:38:49,510 --> 00:38:52,210
and throw out the
things that didn't work.

777
00:38:52,210 --> 00:38:53,890
Once we started
moving fast, we had

778
00:38:53,890 --> 00:38:55,575
a lot of ideas that
would come out,

779
00:38:55,575 --> 00:38:57,680
and we would say, OK,
this doesn't work.

780
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,290
We're actually
going to scrap it.

781
00:38:59,290 --> 00:39:03,210
Or we think that this isn't
the direction we need to go in.

782
00:39:03,210 --> 00:39:06,641
And everybody was willing
to go along with it.

783
00:39:06,641 --> 00:39:08,890
It's not a good feeling to
see your things thrown out.

784
00:39:08,890 --> 00:39:11,310
But everybody understood that
was for the best of the game.

785
00:39:11,310 --> 00:39:13,768
And I really appreciate their
understanding with everything

786
00:39:13,768 --> 00:39:14,710
too.

787
00:39:14,710 --> 00:39:16,710
And part of that all
comes down to the fact

788
00:39:16,710 --> 00:39:18,900
that we were on board
with our final idea.

789
00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:21,465
We were all excited about
the concept that we had.

790
00:39:21,465 --> 00:39:23,090
Part of that might
have been the relief

791
00:39:23,090 --> 00:39:24,881
of coming to a concrete
idea after spending

792
00:39:24,881 --> 00:39:26,330
so much time being vague.

793
00:39:26,330 --> 00:39:28,080
But once we had
the concrete idea,

794
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:32,120
we really moved fast and
worked well around it.

795
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:33,875
So thank you and any questions.

796
00:39:41,495 --> 00:39:42,968
AUDIENCE: Who did your sound?

797
00:39:42,968 --> 00:39:44,932
It's awesome.

798
00:39:44,932 --> 00:39:47,040
MATT: That was from our UI team.

799
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:48,510
AUDIENCE: Oh, [INAUDIBLE].

800
00:39:48,510 --> 00:39:50,329
OK, I really liked it.

801
00:39:50,329 --> 00:39:50,995
MATT: Thank you.

802
00:39:50,995 --> 00:39:52,450
AUDIENCE: Where did you find it?

803
00:39:52,450 --> 00:39:54,120
NORMAN: So it's on
our credits page.

804
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,691
Most of it was online.

805
00:39:56,691 --> 00:39:58,152
The credits page in our game.

806
00:40:04,483 --> 00:40:06,431
AUDIENCE: And so you
don't want to type it in.

807
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,830
MATT: It's a little
small, I guess, up here.

808
00:40:11,830 --> 00:40:13,637
AUDIENCE: Oh, OK, great.

809
00:40:13,637 --> 00:40:14,470
MATT: But it looks--

810
00:40:14,470 --> 00:40:15,678
AUDIENCE: [? Switch games. ?]

811
00:40:15,678 --> 00:40:17,540
NORMAN: Yeah, "Hold
My Hand," AGP by--

812
00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:19,790
AUDIENCE: Would it be possible
to do a [? shortened ?]

813
00:40:19,790 --> 00:40:21,646
URL of these?

814
00:40:21,646 --> 00:40:23,455
MATT: For the game?

815
00:40:23,455 --> 00:40:24,381
Oh, yeah, sure.

816
00:40:24,381 --> 00:40:26,880
We can make a Bitly link, and
we'll send it out to everyone.

817
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,652
AUDIENCE: Yeah, just
to entire-- yeah.

818
00:40:29,652 --> 00:40:32,370
MATT: That's a good call.

819
00:40:32,370 --> 00:40:33,025
Yes.

820
00:40:33,025 --> 00:40:35,270
AUDIENCE: Having
watched the early crash

821
00:40:35,270 --> 00:40:38,712
and burn playthrough,
how often do people--

822
00:40:38,712 --> 00:40:40,170
I don't know if
you've actually had

823
00:40:40,170 --> 00:40:43,242
a lot of people to play your
current version of your game.

824
00:40:43,242 --> 00:40:45,100
Do people usually take
a playthrough or two

825
00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:47,790
before they start
getting the concept?

826
00:40:47,790 --> 00:40:49,070
MATT: Yes.

827
00:40:49,070 --> 00:40:52,274
That's why something like a
tutorial would be really nice.

828
00:40:52,274 --> 00:40:54,440
Unfortunately, we didn't
have the time to put it in.

829
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:55,580
AUDIENCE: Yeah, no.

830
00:40:55,580 --> 00:40:56,870
I was wondering how that-- OK.

831
00:40:56,870 --> 00:40:58,900
MATT: Yeah, usually
what happens is,

832
00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:02,750
even if after maybe a couple of
turns of playing through they

833
00:41:02,750 --> 00:41:05,430
start to get the idea,
the problem is that,

834
00:41:05,430 --> 00:41:08,310
as the water starts to rise,
they haven't prepared enough.

835
00:41:08,310 --> 00:41:12,180
And so all their workers or
the toys will starve or get

836
00:41:12,180 --> 00:41:14,784
carried away by the waves,
which is a bit unfortunate

837
00:41:14,784 --> 00:41:17,200
and probably makes the players
feel bad on the first time.

838
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:18,992
But then they-- it
actually teaches

839
00:41:18,992 --> 00:41:20,200
them to think ahead about it.

840
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,640
So the next playthrough,
they're much more careful

841
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:23,390
and understanding.

842
00:41:26,390 --> 00:41:30,090
AUDIENCE: Yes, I
was wondering if you

843
00:41:30,090 --> 00:41:34,920
were playing any other games
or thinking about other games

844
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,160
as the inspiration
or thinking about how

845
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,946
to deal with sort of
getting the right level

846
00:41:39,946 --> 00:41:43,738
of strategic thinking
in your game.

847
00:41:43,738 --> 00:41:47,750
NORMAN: Well, so I guess
in terms of early on.

848
00:41:47,750 --> 00:41:49,470
Because we had a
very different idea

849
00:41:49,470 --> 00:41:52,720
of what we wanted to do
early on in the process,

850
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:55,760
we were thinking about games
like Civilization and how

851
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,030
did they communicate all
these complex worker movements

852
00:41:59,030 --> 00:42:01,400
and managing multiple cities.

853
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,410
But once we actually came
up with this game concept,

854
00:42:05,410 --> 00:42:09,960
I think we had much,
much smaller goals.

855
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:14,752
And so did we have any specific
game models, do you think?

856
00:42:14,752 --> 00:42:17,910
MATT: There is none that
I specifically think of.

857
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:21,160
There were some things that
we were sort of inspired by,

858
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,550
standard tricks,
like when you hover

859
00:42:23,550 --> 00:42:25,050
over one of the
characters, they got

860
00:42:25,050 --> 00:42:28,562
bigger, some idea of showing
off that this is clickable,

861
00:42:28,562 --> 00:42:29,270
things like that.

862
00:42:29,270 --> 00:42:33,330
But specific games
themselves, not really.

863
00:42:33,330 --> 00:42:35,665
AUDIENCE: I was just
thinking it ended up

864
00:42:35,665 --> 00:42:37,540
being kind of war gamey.

865
00:42:37,540 --> 00:42:39,680
And I feel like there's
a lot of war games

866
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,553
that where I'd thinking
a lot about getting

867
00:42:42,553 --> 00:42:48,469
that right level of I guess
tactics rather than strategy.

868
00:42:48,469 --> 00:42:50,934
But, yeah, I guess it
worked out kind of.

869
00:42:54,385 --> 00:42:56,460
AUDIENCE: So you
mentioned that you

870
00:42:56,460 --> 00:42:59,310
were able to completely
change how your workers looked

871
00:42:59,310 --> 00:43:00,805
and just keep your models.

872
00:43:00,805 --> 00:43:04,181
So that's sort of the Holy Grail
of object-oriented programming,

873
00:43:04,181 --> 00:43:06,129
that kind of object
that's reusable

874
00:43:06,129 --> 00:43:08,660
and you don't have to
throw out the code.

875
00:43:08,660 --> 00:43:10,911
Do you think there's a reason
why, in particular, you

876
00:43:10,911 --> 00:43:13,202
were able to achieve that,
because I think that's not--

877
00:43:13,202 --> 00:43:15,940
that's not common necessarily
in object-oriented programming?

878
00:43:19,314 --> 00:43:22,400
NORMAN: Partially, a
little bit of OCD-ness

879
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,850
like very early on,
very strictly saying

880
00:43:25,850 --> 00:43:27,960
we're going to write this
object-oriented code,

881
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,210
and we're not just going
to hack things together.

882
00:43:30,210 --> 00:43:33,020
I think that helped a
lot, because we actually

883
00:43:33,020 --> 00:43:34,760
spent the time in
the very beginning

884
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,000
to think about
like which objects

885
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,860
were responsible for what and
what their purpose should be.

886
00:43:42,860 --> 00:43:44,840
Yeah, basically,
I think because we

887
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,640
moved more slowly in
the start and thought

888
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,340
more carefully about how that
code should be structured,

889
00:43:49,340 --> 00:43:52,800
we ended up with having
an easier time later on.

890
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,525
MATT: There's also the
fact that because we

891
00:43:55,525 --> 00:43:57,380
had learned these things
from the prototype

892
00:43:57,380 --> 00:43:59,970
that we are putting into
this game, that also meant

893
00:43:59,970 --> 00:44:04,840
that the objects that we
created because we wanted

894
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,190
similar functionality to
things that we had already seen

895
00:44:07,190 --> 00:44:09,070
and we knew worked,
it meant that we

896
00:44:09,070 --> 00:44:12,570
were comfortable pulling out
the functionality into that.

897
00:44:15,110 --> 00:44:17,190
I don't want to say it
was designed to fit.

898
00:44:17,190 --> 00:44:22,712
But there is the fact that we
moved it on purpose, really.

899
00:44:22,712 --> 00:44:24,930
AUDIENCE: I would like
to say something on it.

900
00:44:24,930 --> 00:44:28,770
So we had a very good MVC model.

901
00:44:28,770 --> 00:44:32,400
So models were at and has
a tree-like structure,

902
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,922
I think it was very easy to
change the model somewhere else

903
00:44:35,922 --> 00:44:37,889
[? and knew it ?]
involved-- sorry,

904
00:44:37,889 --> 00:44:40,264
used our new evolved models
once [? models and no idea ?]

905
00:44:40,264 --> 00:44:41,248
of what happens.

906
00:44:41,248 --> 00:44:43,708
So basically, it was
[INAUDIBLE] change.

907
00:44:48,136 --> 00:44:49,120
AUDIENCE: Thank you.

908
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:50,104
All right, thank you.

909
00:44:53,548 --> 00:44:55,640
MIRIAM: Hello, my
name is Miriam.

910
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,460
And today, I'm going to be
presenting for Team Heat Wave.

911
00:44:58,460 --> 00:45:01,110
And we made a game
called Heat Wave.

912
00:45:01,110 --> 00:45:05,600
So the goal of Heat
Wave was and is

913
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,370
to educate Red Cross
workers about how to prepare

914
00:45:08,370 --> 00:45:10,360
for and handle heat waves.

915
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,270
And if you've never been
through a heat wave,

916
00:45:12,270 --> 00:45:15,220
it's just defined as
elevated temperatures

917
00:45:15,220 --> 00:45:16,790
for an extended period of time.

918
00:45:16,790 --> 00:45:18,440
And the way you
prepare for that is you

919
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,330
set up umbrellas for shade.

920
00:45:20,330 --> 00:45:21,600
You get water coolers.

921
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,220
And during the
actual event, you try

922
00:45:23,220 --> 00:45:26,830
to go inside and drink an
excess amount of water.

923
00:45:26,830 --> 00:45:29,120
So while we had that
game goal, we also

924
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:34,220
had design goals of usability,
playability, and education--

925
00:45:34,220 --> 00:45:36,360
usability because if
the game doesn't open,

926
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,320
it doesn't turn on,
that's a problem,

927
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,531
it doesn't work, playability
because we wanted people

928
00:45:40,531 --> 00:45:42,280
to be able to play
through the whole game,

929
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,460
it's just very fundamental,
and education because this game

930
00:45:46,460 --> 00:45:49,310
is meant to educate Red
Cross workers about how

931
00:45:49,310 --> 00:45:50,340
to deal with heat waves.

932
00:45:50,340 --> 00:45:53,050
So we really wanted that to be
one of our primary objectives

933
00:45:53,050 --> 00:45:55,240
for the game.

934
00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:59,680
So to meet these goals, we
had our design processes.

935
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,410
And I'll talk a
little bit about each

936
00:46:01,410 --> 00:46:03,220
of these in detail in a minute.

937
00:46:03,220 --> 00:46:05,400
But we started off
just as the other teams

938
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,850
did with brainstorming.

939
00:46:06,850 --> 00:46:10,380
Then we formed a team
based off of our ideas.

940
00:46:10,380 --> 00:46:12,880
And then we broke
down responsibility.

941
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,080
So one person was in charge
of one aspect of the game.

942
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,320
Another was in charge
of like the graphics,

943
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:19,430
all separate tasks.

944
00:46:19,430 --> 00:46:21,030
And then we
continuously updated.

945
00:46:21,030 --> 00:46:23,970
And what we used for that
was Trello, primarily.

946
00:46:23,970 --> 00:46:25,720
And I'll talk more
about that in a minute.

947
00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:27,300
So brainstorming,
we were actually

948
00:46:27,300 --> 00:46:31,000
right there on the board
drawing things for a while.

949
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,800
And we had two major ideas
going as a group of people

950
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,840
just considering this topic.

951
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,340
The two ideas we had were the
game we actually came up with,

952
00:46:39,340 --> 00:46:43,490
where you play as a Red Cross
worker trying to help people.

953
00:46:43,490 --> 00:46:47,440
And then our second game
was playing as a heat wave,

954
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,910
trying to make people faint.

955
00:46:49,910 --> 00:46:52,050
And while that actually
sounds like a lot of fun,

956
00:46:52,050 --> 00:46:53,524
we stuck with the first idea.

957
00:46:53,524 --> 00:46:55,190
And the reason we did
that is we thought

958
00:46:55,190 --> 00:46:57,490
we could get more
education into the game.

959
00:46:57,490 --> 00:47:00,760
Because education was such
a primary focus for us,

960
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,547
we really wanted it to be
the core basis of the game.

961
00:47:03,547 --> 00:47:05,380
So we went with the
game that would directly

962
00:47:05,380 --> 00:47:07,470
correlate to what these
Red Cross workers would

963
00:47:07,470 --> 00:47:11,350
be doing out in the streets
before and during a heat wave.

964
00:47:11,350 --> 00:47:13,700
And based off of that
idea, we formed a team.

965
00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:15,480
We actually had a
pretty large team.

966
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,339
This is eight out of
nine of our people.

967
00:47:17,339 --> 00:47:19,380
Joe wasn't in this photo,
because he wasn't there

968
00:47:19,380 --> 00:47:20,010
that day.

969
00:47:20,010 --> 00:47:21,301
But we had a really large team.

970
00:47:21,301 --> 00:47:24,859
So we had to be really focused
as to like who was doing what

971
00:47:24,859 --> 00:47:26,150
and what was getting done when.

972
00:47:26,150 --> 00:47:27,816
Because when you have
such a large team,

973
00:47:27,816 --> 00:47:29,910
things can slip
through the cracks.

974
00:47:29,910 --> 00:47:31,840
So we used Scrum.

975
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,740
And as you can see up there,
it says so many emails,

976
00:47:34,740 --> 00:47:38,250
because there were
so many emails.

977
00:47:38,250 --> 00:47:41,600
But the way we dealt with that
based off of previous projects

978
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,850
was to say, well, we're going
to have a lot of emails.

979
00:47:43,850 --> 00:47:45,440
There's nothing we
can do about that.

980
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,010
But we can make the
emails relevant,

981
00:47:48,010 --> 00:47:50,520
so we can break them
into different threads.

982
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:54,327
So the people who were
handling the character objects,

983
00:47:54,327 --> 00:47:56,160
they're just going to
have their own thread.

984
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,270
And maybe like one person who's
communicating between teams

985
00:47:59,270 --> 00:48:00,740
will also be on that thread.

986
00:48:00,740 --> 00:48:02,320
But it's really their thread.

987
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:03,450
So we had a lot of emails.

988
00:48:03,450 --> 00:48:06,190
But they were divided up
as to who got to see them

989
00:48:06,190 --> 00:48:08,061
and who it affected.

990
00:48:08,061 --> 00:48:10,060
And the other thing we
did is we had our Trello.

991
00:48:10,060 --> 00:48:12,152
And we constantly updated that.

992
00:48:12,152 --> 00:48:13,610
And we kept track
of what was being

993
00:48:13,610 --> 00:48:15,960
done in this sprint
and previous sprints.

994
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,520
And it was really
easy to see what

995
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,150
was taking longer
than we expected

996
00:48:19,150 --> 00:48:22,805
and what was done, what was
done but could use improvements.

997
00:48:22,805 --> 00:48:23,930
Like you could make a note.

998
00:48:23,930 --> 00:48:26,080
We had like a
not-done-yet section.

999
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,840
So we really managed to
stay organized that way.

1000
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,220
And the other thing we
did to make sure things

1001
00:48:31,220 --> 00:48:32,650
got done was group meetings.

1002
00:48:32,650 --> 00:48:35,140
And these were quintessential
for our groups.

1003
00:48:35,140 --> 00:48:37,890
We had a bunch of like
three-hour long meetings.

1004
00:48:37,890 --> 00:48:40,250
And we would get
task after task done,

1005
00:48:40,250 --> 00:48:43,180
bug after bug fixed,
and really just worked

1006
00:48:43,180 --> 00:48:46,490
through for hours on end.

1007
00:48:46,490 --> 00:48:49,380
So once we had this game and
we were all working on it,

1008
00:48:49,380 --> 00:48:52,180
we had four focus
tests that we ran.

1009
00:48:52,180 --> 00:48:53,790
And they all had a theme.

1010
00:48:53,790 --> 00:48:57,210
So our first focus test
was about the concept,

1011
00:48:57,210 --> 00:49:01,650
can we educate people in
the basic mechanic of that

1012
00:49:01,650 --> 00:49:04,220
we think we're going to use.

1013
00:49:04,220 --> 00:49:05,780
And I'll talk about
that in a minute.

1014
00:49:05,780 --> 00:49:07,363
The second one was
overarching issues.

1015
00:49:07,363 --> 00:49:10,940
So I said our three design goals
were usability, playability,

1016
00:49:10,940 --> 00:49:11,740
and education.

1017
00:49:11,740 --> 00:49:13,860
So that was really our
second focus assessed.

1018
00:49:13,860 --> 00:49:16,010
The third focus
test was visuals.

1019
00:49:16,010 --> 00:49:17,650
Are we connecting with the user?

1020
00:49:17,650 --> 00:49:19,620
Are these the visuals
we want to have?

1021
00:49:19,620 --> 00:49:22,330
And then for the fourth
one was game balancing.

1022
00:49:22,330 --> 00:49:25,140
Does this game feel fun to play?

1023
00:49:25,140 --> 00:49:26,680
Is it working out?

1024
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:28,770
So the first focus
test, we focused

1025
00:49:28,770 --> 00:49:31,050
on the general mechanics.

1026
00:49:31,050 --> 00:49:35,170
We had a low fidelity
prototype, which is actually

1027
00:49:35,170 --> 00:49:36,610
a Python-based game.

1028
00:49:36,610 --> 00:49:37,940
And there was a list of people.

1029
00:49:37,940 --> 00:49:40,370
And you could say, I want
to talk to this person based

1030
00:49:40,370 --> 00:49:43,780
on some attributes and
offer them water, tell them

1031
00:49:43,780 --> 00:49:45,010
to go inside.

1032
00:49:45,010 --> 00:49:47,600
And each turn, you could either
continue talking to them,

1033
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,680
say forget it, you're
being annoying,

1034
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,390
or oh, you accepted
water, I'm going

1035
00:49:51,390 --> 00:49:52,639
to move on to the next person.

1036
00:49:52,639 --> 00:49:54,150
Or you could do nothing.

1037
00:49:54,150 --> 00:49:57,920
And what we learned very
quickly was that it was working.

1038
00:49:57,920 --> 00:49:59,850
People were choosing
to try and help

1039
00:49:59,850 --> 00:50:01,410
people based on
their characteristics

1040
00:50:01,410 --> 00:50:04,810
and based on oh, well, this
person fainted really quickly,

1041
00:50:04,810 --> 00:50:07,310
and they were homeless,
so I think homeless people

1042
00:50:07,310 --> 00:50:08,150
might faint faster.

1043
00:50:08,150 --> 00:50:10,066
Though actually, I don't
think homeless people

1044
00:50:10,066 --> 00:50:10,847
were in this game.

1045
00:50:10,847 --> 00:50:13,305
And we also experimented with
different types of dialogues.

1046
00:50:13,305 --> 00:50:16,300
So we experimented with having
like very factual dialogue,

1047
00:50:16,300 --> 00:50:18,000
drinking water is
really important,

1048
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,190
even if you're not too
thirsty versus something like,

1049
00:50:21,190 --> 00:50:23,990
hide your wife, hide
your kids heat wave.

1050
00:50:23,990 --> 00:50:27,830
So once we had that
general concept in place,

1051
00:50:27,830 --> 00:50:30,850
we built a basic unit game.

1052
00:50:30,850 --> 00:50:32,770
And we wanted to see
overarching issues.

1053
00:50:32,770 --> 00:50:35,580
So we had these
four-- well five,

1054
00:50:35,580 --> 00:50:38,160
but one person has already
fainted in this picture-- five

1055
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,649
different characters with
different attributes.

1056
00:50:40,649 --> 00:50:42,190
And you could choose
to talk to them.

1057
00:50:42,190 --> 00:50:44,390
It was the same
exact concept we had

1058
00:50:44,390 --> 00:50:46,760
in the Python text-based game.

1059
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,770
This time, it was a
little more visual.

1060
00:50:48,770 --> 00:50:52,040
There were people and there was
a dialogue that would show up.

1061
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,550
But it wasn't fully there yet.

1062
00:50:55,550 --> 00:50:59,470
And what we saw was the
usability and the playability

1063
00:50:59,470 --> 00:51:01,770
were definitely
having issues here.

1064
00:51:01,770 --> 00:51:02,945
You can see that.

1065
00:51:02,945 --> 00:51:05,070
But the education was
definitely coming through it.

1066
00:51:05,070 --> 00:51:07,522
In fact, people wanted
it to be more visual.

1067
00:51:07,522 --> 00:51:08,980
And we saw that,
and we said, well,

1068
00:51:08,980 --> 00:51:11,060
we have to test more visuals.

1069
00:51:11,060 --> 00:51:14,600
So you can see, this was
the version we tested later.

1070
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,392
And we said, how is
this working, who

1071
00:51:17,392 --> 00:51:18,600
are you choosing to click on?

1072
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,309
And people said, well, first
of all, it's confusing.

1073
00:51:21,309 --> 00:51:22,600
All these people look the same.

1074
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,210
I can kind of tell who's a
woman and who might be a man,

1075
00:51:26,210 --> 00:51:27,242
but that's about it.

1076
00:51:27,242 --> 00:51:28,950
The labels aren't
moving with the people.

1077
00:51:28,950 --> 00:51:30,500
Even if they were
moving with the people,

1078
00:51:30,500 --> 00:51:31,541
they're really too small.

1079
00:51:31,541 --> 00:51:32,850
We can't tell who's who.

1080
00:51:32,850 --> 00:51:35,025
And we said, well,
we have this art

1081
00:51:35,025 --> 00:51:36,400
that we think
we're going to redo

1082
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:37,590
all the art in the style of.

1083
00:51:37,590 --> 00:51:39,470
We're thinking about
getting rid of the labels.

1084
00:51:39,470 --> 00:51:40,310
Do you think that's a good idea?

1085
00:51:40,310 --> 00:51:42,059
And they said, yes,
get rid of the labels.

1086
00:51:42,059 --> 00:51:43,320
They're too small anyway.

1087
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,402
And so we showed them
this caricature of one

1088
00:51:45,402 --> 00:51:47,860
of the types of the characters,
which is a homeless person.

1089
00:51:47,860 --> 00:51:51,010
They're a very vulnerable
group to heat waves.

1090
00:51:51,010 --> 00:51:53,570
We said, this is kind of the
art style we were looking at.

1091
00:51:53,570 --> 00:51:54,840
We think it displays
more information.

1092
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:55,881
Do you think that's good?

1093
00:51:55,881 --> 00:51:58,370
And we got enormously
positive feedback on that.

1094
00:51:58,370 --> 00:52:00,810
They say, definitely, I
would click on this guy,

1095
00:52:00,810 --> 00:52:02,310
because he looks
like he needs help.

1096
00:52:02,310 --> 00:52:04,444
And you'll see that later.

1097
00:52:04,444 --> 00:52:06,610
Something else we were
having an issue with visually

1098
00:52:06,610 --> 00:52:08,940
was that the way
people would go inside

1099
00:52:08,940 --> 00:52:12,080
is they would just
kind of wander out.

1100
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,690
But the way they fainted, they
would actually just disappear,

1101
00:52:14,690 --> 00:52:15,860
proof.

1102
00:52:15,860 --> 00:52:18,335
So people didn't
notice it actually.

1103
00:52:18,335 --> 00:52:19,960
And then they'd
suddenly be like, well,

1104
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:21,590
there was 10 people,
and now there's

1105
00:52:21,590 --> 00:52:24,330
five people, and what happened?

1106
00:52:24,330 --> 00:52:27,280
So we said, OK, we
know this is an issue.

1107
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,220
What do you think would be
the best way to visually show

1108
00:52:30,220 --> 00:52:32,631
that people are fainting
and that would emotionally

1109
00:52:32,631 --> 00:52:33,380
resonate with you?

1110
00:52:33,380 --> 00:52:35,338
And they said, well, we
want them to fall over.

1111
00:52:35,338 --> 00:52:37,790
And maybe it'd be nice if
there were some other feedback,

1112
00:52:37,790 --> 00:52:39,810
like sound or something.

1113
00:52:39,810 --> 00:52:42,220
And we said, OK, we'll
take that a step farther.

1114
00:52:42,220 --> 00:52:43,890
And we did.

1115
00:52:43,890 --> 00:52:46,300
And we'll talk about that later.

1116
00:52:46,300 --> 00:52:47,850
And the third thing
that we really

1117
00:52:47,850 --> 00:52:51,410
got back from this visual
feedback focus test

1118
00:52:51,410 --> 00:52:54,230
was that there was no indication
when people were getting sick.

1119
00:52:54,230 --> 00:52:56,830
So in the real world,
if you're getting sick,

1120
00:52:56,830 --> 00:53:00,500
you might like turned
red, get really sweaty.

1121
00:53:00,500 --> 00:53:03,880
If you're about to faint, it'll
be very obvious is the point.

1122
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:05,260
And there was no
indication here.

1123
00:53:05,260 --> 00:53:07,080
So we said, well, we're going
to do something about it.

1124
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:08,310
We're going to put that
on the back burner,

1125
00:53:08,310 --> 00:53:09,320
keep thinking about it.

1126
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,010
And we are going to
fix that somehow.

1127
00:53:12,010 --> 00:53:14,300
And so we put that
all into practice.

1128
00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:16,180
And you'll see the
screens in a bit.

1129
00:53:16,180 --> 00:53:20,070
But our final focus test, we
focused on game balancing.

1130
00:53:20,070 --> 00:53:21,390
Is this game balanced?

1131
00:53:21,390 --> 00:53:23,470
Are people fainting
at a reasonable rate?

1132
00:53:23,470 --> 00:53:24,980
The problem was
that we would have

1133
00:53:24,980 --> 00:53:27,340
like six people all
fainting at the same time.

1134
00:53:27,340 --> 00:53:31,680
They said no, they have to
faint at different increments.

1135
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:33,510
And also on top of
that, we had an issue

1136
00:53:33,510 --> 00:53:36,170
where the temperature
was somewhat random,

1137
00:53:36,170 --> 00:53:37,510
going up and down.

1138
00:53:37,510 --> 00:53:39,780
And people were not
adjusting to that.

1139
00:53:39,780 --> 00:53:40,670
One day it was 110.

1140
00:53:40,670 --> 00:53:41,980
The next day was 80.

1141
00:53:41,980 --> 00:53:44,669
And that's in Fahrenheit,
because I assume most of you

1142
00:53:44,669 --> 00:53:45,710
use Fahrenheit typically.

1143
00:53:45,710 --> 00:53:47,760
But our game is
actually in Celsius now.

1144
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:49,690
But the idea was
that people were not

1145
00:53:49,690 --> 00:53:51,190
adjusting to this change.

1146
00:53:51,190 --> 00:53:52,770
And it wasn't realistic.

1147
00:53:52,770 --> 00:53:56,620
So what we do now is we actually
ramp up the temperature,

1148
00:53:56,620 --> 00:53:59,780
and so that the first day,
very few if any people faint.

1149
00:53:59,780 --> 00:54:01,790
And then the next day,
by the end of day,

1150
00:54:01,790 --> 00:54:03,880
people start fainting,
because it's getting hot.

1151
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:05,880
And then the third day,
they're fainting faster.

1152
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,680
And you'll see that in the
playthrough after this.

1153
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,550
So during this whole process, we
made some good and bad choices.

1154
00:54:11,550 --> 00:54:14,300
And I'd like to talk
about bad choices first.

1155
00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:17,000
So we made two major--
these were the two,

1156
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,580
I think, biggest
bad choices we made.

1157
00:54:19,580 --> 00:54:22,160
They're not completely
horrible or anything.

1158
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,690
The first was that we
depended on external code.

1159
00:54:24,690 --> 00:54:28,200
And the second is we focused
on education, not fun.

1160
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,140
So when I mentioned the external
code, one of our teammates

1161
00:54:31,140 --> 00:54:33,970
had a dialogue system
for unity, which

1162
00:54:33,970 --> 00:54:38,140
is really cool, it looked really
nice, had lot of features.

1163
00:54:38,140 --> 00:54:39,400
And we said, let's go for it.

1164
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:43,000
We can use this as a foundation
to build a really complex game.

1165
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,320
And something we really
didn't stop to think about

1166
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,930
was how much work is it
going to be to develop

1167
00:54:47,930 --> 00:54:49,774
our game around this system?

1168
00:54:49,774 --> 00:54:51,940
How much work is it going
to be to change the system

1169
00:54:51,940 --> 00:54:53,220
to fit our game?

1170
00:54:53,220 --> 00:54:57,570
And also are we going to
have time to do all of that

1171
00:54:57,570 --> 00:55:00,660
and also focus on making the
game complete as a whole,

1172
00:55:00,660 --> 00:55:03,680
instead of just kind of
showcasing this one aspect.

1173
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,120
And it turns out it was a
bit of a pitfall for us,

1174
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,280
because we didn't expect it to
take as much time as it did.

1175
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,150
And if we were to go back,
the teams kind of said,

1176
00:55:12,150 --> 00:55:15,940
well, maybe we still do this
and we just deal with the issues

1177
00:55:15,940 --> 00:55:16,440
early on.

1178
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,170
But also, maybe we should have
just designed a simpler game

1179
00:55:19,170 --> 00:55:21,630
and not use this external code.

1180
00:55:21,630 --> 00:55:23,270
Another bad choice
we made was we

1181
00:55:23,270 --> 00:55:25,010
really did focus
on education, which

1182
00:55:25,010 --> 00:55:27,920
was good, because our
game does teach people.

1183
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:31,210
But it is an educational
game in the sense

1184
00:55:31,210 --> 00:55:34,120
that it's not the
most fun in the world.

1185
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,470
And if we were to
redo this, we probably

1186
00:55:37,470 --> 00:55:39,110
should have focused
on fun earlier.

1187
00:55:39,110 --> 00:55:41,410
We played with
having funny dialogue

1188
00:55:41,410 --> 00:55:44,284
and making more emotionally
resonating effects.

1189
00:55:44,284 --> 00:55:46,450
But at the end of the day,
it's an educational game.

1190
00:55:46,450 --> 00:55:50,560
And it's really not
that exciting to play.

1191
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:51,910
So that's something.

1192
00:55:51,910 --> 00:55:53,570
But in the process
of doing that,

1193
00:55:53,570 --> 00:55:55,370
we made some good choices too.

1194
00:55:55,370 --> 00:55:58,830
And one of those good choices
we made was group meetings.

1195
00:55:58,830 --> 00:56:01,440
You get so much done
when you sit down

1196
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,160
with like most of your
team for three hours

1197
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:05,790
and you just hammer through.

1198
00:56:05,790 --> 00:56:07,480
And we did that multiple times.

1199
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,840
And it really worked out for us.

1200
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,860
Something else we did
well was prioritize.

1201
00:56:12,860 --> 00:56:15,120
Because we had a
team of nine people,

1202
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,570
we really had-- availability
was kind of all over the place.

1203
00:56:18,570 --> 00:56:20,530
And even when we
had group meetings,

1204
00:56:20,530 --> 00:56:23,570
you could only really expect
like six people to show up.

1205
00:56:23,570 --> 00:56:25,820
You were guaranteed that at
least three people weren't

1206
00:56:25,820 --> 00:56:27,010
going to be there.

1207
00:56:27,010 --> 00:56:29,360
Even if you did a
doodle, which we did.

1208
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,660
So what we prioritized
was based on group--

1209
00:56:32,660 --> 00:56:35,020
we had groups of people with
different responsibilities.

1210
00:56:35,020 --> 00:56:39,026
But if there was a bug, we said,
OK, who is available right now?

1211
00:56:39,026 --> 00:56:40,150
What are you're working on?

1212
00:56:40,150 --> 00:56:41,380
Is this more of a priority?

1213
00:56:41,380 --> 00:56:42,770
Can you do this now?

1214
00:56:42,770 --> 00:56:44,920
And that process worked for us.

1215
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,340
We got bug after bug
fixed that way when

1216
00:56:47,340 --> 00:56:48,809
we weren't in a group meeting.

1217
00:56:48,809 --> 00:56:50,350
And when we got to
the group meeting,

1218
00:56:50,350 --> 00:56:52,910
people generally had a
sense of what was going on,

1219
00:56:52,910 --> 00:56:54,670
because we were doing
this process of they

1220
00:56:54,670 --> 00:56:57,080
kind of had maybe worked on
something for a little bit

1221
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,370
based on it being a priority.

1222
00:56:59,370 --> 00:57:01,730
So now, let's get
to the actual game.

1223
00:57:01,730 --> 00:57:06,905
So the game has a start screen
within an instruction screen,

1224
00:57:06,905 --> 00:57:08,790
which is kind of the sublayer.

1225
00:57:08,790 --> 00:57:11,610
The main game, which has
the day scene and then

1226
00:57:11,610 --> 00:57:14,260
a newspaper scene at the night,
and I'll show you all these.

1227
00:57:14,260 --> 00:57:16,110
And then the end screen.

1228
00:57:16,110 --> 00:57:18,800
So originally, this was what
our start screen looked at

1229
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,160
that we play tested.

1230
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,260
And it was beautiful,
as you can see up there.

1231
00:57:22,260 --> 00:57:24,350
No need for changes, right?

1232
00:57:24,350 --> 00:57:26,170
So we actually did change it.

1233
00:57:26,170 --> 00:57:28,460
And so now, it's
the same background

1234
00:57:28,460 --> 00:57:30,050
as a game for Cohesion.

1235
00:57:30,050 --> 00:57:31,550
You have your play,
but you can also

1236
00:57:31,550 --> 00:57:34,091
use the instructions, which are
pretty useful if you've never

1237
00:57:34,091 --> 00:57:36,020
played before.

1238
00:57:36,020 --> 00:57:38,590
And then that takes
you to our main game.

1239
00:57:38,590 --> 00:57:40,280
Our main game
originally, you saw that

1240
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:41,760
on the first focus test.

1241
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,820
I think this is pretty similar
to our second focus test.

1242
00:57:44,820 --> 00:57:48,720
You see we had a progression
with the main game.

1243
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:50,610
It took a lot of iteration.

1244
00:57:50,610 --> 00:57:52,600
And something originally
we didn't have,

1245
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,260
I said, was there
was no indication

1246
00:57:54,260 --> 00:57:57,690
of when somebody was getting
sick or their characteristics.

1247
00:57:57,690 --> 00:57:59,070
It was a lot of issues.

1248
00:57:59,070 --> 00:58:01,620
So we made some progress.

1249
00:58:01,620 --> 00:58:04,546
We added the indicator that
say, I'm about to faint.

1250
00:58:04,546 --> 00:58:06,170
You should probably
try to help me now,

1251
00:58:06,170 --> 00:58:09,160
which is that little explanation
part on part of their head.

1252
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:11,457
And then finally,
we redid pretty much

1253
00:58:11,457 --> 00:58:12,290
all of the graphics.

1254
00:58:12,290 --> 00:58:13,206
And that took a while.

1255
00:58:13,206 --> 00:58:16,000
So we were in the process of
redoing them at this point.

1256
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,240
And now, the game
looks like this.

1257
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:19,920
So it's much more cohesive.

1258
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,230
All the art fits together.

1259
00:58:21,230 --> 00:58:23,355
The people are really
visually caricatures

1260
00:58:23,355 --> 00:58:26,140
of the different types of
people you need to help.

1261
00:58:26,140 --> 00:58:28,600
Elderly people, homeless
people, drunk people

1262
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,422
are all really
vulnerable to heat waves.

1263
00:58:30,422 --> 00:58:32,630
And then there's some
characters that actually aren't

1264
00:58:32,630 --> 00:58:34,190
on this screen
right here but that

1265
00:58:34,190 --> 00:58:37,420
aren't as vulnerable, like
normal, like adults aren't

1266
00:58:37,420 --> 00:58:38,320
as vulnerable.

1267
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:41,761
And athletes aren't
as vulnerable.

1268
00:58:41,761 --> 00:58:44,010
So at the end of each day,
when you play this through,

1269
00:58:44,010 --> 00:58:45,780
and you've helped your
people, and you've given them

1270
00:58:45,780 --> 00:58:47,270
water or set up
coolers or whatever

1271
00:58:47,270 --> 00:58:50,466
you wanted to do for the day,
you get to a newspaper scene.

1272
00:58:50,466 --> 00:58:52,090
And the original
newspaper scene looked

1273
00:58:52,090 --> 00:58:53,930
like this, a lot of text.

1274
00:58:53,930 --> 00:58:56,450
It doesn't really
help you with much.

1275
00:58:56,450 --> 00:58:57,920
No one really
cared much about it

1276
00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:59,770
in the first
iterations of the game,

1277
00:58:59,770 --> 00:59:02,210
because the long-term objects
hadn't been adding yet.

1278
00:59:02,210 --> 00:59:04,470
So it's just the umbrellas
and the water coolers.

1279
00:59:04,470 --> 00:59:06,890
And so we changed it
to look like this.

1280
00:59:06,890 --> 00:59:10,710
It's the same information,
just a little better organized.

1281
00:59:10,710 --> 00:59:12,950
And the other thing that
we added in the main game,

1282
00:59:12,950 --> 00:59:14,490
we added those
buttons that says,

1283
00:59:14,490 --> 00:59:16,574
you can set up a water
cooler or an umbrella.

1284
00:59:16,574 --> 00:59:17,740
And that takes your time up.

1285
00:59:17,740 --> 00:59:20,100
So if it's cool outside,
maybe you do that.

1286
00:59:20,100 --> 00:59:23,500
But if it's like 110
degrees in Fahrenheit, then

1287
00:59:23,500 --> 00:59:26,140
maybe you should focus on
helping people not faint.

1288
00:59:26,140 --> 00:59:28,280
So we had that.

1289
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,785
And then say you
finish, 20 people faint

1290
00:59:30,785 --> 00:59:33,700
or whatever-- I think
it's 20 people faint--

1291
00:59:33,700 --> 00:59:35,100
and you get to the end screen.

1292
00:59:35,100 --> 00:59:39,200
And our original game,
we had no end screen.

1293
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:41,720
And the reason for that
was, I told you we really

1294
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,410
focused on education not fun.

1295
00:59:43,410 --> 00:59:46,180
And we just didn't think,
part of the fun of a game

1296
00:59:46,180 --> 00:59:48,640
is seeing how long you survive.

1297
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:50,500
But we just weren't
thinking about that.

1298
00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:52,630
So we really reevaluated that.

1299
00:59:52,630 --> 00:59:55,250
And we said, OK, we
definitely need an end screen.

1300
00:59:55,250 --> 00:59:57,520
And we have it
looking like this.

1301
00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:59,660
So it tells you how
long you lasted.

1302
00:59:59,660 --> 01:00:01,860
And then you can see
the credits for what

1303
01:00:01,860 --> 01:00:03,040
was involved in the game.

1304
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:04,360
And you can play it again.

1305
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:08,152
So there's more feedback for
the user of how they did.

1306
01:00:08,152 --> 01:00:10,560
And if we were going to
do this project again,

1307
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:14,280
there's two things I think
we'd do majorly differently.

1308
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,250
And the first is talking
about heat waves.

1309
01:00:17,250 --> 01:00:20,540
Our group thought heat waves
were going to be really cool.

1310
01:00:20,540 --> 01:00:23,100
We were like, oh, people
are fainting everywhere,

1311
01:00:23,100 --> 01:00:26,497
and it's getting hot, and
we have to do something.

1312
01:00:26,497 --> 01:00:28,330
And then you start
reading about heat waves.

1313
01:00:28,330 --> 01:00:30,550
And basically, it gets hot.

1314
01:00:30,550 --> 01:00:33,140
You tell people to go
inside or drink water.

1315
01:00:33,140 --> 01:00:34,800
And that's about it.

1316
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:36,970
That's all a heat wave is.

1317
01:00:36,970 --> 01:00:40,650
And so what we'd do differently
is really the passion aspect.

1318
01:00:40,650 --> 01:00:42,790
If we're going to do a
game about heat waves,

1319
01:00:42,790 --> 01:00:45,570
we depended kind of
on our passion coming

1320
01:00:45,570 --> 01:00:47,702
from the thinking
heat waves were cool.

1321
01:00:47,702 --> 01:00:49,160
I think we should
have focused more

1322
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:52,957
on having passion for the
game and then incorporating

1323
01:00:52,957 --> 01:00:55,290
the-- well, also having the
game build around heat waves

1324
01:00:55,290 --> 01:00:58,220
but really having a more
exciting game that we

1325
01:00:58,220 --> 01:01:01,440
could somehow also get
that educational aspect in.

1326
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,000
What wed also do differently
is accountability.

1327
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:05,560
I said we had nine people.

1328
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:08,590
Sometimes, people disappear
when you have that many people.

1329
01:01:08,590 --> 01:01:10,930
And keeping dibs on
everything, especially when you

1330
01:01:10,930 --> 01:01:13,960
have separate email threads,
can be a little confusing.

1331
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,269
So maybe look into
some of the tools

1332
01:01:16,269 --> 01:01:18,810
that the other teams mentioned,
where you have multiple group

1333
01:01:18,810 --> 01:01:20,130
chats and you can see them all.

1334
01:01:20,130 --> 01:01:23,050
That looks really interesting.

1335
01:01:23,050 --> 01:01:25,880
Future features, more
long-term options.

1336
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,520
I think that's one of
the things in our game

1337
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:31,760
that really helps with
the planning aspect is OK,

1338
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,220
do I want to be doing this,
like helping somebody now?

1339
01:01:34,220 --> 01:01:36,730
Or do I wanting to be
installing an object now?

1340
01:01:36,730 --> 01:01:39,570
And really, our
game kind of depends

1341
01:01:39,570 --> 01:01:42,430
on that balance of choosing
who to help and then

1342
01:01:42,430 --> 01:01:43,580
also what to do.

1343
01:01:43,580 --> 01:01:45,010
Am I helping or not?

1344
01:01:45,010 --> 01:01:46,440
So more long term options.

1345
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:48,694
And then something we
originally conceived

1346
01:01:48,694 --> 01:01:50,110
was to have multiple
environments.

1347
01:01:50,110 --> 01:01:51,910
And we didn't have
time to implement this.

1348
01:01:51,910 --> 01:01:53,100
But in different
environments, you

1349
01:01:53,100 --> 01:01:54,290
do slightly different things.

1350
01:01:54,290 --> 01:01:55,660
Like if you're in
an office, you might

1351
01:01:55,660 --> 01:01:57,993
want to install an AC unit,
which is different than what

1352
01:01:57,993 --> 01:02:00,220
you'd do outside.

1353
01:02:00,220 --> 01:02:02,340
So really look into
multiple environments.

1354
01:02:02,340 --> 01:02:04,570
Different countries have
different environments,

1355
01:02:04,570 --> 01:02:07,179
might have slightly different
strategies for what to do.

1356
01:02:07,179 --> 01:02:08,970
And we really would
like to look into that.

1357
01:02:08,970 --> 01:02:13,217
So before we play the game, do
you guys have any questions?

1358
01:02:16,140 --> 01:02:20,665
In that case, I'd
like a user tester.

1359
01:02:20,665 --> 01:02:24,018
AUDIENCE: So someone who
hasn't played the game before,

1360
01:02:24,018 --> 01:02:26,392
again one of our guests.

1361
01:02:26,392 --> 01:02:26,892
Alex?

1362
01:02:26,892 --> 01:02:27,850
AUDIENCE: Sure.

1363
01:02:27,850 --> 01:02:30,880
AUDIENCE: Thank you.

1364
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,120
MIRIAM: It's not
showing up there.

1365
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:36,240
Give me a second.

1366
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,047
Display.

1367
01:02:39,047 --> 01:02:40,755
You're going to have
to give me a minute.

1368
01:02:40,755 --> 01:02:41,770
I didn't realize it
wouldn't show up.

1369
01:02:41,770 --> 01:02:43,520
AUDIENCE: Make sure
that's not plugged in.

1370
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:44,320
MIRIAM: Yes.

1371
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:45,695
I [INAUDIBLE] have
it plugged in.

1372
01:02:48,750 --> 01:02:51,770
How do I mirror the screens?

1373
01:02:51,770 --> 01:02:54,577
Sorry, it just--
otherwise, he's going

1374
01:02:54,577 --> 01:02:55,660
to have to stare up there.

1375
01:02:59,500 --> 01:03:01,900
Oh, thank you.

1376
01:03:01,900 --> 01:03:03,340
Don't look at my emails.

1377
01:03:03,340 --> 01:03:04,760
There's so many of them.

1378
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:05,260
OK, yeah.

1379
01:03:05,260 --> 01:03:06,194
AUDIENCE: Are we good?

1380
01:03:06,194 --> 01:03:07,194
MIRIAM: Yeah, go for it.

1381
01:03:07,194 --> 01:03:08,142
My sound is on silent.

1382
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:11,460
There.

1383
01:03:11,460 --> 01:03:14,310
AUDIENCE: All right?

1384
01:03:14,310 --> 01:03:16,698
Let's see, solo, go
[? to tech ?] the instructions

1385
01:03:16,698 --> 01:03:18,135
so thanks for [INAUDIBLE].

1386
01:03:23,404 --> 01:03:25,425
All right.

1387
01:03:25,425 --> 01:03:26,966
Let me read through
the instructions.

1388
01:03:26,966 --> 01:03:29,382
It's going to offer homeless
people water, tell old people

1389
01:03:29,382 --> 01:03:33,140
to go inside, install umbrellas,
or many other options.

1390
01:03:33,140 --> 01:03:36,870
OK, so pause, click
on Pause button.

1391
01:03:36,870 --> 01:03:38,630
OK.

1392
01:03:38,630 --> 01:03:41,945
[INAUDIBLE] whoop.

1393
01:03:41,945 --> 01:03:43,384
MIRIAM: Sorry,
what just happened?

1394
01:03:43,384 --> 01:03:45,175
AUDIENCE: I may have
clicked that actually.

1395
01:03:45,175 --> 01:03:46,970
MIRIAM: Oh, did
you start the game?

1396
01:03:46,970 --> 01:03:48,220
Here, we'll just quit.

1397
01:03:48,220 --> 01:03:50,910
No worries.

1398
01:03:50,910 --> 01:03:51,410
Great.

1399
01:03:51,410 --> 01:03:52,790
AUDIENCE: OK, thanks.

1400
01:03:55,580 --> 01:03:58,626
OK, I think we're ready now.

1401
01:03:58,626 --> 01:03:59,126
Let's play.

1402
01:04:02,479 --> 01:04:03,916
I'm going for the umbrellas.

1403
01:04:07,270 --> 01:04:08,648
OK.

1404
01:04:08,648 --> 01:04:09,148
Yeah.

1405
01:04:18,340 --> 01:04:18,840
All right.

1406
01:04:42,224 --> 01:04:43,240
Wow, that's nice.

1407
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:45,650
Does it get darker
as it goes through?

1408
01:04:45,650 --> 01:04:46,150
Cool.

1409
01:04:55,970 --> 01:04:56,823
Whoop, uh-oh.

1410
01:04:59,475 --> 01:04:59,975
Wake up.

1411
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:07,880
Hey, OK.

1412
01:05:10,590 --> 01:05:11,800
Should I do it around here?

1413
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:12,790
MIRIAM: Yeah, sorry.

1414
01:05:12,790 --> 01:05:13,780
Go through again.

1415
01:05:13,780 --> 01:05:14,770
Try talking to someone.

1416
01:05:14,770 --> 01:05:15,760
AUDIENCE: All right.

1417
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:20,390
Is it--

1418
01:05:20,390 --> 01:05:22,482
MIRIAM: No, it's something long.

1419
01:05:22,482 --> 01:05:23,670
AUDIENCE: Oh, OK.

1420
01:05:23,670 --> 01:05:24,668
No worries.

1421
01:05:36,644 --> 01:05:38,141
MIRIAM: All right, that's good.

1422
01:05:38,141 --> 01:05:40,883
Thank you.

1423
01:05:40,883 --> 01:05:42,632
AUDIENCE: Maybe, just
start the game over.

1424
01:05:42,632 --> 01:05:44,935
MIRIAM: Yeah, should
I just-- yeah.

1425
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:51,391
It was working.

1426
01:05:51,391 --> 01:05:53,044
OK, let me refresh the page.

1427
01:06:01,740 --> 01:06:02,240
There.

1428
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:03,365
AUDIENCE: Oh, there you go.

1429
01:06:03,365 --> 01:06:05,530
MIRIAM: I don't
know what happened.

1430
01:06:05,530 --> 01:06:06,970
Sorry about that.

1431
01:06:06,970 --> 01:06:07,930
AUDIENCE: No worries.

1432
01:06:13,210 --> 01:06:15,290
Oh, I see, you can give
them options to do.

1433
01:06:15,290 --> 01:06:17,680
Oh, OK, that changes
it just a little, yeah.

1434
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:20,155
MIRIAM: Kind of
important, just a little.

1435
01:06:20,155 --> 01:06:21,145
AUDIENCE: All right.

1436
01:06:47,380 --> 01:06:48,375
Oh, OK.

1437
01:06:55,100 --> 01:06:58,085
Let's see, I'll talk to her.

1438
01:06:58,085 --> 01:06:58,585
Uh-oh.

1439
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:05,020
Oh no.

1440
01:07:12,408 --> 01:07:14,449
AUDIENCE: I actually caught
the rest of the game.

1441
01:07:18,393 --> 01:07:19,379
AUDIENCE: Thank you.

1442
01:07:23,330 --> 01:07:25,113
Any last questions
for the group?

1443
01:07:30,885 --> 01:07:34,252
AUDIENCE: I liked
the bird sounds

1444
01:07:34,252 --> 01:07:36,492
and also the fire sounds.

1445
01:07:36,492 --> 01:07:39,510
Are there other sound effects?

1446
01:07:39,510 --> 01:07:41,370
MIRIAM: So we had music.

1447
01:07:41,370 --> 01:07:44,660
But it was really hard to find
good music for a heat wave,

1448
01:07:44,660 --> 01:07:47,610
because you think it sounds
hot and you don't really

1449
01:07:47,610 --> 01:07:48,700
think of anything.

1450
01:07:48,700 --> 01:07:53,690
So we had this very eerie music,
which didn't really fit either.

1451
01:07:53,690 --> 01:07:55,190
So we went for the
minimalistic bird

1452
01:07:55,190 --> 01:07:57,190
sounds, because we thought
it was the only thing

1453
01:07:57,190 --> 01:07:58,331
that kind of fit.

1454
01:08:01,490 --> 01:08:03,050
Is there any other sounds?

1455
01:08:03,050 --> 01:08:03,667
No.

1456
01:08:03,667 --> 01:08:04,750
Yeah, we had other sounds.

1457
01:08:04,750 --> 01:08:06,255
Just they sounded wrong.

1458
01:08:06,255 --> 01:08:08,380
We had fire sounds, like
in the background and that

1459
01:08:08,380 --> 01:08:09,860
made the whole
thing sound really

1460
01:08:09,860 --> 01:08:14,316
dangerous and terrifying, which
is not what we want to portray.

1461
01:08:14,316 --> 01:08:16,649
We want to portray that you
can do something and prevent

1462
01:08:16,649 --> 01:08:19,000
anything bad from happening.

1463
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:20,273
And any other questions?

1464
01:08:20,273 --> 01:08:20,773
Yes.

1465
01:08:20,773 --> 01:08:23,149
AUDIENCE: So a lot of things
have changed in your game

1466
01:08:23,149 --> 01:08:25,402
since Monday.

1467
01:08:25,402 --> 01:08:28,720
A lot has changed since Monday.

1468
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:30,325
How did you manage the process?

1469
01:08:30,325 --> 01:08:32,370
MIRIAM: So we
actually, we were going

1470
01:08:32,370 --> 01:08:33,729
to have a meeting before Monday.

1471
01:08:33,729 --> 01:08:35,770
But really, our schedules
didn't work out.

1472
01:08:35,770 --> 01:08:38,100
So we actually had, I
told you, group meetings.

1473
01:08:38,100 --> 01:08:39,680
That's where we got
everything done.

1474
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:43,189
We had like a three, four-hour
group meeting on Monday night,

1475
01:08:43,189 --> 01:08:44,859
which we were planning to have.

1476
01:08:44,859 --> 01:08:48,450
And while there was like
a couple core things

1477
01:08:48,450 --> 01:08:52,180
that we wanted to fix,
just like small like bugs

1478
01:08:52,180 --> 01:08:53,810
that we were
working on, and also

1479
01:08:53,810 --> 01:08:56,410
while some people were
doing that, we're just like,

1480
01:08:56,410 --> 01:08:59,410
well, we have other people
who aren't doing anything

1481
01:08:59,410 --> 01:09:01,700
and can't really help with
what's the major thing,

1482
01:09:01,700 --> 01:09:03,850
so why don't we just
like add other features,

1483
01:09:03,850 --> 01:09:05,390
like it getting light and dark.

1484
01:09:05,390 --> 01:09:07,490
Because that's something
we really had considered

1485
01:09:07,490 --> 01:09:08,890
and we hadn't had time for.

1486
01:09:08,890 --> 01:09:12,359
But in that group meeting,
where somebody had time,

1487
01:09:12,359 --> 01:09:14,580
we were able to add that.

1488
01:09:14,580 --> 01:09:17,899
And it looks good.

1489
01:09:17,899 --> 01:09:19,229
AUDIENCE: How did you test it?

1490
01:09:19,229 --> 01:09:20,541
Like, did you--

1491
01:09:20,541 --> 01:09:22,040
MIRIAM: Oh, so we've
been running it

1492
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:25,700
like nonstop all of
yesterday and today.

1493
01:09:25,700 --> 01:09:27,130
But then it broke.

1494
01:09:27,130 --> 01:09:29,540
AUDIENCE: Yep,
definitely, it happens.

1495
01:09:29,540 --> 01:09:31,265
MIRIAM: Yeah.

1496
01:09:31,265 --> 01:09:33,740
AUDIENCE: You also
went from a screen that

1497
01:09:33,740 --> 01:09:35,729
had pretty small
characters on it

1498
01:09:35,729 --> 01:09:38,359
to a screen where the
characters were about

1499
01:09:38,359 --> 01:09:39,770
3/4 the size of the screen.

1500
01:09:39,770 --> 01:09:41,330
How did that
decision come about?

1501
01:09:41,330 --> 01:09:42,939
MIRIAM: So we had our drawings.

1502
01:09:42,939 --> 01:09:45,212
And when I told you
we focused tested,

1503
01:09:45,212 --> 01:09:47,420
then we had like a big
picture of them on the screen.

1504
01:09:47,420 --> 01:09:48,319
People loved it.

1505
01:09:48,319 --> 01:09:50,654
But when we actually put
them onto the old screen,

1506
01:09:50,654 --> 01:09:52,279
they were really
small and you couldn't

1507
01:09:52,279 --> 01:09:53,880
see their characteristics.

1508
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:56,820
And we said it's better to have
people overlapping more often

1509
01:09:56,820 --> 01:09:59,120
but actually being able to
see their characteristics.

1510
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:00,536
Because the
caricatures are really

1511
01:10:00,536 --> 01:10:01,910
where the learning comes in.

1512
01:10:01,910 --> 01:10:04,970
Like, if you didn't notice,
the people who fainted

1513
01:10:04,970 --> 01:10:10,030
were, I think, the drunk
people and an old person.

1514
01:10:10,030 --> 01:10:11,520
So you start to
notice as you play

1515
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:13,600
the game, OK,
homeless people faint

1516
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:16,080
really fast if you
don't give them water.

1517
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:17,600
And that's just like a fact.

1518
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:19,090
People who are
homeless typically

1519
01:10:19,090 --> 01:10:20,330
don't have enough
fluids in them.

1520
01:10:20,330 --> 01:10:21,621
And they're also outside a lot.

1521
01:10:21,621 --> 01:10:23,280
So it's really hot.

1522
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:24,564
So that's relearning comes in.

1523
01:10:24,564 --> 01:10:25,980
So we wanted to
make those bigger.

1524
01:10:25,980 --> 01:10:27,950
And to make them bigger,
we thought, OK, we'll

1525
01:10:27,950 --> 01:10:32,210
just put in like a simpler
one-lane background.

1526
01:10:32,210 --> 01:10:33,660
So that's where that came from.

1527
01:10:33,660 --> 01:10:36,190
We were planning on doing
that before yesterday, I

1528
01:10:36,190 --> 01:10:38,580
mean before Monday.

1529
01:10:38,580 --> 01:10:40,977
But we just didn't
have the assets in yet.

1530
01:10:40,977 --> 01:10:43,560
So like a lot of things changed
that were already in the works

1531
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:46,530
since you last saw it.

1532
01:10:46,530 --> 01:10:47,440
Cool.

1533
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:48,616
Any other questions?

1534
01:10:51,109 --> 01:10:52,108
Well, thank you so much.

1535
01:10:54,976 --> 01:10:58,190
LAUREN: All right, so
we're Cholera Control.

1536
01:10:58,190 --> 01:11:00,560
And we're going to talk a
little bit about our game

1537
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,050
and the making of it.

1538
01:11:02,050 --> 01:11:06,320
So firstly, Cholera Control is a
game we made for the Red Cross.

1539
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:10,402
Our client was Pablo Sanchez,
as a few others have mentioned.

1540
01:11:10,402 --> 01:11:12,860
And the point that we wanted
to get across with our cholera

1541
01:11:12,860 --> 01:11:16,830
game is that it is an easily
preventable disease, if you

1542
01:11:16,830 --> 01:11:18,270
just like wash your hands.

1543
01:11:18,270 --> 01:11:20,090
It's really not that hard.

1544
01:11:20,090 --> 01:11:21,690
But people just
don't seem to do it,

1545
01:11:21,690 --> 01:11:24,480
because there's a lot of
factors going on in their life

1546
01:11:24,480 --> 01:11:25,760
and they sort of just forget.

1547
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,720
But it's really easy to do,
if you just wash your hands.

1548
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:33,042
So we want to just do a
quick demo of the game.

1549
01:11:33,042 --> 01:11:35,670
Where is-- OK.

1550
01:11:35,670 --> 01:11:39,367
So if someone would like to
come down and play our game.

1551
01:11:39,367 --> 01:11:40,321
AUDIENCE: OK.

1552
01:11:40,321 --> 01:11:41,280
LAUREN: Cool.

1553
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:44,388
AUDIENCE: Cholera is fun.

1554
01:11:44,388 --> 01:11:46,554
AUDIENCE: Not supposed to
show up on our home video,

1555
01:11:46,554 --> 01:11:47,216
so that's OK.

1556
01:11:47,216 --> 01:11:48,208
AUDIENCE: Are you hot?

1557
01:11:48,208 --> 01:11:49,499
AUDIENCE: No, I'm just kidding.

1558
01:11:49,499 --> 01:11:51,184
I don't know.

1559
01:11:51,184 --> 01:11:52,672
AUDIENCE: We'll find out.

1560
01:11:52,672 --> 01:11:54,656
Don't have any policy for that.

1561
01:11:54,656 --> 01:11:56,640
AUDIENCE: OK.

1562
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:57,632
Play a game.

1563
01:12:08,048 --> 01:12:09,536
LAUREN: Can you guys read that?

1564
01:12:09,536 --> 01:12:10,528
AUDIENCE: Yep.

1565
01:12:10,528 --> 01:12:12,512
LAUREN: Can anyone in
the back not read it?

1566
01:12:12,512 --> 01:12:13,054
Because, it--

1567
01:12:13,054 --> 01:12:14,636
STUDENT: It says
cholera is spreading.

1568
01:12:14,636 --> 01:12:16,976
You got to control it and
watch out for outbreaks.

1569
01:12:16,976 --> 01:12:31,620
AUDIENCE: OK, I'll
just-- Oh, OK.

1570
01:12:31,620 --> 01:12:33,090
I have $1,400?

1571
01:12:33,090 --> 01:12:34,866
LAUREN: So as you
can see, the game

1572
01:12:34,866 --> 01:12:36,560
is kind of a strategy game.

1573
01:12:36,560 --> 01:12:40,020
Right now, there's only
one locality to deal with.

1574
01:12:40,020 --> 01:12:42,729
We sort of didn't want to
throw too much at the player

1575
01:12:42,729 --> 01:12:43,645
at the very beginning.

1576
01:12:43,645 --> 01:12:46,795
So you can kind of--
also, the game is paused,

1577
01:12:46,795 --> 01:12:48,780
so it's going to open
in that corner there.

1578
01:12:48,780 --> 01:12:51,355
And so you can have time
to sort of just read,

1579
01:12:51,355 --> 01:12:53,000
make sure you know
what's going on,

1580
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,824
what all those
different things do.

1581
01:12:55,824 --> 01:12:56,990
Then you go back to the map.

1582
01:12:56,990 --> 01:12:58,376
And time keeps elapsing.

1583
01:13:01,610 --> 01:13:06,850
And so over time, more
localities appear, up to four.

1584
01:13:06,850 --> 01:13:08,997
So right now, you just
get the second one.

1585
01:13:08,997 --> 01:13:10,830
They are on different
branches of the river.

1586
01:13:10,830 --> 01:13:13,204
So they're not going to really
hurt each other right now,

1587
01:13:13,204 --> 01:13:16,286
still relatively easy.

1588
01:13:16,286 --> 01:13:18,094
STUDENT: We go cheap.

1589
01:13:18,094 --> 01:13:19,012
LAUREN: Hopefully.

1590
01:13:19,012 --> 01:13:20,970
I don't want to offend
anyone, if they're like,

1591
01:13:20,970 --> 01:13:24,302
this is really hard.

1592
01:13:24,302 --> 01:13:25,802
AUDIENCE: So the
average [INAUDIBLE]

1593
01:13:25,802 --> 01:13:33,212
that the infection is
still growing, more so.

1594
01:13:35,989 --> 01:13:37,780
LAUREN: So one of the
things you could see,

1595
01:13:37,780 --> 01:13:40,190
if he goes back to the
map, is all the bars

1596
01:13:40,190 --> 01:13:43,972
above the villages, green is
the healthy and red is infected.

1597
01:13:43,972 --> 01:13:45,430
And there's an
arrow, which I think

1598
01:13:45,430 --> 01:13:50,890
is a-- you can see it pretty
well on there-- the arrow,

1599
01:13:50,890 --> 01:13:53,820
if it's pointing that way, that
means that the amount of green

1600
01:13:53,820 --> 01:13:54,390
is growing.

1601
01:13:54,390 --> 01:13:55,740
So there's more
people getting healed.

1602
01:13:55,740 --> 01:13:57,739
If it's pointing the other
way, then more people

1603
01:13:57,739 --> 01:13:59,440
are getting infected,
which is bad.

1604
01:13:59,440 --> 01:14:02,160
So if you see your
arrow switch directions,

1605
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,000
you usually want to
get on that really

1606
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:08,500
quickly and make sure that
nobody dies-- well, no, nobody

1607
01:14:08,500 --> 01:14:09,100
gets infected.

1608
01:14:09,100 --> 01:14:12,099
Nobody dies in this game.

1609
01:14:12,099 --> 01:14:13,390
We didn't want to be too harsh.

1610
01:14:13,390 --> 01:14:15,362
AUDIENCE: Are the
products accumulated?

1611
01:14:15,362 --> 01:14:16,201
So my like--

1612
01:14:16,201 --> 01:14:18,200
STUDENT: Yes, yeah, so
if you buy more than one,

1613
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:18,991
they work together.

1614
01:14:18,991 --> 01:14:19,910
AUDIENCE: OK.

1615
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:31,834
Ew, boiling water.

1616
01:14:31,834 --> 01:14:34,140
STUDENT: So boiling
water is special,

1617
01:14:34,140 --> 01:14:36,590
because it helps
downstream villages.

1618
01:14:36,590 --> 01:14:39,120
AUDIENCE: I clicked that.

1619
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:40,440
STUDENT: That doesn't help.

1620
01:14:40,440 --> 01:14:41,432
AUDIENCE: I know.

1621
01:14:44,910 --> 01:14:45,920
Is my budget growing?

1622
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:46,520
STUDENT: Yes.

1623
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:48,792
AUDIENCE: OK, oh great.

1624
01:14:48,792 --> 01:14:50,250
Oh, crap, I didn't
mean to do that.

1625
01:14:50,250 --> 01:14:51,520
STUDENT: You can undo.

1626
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:52,362
AUDIENCE: Oh, I can?

1627
01:14:52,362 --> 01:14:53,820
STUDENT: Yeah,
well, now you can't.

1628
01:14:53,820 --> 01:14:54,827
AUDIENCE: Now, I can't.

1629
01:14:54,827 --> 01:14:56,910
STUDENT: That one's going
to-- you're [INAUDIBLE].

1630
01:14:56,910 --> 01:14:59,670
AUDIENCE: OK, I need to buy them
boiling water, and that's it.

1631
01:14:59,670 --> 01:15:00,544
STUDENT: You're done.

1632
01:15:02,862 --> 01:15:03,816
AUDIENCE: OK.

1633
01:15:03,816 --> 01:15:04,816
LAUREN: Well, thank you.

1634
01:15:04,816 --> 01:15:05,724
STUDENT: Yep, thanks.

1635
01:15:10,020 --> 01:15:13,920
Yeah, so if you manage to
survive longer-- no offense--

1636
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:16,470
you get to-- up to
four villages pop up,

1637
01:15:16,470 --> 01:15:17,920
or four localities pops up.

1638
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:20,090
And then it gets really hard.

1639
01:15:20,090 --> 01:15:20,590
Cool.

1640
01:15:25,730 --> 01:15:28,730
Cool, so first, we're going
to talk about what went right,

1641
01:15:28,730 --> 01:15:31,160
both from the
creation of the game

1642
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,982
and working as a team
sort of perspective.

1643
01:15:33,982 --> 01:15:37,030
LAUREN: So firstly, I'll
go over the iteration

1644
01:15:37,030 --> 01:15:38,530
was a lot better
on this project.

1645
01:15:38,530 --> 01:15:41,320
In this class, we had a
total of four projects.

1646
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:44,304
The first three were
each over-- like,

1647
01:15:44,304 --> 01:15:45,470
the first one was two weeks.

1648
01:15:45,470 --> 01:15:46,460
Second one was two weeks.

1649
01:15:46,460 --> 01:15:46,860
Third one was two weeks.

1650
01:15:46,860 --> 01:15:48,427
And then this one
was eight weeks.

1651
01:15:48,427 --> 01:15:50,260
So this time, we had a
lot more time to sort

1652
01:15:50,260 --> 01:15:54,460
of decide what we wanted to
do, what we should try out,

1653
01:15:54,460 --> 01:15:57,740
and get to sort of test each and
every single one of the ideas

1654
01:15:57,740 --> 01:16:00,740
that we had, rather
than just focusing

1655
01:16:00,740 --> 01:16:03,890
on one idea of having to do it,
because you only had two weeks.

1656
01:16:03,890 --> 01:16:06,799
The other thing is that
after three projects,

1657
01:16:06,799 --> 01:16:09,340
we finally figured out how to
do design meetings really well.

1658
01:16:09,340 --> 01:16:11,821
We got them down to that they
were only like a half hour

1659
01:16:11,821 --> 01:16:12,320
each.

1660
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:15,230
And when people showed up,
they were really productive.

1661
01:16:15,230 --> 01:16:18,520
And so everyone figured
out what they wanted to do.

1662
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:19,970
They talked about the game.

1663
01:16:19,970 --> 01:16:21,680
It got done, and people
got out of there.

1664
01:16:21,680 --> 01:16:24,380
It was very nice.

1665
01:16:24,380 --> 01:16:27,160
Another thing we did
right was simplifying.

1666
01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:29,540
It was really hard
to adjust scope.

1667
01:16:29,540 --> 01:16:31,067
It was easier in
the other games,

1668
01:16:31,067 --> 01:16:32,900
because you realize you
only have two weeks.

1669
01:16:32,900 --> 01:16:35,149
When you have eight weeks,
you think you can do a lot,

1670
01:16:35,149 --> 01:16:36,336
and you really can't.

1671
01:16:36,336 --> 01:16:37,710
You think you have
a lot of time,

1672
01:16:37,710 --> 01:16:41,320
but classes and
applying to jobs,

1673
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:43,490
and everything takes
all of your time.

1674
01:16:43,490 --> 01:16:45,450
And so you have to
really learn to,

1675
01:16:45,450 --> 01:16:47,580
OK, like, I only have so
much time for this class.

1676
01:16:47,580 --> 01:16:49,580
I can only do so
much on this game,

1677
01:16:49,580 --> 01:16:51,340
so I'm going to
adjust the scope.

1678
01:16:51,340 --> 01:16:55,100
And it was really hard even when
the client, when Pablo told us,

1679
01:16:55,100 --> 01:16:57,710
you should change what you're
doing, we didn't want to.

1680
01:16:57,710 --> 01:16:59,436
We thought, no, this
is a great idea.

1681
01:16:59,436 --> 01:17:00,560
This is how it should work.

1682
01:17:00,560 --> 01:17:02,490
But then when the
client tells you do it

1683
01:17:02,490 --> 01:17:05,080
and all your play testers
say your idea is bad,

1684
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:08,720
you need to just
give in and change.

1685
01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:10,820
And we ended up having
really great results.

1686
01:17:10,820 --> 01:17:13,340
With the simpler gameplay,
it's a lot more fun.

1687
01:17:13,340 --> 01:17:15,880
And the options, there
are less options,

1688
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:17,780
but they're much
more meaningful.

1689
01:17:17,780 --> 01:17:19,350
As you could see,
the player was sort

1690
01:17:19,350 --> 01:17:21,260
of reading through
each and every option.

1691
01:17:21,260 --> 01:17:23,940
And it's because they each
do something different.

1692
01:17:23,940 --> 01:17:25,900
Before, we had a
lot more options.

1693
01:17:25,900 --> 01:17:27,980
But they were all
sort of the same.

1694
01:17:27,980 --> 01:17:31,090
You just kind of click
them, and they do something.

1695
01:17:31,090 --> 01:17:32,990
But they're all just
about the same effect.

1696
01:17:32,990 --> 01:17:35,110
With this, they all
have different effects.

1697
01:17:35,110 --> 01:17:36,800
So you sort of
have to strategize.

1698
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:39,100
Do I want to spend more
money for this effect?

1699
01:17:39,100 --> 01:17:42,070
Or can I just use this cheaper
effect over and over again

1700
01:17:42,070 --> 01:17:43,020
for the same result?

1701
01:17:45,710 --> 01:17:48,290
STUDENT: So I'm going to
talk a little bit about what

1702
01:17:48,290 --> 01:17:50,583
changed from beginning to end.

1703
01:17:50,583 --> 01:17:54,920
So the UI in the beginning
looks much uglier.

1704
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,010
I mean, that just came
with sort of refining that.

1705
01:17:57,010 --> 01:17:59,470
I want to talk a lot about
sort of the design changes

1706
01:17:59,470 --> 01:18:00,490
that really changed.

1707
01:18:00,490 --> 01:18:04,300
So in our first
prototype of the game,

1708
01:18:04,300 --> 01:18:07,570
you sort of click these
buttons here on the right.

1709
01:18:07,570 --> 01:18:10,390
And that would give
you the actions.

1710
01:18:10,390 --> 01:18:12,140
Whereas, in the final
version of the game,

1711
01:18:12,140 --> 01:18:14,740
you click on the villages, and
that gives you the actions.

1712
01:18:14,740 --> 01:18:16,730
And this came from
something that Pablo

1713
01:18:16,730 --> 01:18:19,140
told us early on and really
made a big difference, which

1714
01:18:19,140 --> 01:18:21,970
is like people that are used
to playing video games get

1715
01:18:21,970 --> 01:18:25,400
this concept of click
action, apply to object.

1716
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:28,530
But we realized, both through
play testing and again

1717
01:18:28,530 --> 01:18:30,340
Pablo telling us,
that when you don't

1718
01:18:30,340 --> 01:18:32,840
have that sort of experience,
working in a lot of videogames

1719
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,269
and just having that
context in your head,

1720
01:18:35,269 --> 01:18:36,560
that doesn't really make sense.

1721
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:38,560
It makes much more
sense to the people

1722
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:42,030
that we're aiming this game
for to click on the object

1723
01:18:42,030 --> 01:18:43,900
and then choose an action.

1724
01:18:43,900 --> 01:18:47,090
So like that inverting
of the order of things

1725
01:18:47,090 --> 01:18:49,600
actually makes a big
difference in helping

1726
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:51,510
to understand the
game and just making

1727
01:18:51,510 --> 01:18:53,980
the whole thing smoother.

1728
01:18:53,980 --> 01:18:57,190
On top of that, we
sort of like really

1729
01:18:57,190 --> 01:18:59,639
refined the information
that we're showing

1730
01:18:59,639 --> 01:19:00,680
when you look at the map.

1731
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:02,471
So right now, like in
the original version,

1732
01:19:02,471 --> 01:19:04,025
you look at the
map and you sort of

1733
01:19:04,025 --> 01:19:06,150
don't see straight away
everything you need to see.

1734
01:19:06,150 --> 01:19:07,860
You need to go to
each of the villages

1735
01:19:07,860 --> 01:19:09,401
individually to know
what's going on.

1736
01:19:09,401 --> 01:19:11,770
You sort of can only see
where each village is,

1737
01:19:11,770 --> 01:19:15,562
or where each locality is
and how much health it has.

1738
01:19:15,562 --> 01:19:18,020
Whereas in the final version,
we sort of give you every you

1739
01:19:18,020 --> 01:19:18,649
need to see.

1740
01:19:18,649 --> 01:19:20,190
And it took a long
time to figure out

1741
01:19:20,190 --> 01:19:21,356
how we wanted to do this UI.

1742
01:19:21,356 --> 01:19:23,350
Like, how do we show
what prevention measures

1743
01:19:23,350 --> 01:19:24,190
are in place?

1744
01:19:24,190 --> 01:19:25,690
How do we show
whether the infection

1745
01:19:25,690 --> 01:19:27,990
is growing or decreasing?

1746
01:19:27,990 --> 01:19:30,230
And how do we show which
way the river is flowing?

1747
01:19:30,230 --> 01:19:32,880
All of these questions were
really important and really led

1748
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,650
into the final design.

1749
01:19:35,650 --> 01:19:38,650
Secondly, about like
options, at first we

1750
01:19:38,650 --> 01:19:40,577
had lots of options, too many.

1751
01:19:40,577 --> 01:19:42,910
People did not even want to
figure out what each of them

1752
01:19:42,910 --> 01:19:43,390
did.

1753
01:19:43,390 --> 01:19:45,181
It was too much
information thrown at once.

1754
01:19:45,181 --> 01:19:47,770
And although we thought
that having lots of options

1755
01:19:47,770 --> 01:19:49,840
would lead to meaningful--
like, oh, well,

1756
01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:51,110
you can make these
advanced strategies.

1757
01:19:51,110 --> 01:19:53,151
It really didn't, because
people didn't even want

1758
01:19:53,151 --> 01:19:54,590
to bother learning all that.

1759
01:19:54,590 --> 01:19:58,380
Whereas, in the final
version, having fewer options

1760
01:19:58,380 --> 01:20:02,090
made it much easier or
like much less scary

1761
01:20:02,090 --> 01:20:04,520
when you opened up the list
of options, the actions

1762
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:06,340
that you have available
to you as a player.

1763
01:20:06,340 --> 01:20:08,560
And it was much more
accessible, while still

1764
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:12,104
making the strategies diverse.

1765
01:20:12,104 --> 01:20:13,770
So now, we're going
to talk a little bit

1766
01:20:13,770 --> 01:20:17,280
about what went wrong in the
process of making the game.

1767
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:21,400
So working together
is really hard,

1768
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,360
because people are
stepping over their toes.

1769
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:24,312
Oh, what do I do now.

1770
01:20:24,312 --> 01:20:26,520
Oh, I can't touch that,
because you're touching that.

1771
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:28,400
Like, all these sort
of problem arise.

1772
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:30,850
And so at first, we really
tried to avoid that.

1773
01:20:30,850 --> 01:20:35,010
But then we realized working
apart is even harder than that.

1774
01:20:35,010 --> 01:20:37,030
Initially, you think,
well, if we're each

1775
01:20:37,030 --> 01:20:39,090
working on really sort
of independent parts

1776
01:20:39,090 --> 01:20:40,930
and we bring it all together
in the end, that'll be happy.

1777
01:20:40,930 --> 01:20:41,620
Everyone will be happy.

1778
01:20:41,620 --> 01:20:42,911
We're not stepping on our toes.

1779
01:20:42,911 --> 01:20:45,820
We can each work on our own
time and that sort of thing.

1780
01:20:45,820 --> 01:20:48,690
But that turns out not to work
well, because people do things

1781
01:20:48,690 --> 01:20:49,362
differently.

1782
01:20:49,362 --> 01:20:51,070
People follow-- like,
even simple things,

1783
01:20:51,070 --> 01:20:53,600
like coding style and how
you name your variables

1784
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:55,700
and all that sort of
stuff makes a difference.

1785
01:20:55,700 --> 01:20:57,560
And if you're not
working together closely,

1786
01:20:57,560 --> 01:20:59,410
and if you sort of
working apart, bringing

1787
01:20:59,410 --> 01:21:02,067
that together was a
huge hassle at the end.

1788
01:21:02,067 --> 01:21:04,400
Like we spent a lot of time
just making sure everything,

1789
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:06,483
all the components that
we had made as individuals

1790
01:21:06,483 --> 01:21:09,074
worked together, just
to get the game running.

1791
01:21:09,074 --> 01:21:10,740
LAUREN: So another
thing that went wrong

1792
01:21:10,740 --> 01:21:12,900
was the motivation
for this project.

1793
01:21:12,900 --> 01:21:15,020
At the very beginning,
the team wasn't

1794
01:21:15,020 --> 01:21:17,370
very passionate about the
project to begin with,

1795
01:21:17,370 --> 01:21:18,689
which is really hard.

1796
01:21:18,689 --> 01:21:20,230
It's really hard to
work on something

1797
01:21:20,230 --> 01:21:22,716
that you don't really
love and want to do.

1798
01:21:22,716 --> 01:21:25,090
And I thought, you know, maybe
this will just get better.

1799
01:21:25,090 --> 01:21:27,310
People will start to have ideas.

1800
01:21:27,310 --> 01:21:29,060
They'll feel ownership
of the project.

1801
01:21:29,060 --> 01:21:31,490
And then they'll be more
motivated to work on it.

1802
01:21:31,490 --> 01:21:33,190
But that's not true.

1803
01:21:33,190 --> 01:21:35,600
People, if they start
off in a bad place,

1804
01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:37,100
they're not going
to get any better.

1805
01:21:37,100 --> 01:21:40,520
You really have to focus
on somehow helping people

1806
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:43,990
to either learn to
love the project

1807
01:21:43,990 --> 01:21:48,230
or learn to just be
able to work on it.

1808
01:21:48,230 --> 01:21:50,770
And this can be done
through different ways.

1809
01:21:50,770 --> 01:21:52,320
The easiest way is
just to get people

1810
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:54,320
to realize like we
have to do this,

1811
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:56,560
so you have to work on it.

1812
01:21:56,560 --> 01:21:59,690
And I found it as-- towards
the end of the semester,

1813
01:21:59,690 --> 01:22:01,300
it took me to
figure this one out.

1814
01:22:01,300 --> 01:22:03,350
But if you give people
vague instructions,

1815
01:22:03,350 --> 01:22:06,010
they will wait until
the very last second.

1816
01:22:06,010 --> 01:22:07,810
But if you make
it crystal clear,

1817
01:22:07,810 --> 01:22:10,560
exactly what you want
them to do and give

1818
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:12,950
them is as detailed
instructions you can,

1819
01:22:12,950 --> 01:22:16,490
it's much more likely that it'll
get done in a timely manner.

1820
01:22:16,490 --> 01:22:19,100
And also, we felt
really restricted

1821
01:22:19,100 --> 01:22:21,600
by the topic and
the requirements,

1822
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:25,160
which was another just
problem in motivation.

1823
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:28,680
And so crunch is something
I was sort of alluding to,

1824
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:30,860
is that when you
have the instructions

1825
01:22:30,860 --> 01:22:33,560
and you don't want to do
something, you will put it off.

1826
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:34,190
I do it.

1827
01:22:34,190 --> 01:22:38,259
I am sure everyone else does it
that I don't want to do this.

1828
01:22:38,259 --> 01:22:40,050
I don't understand what
they want me to do,

1829
01:22:40,050 --> 01:22:42,820
so I'm just going to wait
until the last possible second

1830
01:22:42,820 --> 01:22:45,230
when I have to do it
or I'm going to fail.

1831
01:22:45,230 --> 01:22:47,190
And that's when it
gets done, which

1832
01:22:47,190 --> 01:22:49,770
is what I think was a
leading thing to our crunch.

1833
01:22:49,770 --> 01:22:51,280
And so we had
constant crunching.

1834
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:53,160
Every time we knew
we had to play test,

1835
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,950
the night before,
everyone was up working.

1836
01:22:55,950 --> 01:22:59,675
And there was a huge
crunch after Thanksgiving.

1837
01:22:59,675 --> 01:23:01,550
We took until Thanksgiving,
and then everyone

1838
01:23:01,550 --> 01:23:04,605
realized we don't have that much
for longer in this semester.

1839
01:23:04,605 --> 01:23:06,230
We only have like a
week and three days

1840
01:23:06,230 --> 01:23:08,090
before this final presentation.

1841
01:23:08,090 --> 01:23:10,660
So there was a lot
of crunch there.

1842
01:23:10,660 --> 01:23:13,070
And the work was low priority
because of other classes,

1843
01:23:13,070 --> 01:23:16,190
which is a really unique problem
to doing a school project, as

1844
01:23:16,190 --> 01:23:18,720
opposed to doing a
project in the real world,

1845
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:21,060
where people still might
have other things to do,

1846
01:23:21,060 --> 01:23:22,272
but this is their job.

1847
01:23:22,272 --> 01:23:24,230
Whereas, when this is a
class, you can't really

1848
01:23:24,230 --> 01:23:25,525
fire someone from your class.

1849
01:23:28,447 --> 01:23:30,530
Let's see, you want to
talk about what we learned?

1850
01:23:30,530 --> 01:23:31,880
STUDENT: Yeah.

1851
01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:35,406
So what we learned in terms of
game design, at least for me

1852
01:23:35,406 --> 01:23:38,030
and probably for everyone on the
team, what was most surprising

1853
01:23:38,030 --> 01:23:40,930
is that giving more choices and
making a game more complicated

1854
01:23:40,930 --> 01:23:42,310
does not make it more fun.

1855
01:23:42,310 --> 01:23:43,940
Initially I thought,
more choices

1856
01:23:43,940 --> 01:23:46,900
means more strategic
diversity or whatever,

1857
01:23:46,900 --> 01:23:48,700
and that'll make
everything more exciting.

1858
01:23:48,700 --> 01:23:49,600
And every time
you play the game,

1859
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:50,610
you can try something different.

1860
01:23:50,610 --> 01:23:51,980
But that's not really true.

1861
01:23:51,980 --> 01:23:54,730
Having less choices
can be even more

1862
01:23:54,730 --> 01:23:56,647
fun than having more
choices, because then you

1863
01:23:56,647 --> 01:23:58,563
don't have-- like when
the player doesn't have

1864
01:23:58,563 --> 01:24:00,220
to think about as
much at once, they

1865
01:24:00,220 --> 01:24:03,480
can really go deeper into
what the current options are.

1866
01:24:03,480 --> 01:24:06,150
So that was really surprising.

1867
01:24:06,150 --> 01:24:09,380
Also in terms of game design,
requirements can be restrictive

1868
01:24:09,380 --> 01:24:13,570
and often you can't do
what you want to do.

1869
01:24:13,570 --> 01:24:15,602
You as a designer can't
do what you want to do,

1870
01:24:15,602 --> 01:24:18,060
can't fulfill your own fantasy
for what the game is opposed

1871
01:24:18,060 --> 01:24:19,880
to look like, because
of the requirements,

1872
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:21,650
because of what clients want,
and because of what players

1873
01:24:21,650 --> 01:24:22,240
want.

1874
01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:25,560
And you have to learn to
sort of deal with that.

1875
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:27,220
The designer is
not always right.

1876
01:24:27,220 --> 01:24:29,594
Just because I have an idea
for what the game is supposed

1877
01:24:29,594 --> 01:24:31,360
to look like, if I
test on 10 people

1878
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:33,520
and all 10 people
say I don't like it,

1879
01:24:33,520 --> 01:24:36,550
I'd prefer it to be this
way, then I'm wrong.

1880
01:24:36,550 --> 01:24:37,484
I have to change that.

1881
01:24:37,484 --> 01:24:39,400
And that's something
that's hard to deal with,

1882
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:41,191
but it's something you
have to learn to do.

1883
01:24:43,150 --> 01:24:46,600
Yeah, we learned a
lot about cholera.

1884
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:49,270
Basically, as we said
in one of first slides,

1885
01:24:49,270 --> 01:24:52,030
washing hands is
overpowered in real life.

1886
01:24:52,030 --> 01:24:54,634
If you just wash-- very simple
things can prevent cholera.

1887
01:24:54,634 --> 01:24:57,050
And that's something we wanted
to get across in this game.

1888
01:24:57,050 --> 01:24:59,430
In the game, washing hands
is overpowered, just so

1889
01:24:59,430 --> 01:25:01,690
that they get that idea across.

1890
01:25:01,690 --> 01:25:04,524
And about coding, there's
a lot of simple things

1891
01:25:04,524 --> 01:25:06,190
you can do to really
polish up the game,

1892
01:25:06,190 --> 01:25:09,100
like tweening, which is a
animation API available,

1893
01:25:09,100 --> 01:25:10,610
and Phaser that we used.

1894
01:25:10,610 --> 01:25:13,480
But really any animation API
that does like little things,

1895
01:25:13,480 --> 01:25:15,410
like having the window
pop up instead of just

1896
01:25:15,410 --> 01:25:19,270
appear, having things go like
"paching!" and move in and out,

1897
01:25:19,270 --> 01:25:21,894
that makes a huge difference
for very little effort.

1898
01:25:21,894 --> 01:25:23,810
And it makes the game
look much more polished.

1899
01:25:27,780 --> 01:25:30,770
In terms of future changes
for the game itself,

1900
01:25:30,770 --> 01:25:33,734
we initially planned to
have seasons and lots

1901
01:25:33,734 --> 01:25:36,400
of random events that would sort
of make the game more exciting,

1902
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:38,650
especially near the end,
once all four villages are up

1903
01:25:38,650 --> 01:25:41,020
and you sort of get
into this pattern.

1904
01:25:41,020 --> 01:25:45,160
But we basically didn't
have time to do that.

1905
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:47,740
And then the second thing that
at least I personally wanted

1906
01:25:47,740 --> 01:25:50,180
to add to the game was more
advanced infection models.

1907
01:25:50,180 --> 01:25:52,566
It turns out that modeling
infection is-- well,

1908
01:25:52,566 --> 01:25:53,690
it's not surprising really.

1909
01:25:53,690 --> 01:25:55,400
But modeling infection
is really hard.

1910
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:56,910
Balancing your
model of infection

1911
01:25:56,910 --> 01:25:58,550
is really, really hard.

1912
01:25:58,550 --> 01:26:01,560
And it's sort of
almost impossible

1913
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:03,590
to make it have this
sort of smooth curve,

1914
01:26:03,590 --> 01:26:05,280
where it starts out
easy and then gets

1915
01:26:05,280 --> 01:26:07,760
sort of hard at the
end but not too hard.

1916
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:10,260
Infection is
exponential in nature.

1917
01:26:10,260 --> 01:26:11,940
And that's really
hard to deal with.

1918
01:26:11,940 --> 01:26:13,324
If I had more time
to work on it,

1919
01:26:13,324 --> 01:26:14,740
I'd probably spend
a lot more time

1920
01:26:14,740 --> 01:26:17,110
thinking about different
models to use for infection

1921
01:26:17,110 --> 01:26:18,560
and make it easier to balance.

1922
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,850
Like right now, you change
like one little number

1923
01:26:20,850 --> 01:26:22,560
by hardly anything,
and the game goes

1924
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,600
from really, really easy
to completely impossible,

1925
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:28,884
just because of the
nature of infection.

1926
01:26:28,884 --> 01:26:31,640
LAUREN: And lastly, future
changes for the class.

1927
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:34,380
One of things that we all
felt would be really useful

1928
01:26:34,380 --> 01:26:38,230
is if the professors had
enforced the sprint task

1929
01:26:38,230 --> 01:26:40,540
list, because you could
submit your sprint task list

1930
01:26:40,540 --> 01:26:41,790
at the beginning of your week.

1931
01:26:41,790 --> 01:26:44,820
But you never had to tell them
if you actually did everything.

1932
01:26:44,820 --> 01:26:46,470
You just had another
sprint task list,

1933
01:26:46,470 --> 01:26:49,180
which maybe if that it
was looked at carefully,

1934
01:26:49,180 --> 01:26:52,190
there might be the exact same
things two weeks in a row.

1935
01:26:52,190 --> 01:26:56,140
But a lot of times, you
never heard anything

1936
01:26:56,140 --> 01:26:57,090
about your progress.

1937
01:26:57,090 --> 01:26:59,300
You just kind of
had your progress.

1938
01:26:59,300 --> 01:27:01,270
And it wasn't until
the end that we really

1939
01:27:01,270 --> 01:27:03,270
realized like, oh, we're
kind of far behind.

1940
01:27:03,270 --> 01:27:04,200
We need to fix that.

1941
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:06,310
So it would have been nice
earlier in the project

1942
01:27:06,310 --> 01:27:09,704
to have that sort of feedback,
like, hey, you should be--

1943
01:27:09,704 --> 01:27:10,620
are these things done?

1944
01:27:10,620 --> 01:27:12,380
You should be doing more.

1945
01:27:12,380 --> 01:27:14,320
And more freedom in
choosing the topic,

1946
01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:17,232
like we mentioned before,
we felt really restricted.

1947
01:27:17,232 --> 01:27:19,690
There were things we wanted to
do that we couldn't, because

1948
01:27:19,690 --> 01:27:21,351
of the confines of this project.

1949
01:27:21,351 --> 01:27:23,350
And so a little more
freedom would've been nice.

1950
01:27:23,350 --> 01:27:26,590
But you know, it's a class.

1951
01:27:26,590 --> 01:27:29,160
So finally, does anyone have
any questions or comments,

1952
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:29,659
feedback?

1953
01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:40,890
AUDIENCE: OK.

1954
01:27:40,890 --> 01:27:42,719
What would you do
if-- what would

1955
01:27:42,719 --> 01:27:45,010
your team have done if they
were able to choose a topic

1956
01:27:45,010 --> 01:27:47,010
or have a little
bit more freedom?

1957
01:27:47,010 --> 01:27:49,650
Was there anything in particular
you talked about as a team?

1958
01:27:49,650 --> 01:27:51,816
Or when you're talking about
things you wanted to do

1959
01:27:51,816 --> 01:27:53,940
but the client said no.

1960
01:27:53,940 --> 01:27:55,520
AUDIENCE: Humor.

1961
01:27:55,520 --> 01:27:58,350
STUDENT: Yeah, in terms of like
if we were doing about cholera,

1962
01:27:58,350 --> 01:27:59,850
things we wanted
to do about cholera

1963
01:27:59,850 --> 01:28:03,780
but we couldn't, like
death is not in the game.

1964
01:28:03,780 --> 01:28:06,060
We can't make it like
overly morbid or anything,

1965
01:28:06,060 --> 01:28:08,560
not that we-- But there
are certain things,

1966
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:10,730
like we wanted to
have more options.

1967
01:28:10,730 --> 01:28:16,200
But since the game is sort of
oriented towards-- or rather,

1968
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:18,120
the options have to be
oriented towards what

1969
01:28:18,120 --> 01:28:19,690
an individual can do.

1970
01:28:19,690 --> 01:28:22,650
So the game is
supposed to teach kid

1971
01:28:22,650 --> 01:28:24,620
to young adult as an
individual how can I

1972
01:28:24,620 --> 01:28:27,510
prevent cholera, which is
like you wash your hands.

1973
01:28:27,510 --> 01:28:29,340
You boil your water,
that sort of thing.

1974
01:28:29,340 --> 01:28:34,410
But things like put basically
bathrooms, the sorts of things

1975
01:28:34,410 --> 01:28:38,730
that a government or the group
of people as a whole could do,

1976
01:28:38,730 --> 01:28:40,147
but an individual
can't really do,

1977
01:28:40,147 --> 01:28:41,813
were options that we
wanted in the game,

1978
01:28:41,813 --> 01:28:44,100
and could have sort of
interesting mechanical effects

1979
01:28:44,100 --> 01:28:47,820
within the game, we couldn't do,
because it doesn't make sense.

1980
01:28:47,820 --> 01:28:49,600
I can't teach you
to make bathrooms.

1981
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:51,785
You can't, not really,
as an individual.

1982
01:28:51,785 --> 01:28:53,910
LAUREN: Yeah, and sort
of as Jen shouted out,

1983
01:28:53,910 --> 01:28:54,940
tongue-in-cheek humor.

1984
01:28:54,940 --> 01:28:56,900
There was a lot of
time during the game

1985
01:28:56,900 --> 01:28:58,941
where we're like, oh, we
should have this happen,

1986
01:28:58,941 --> 01:28:59,950
but it was offensive.

1987
01:28:59,950 --> 01:29:01,010
It was funny.

1988
01:29:01,010 --> 01:29:03,760
It would be funny to
an American audience.

1989
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:06,274
But because it was for
an audience in Ghana,

1990
01:29:06,274 --> 01:29:08,190
we changed the-- we
didn't know whether to use

1991
01:29:08,190 --> 01:29:09,440
village or town or city.

1992
01:29:09,440 --> 01:29:10,440
And so we asked Pablo.

1993
01:29:10,440 --> 01:29:12,180
And he said use the
word locality, which

1994
01:29:12,180 --> 01:29:14,340
to everyone playing
it, play testers,

1995
01:29:14,340 --> 01:29:16,560
we're like this is
a really weird word.

1996
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:17,800
Why does it say locality?

1997
01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:20,150
And even we forget to
use the word locality.

1998
01:29:20,150 --> 01:29:22,400
And we call it a
village accidentally.

1999
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:24,690
And so we'd want a little
bit more freedom there

2000
01:29:24,690 --> 01:29:27,640
and sort of make it maybe
a more humorous game.

2001
01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:29,190
But we didn't really--
we were really

2002
01:29:29,190 --> 01:29:30,400
afraid of being offensive.

2003
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:31,941
That was like one
of the first things

2004
01:29:31,941 --> 01:29:34,009
we talked about when
we started making

2005
01:29:34,009 --> 01:29:36,300
the game is how do we make
sure we don't offend anybody

2006
01:29:36,300 --> 01:29:36,841
accidentally.

2007
01:29:40,956 --> 01:29:43,920
AUDIENCE: Any other questions?

2008
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:46,384
We're done?

2009
01:29:46,384 --> 01:29:46,884
All right.

2010
01:29:46,884 --> 01:29:47,620
LAUREN: Thank you.

2011
01:29:47,620 --> 01:29:48,453
AUDIENCE: Thank you.

2012
01:29:48,453 --> 01:29:49,166
AUDIENCE: Thanks.

2013
01:29:51,993 --> 01:29:54,060
LIZ RITA: We're the
Saving Gora Gora team.

2014
01:29:54,060 --> 01:29:57,035
I'm Liz, Rachel, Kevin, Justin.

2015
01:29:57,035 --> 01:29:58,410
There are others
in the audience.

2016
01:30:01,315 --> 01:30:03,800
Go to the beginning.

2017
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:04,840
Yeah.

2018
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:11,240
So to start us off, I'm going
to talk about, let's see,

2019
01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:15,730
the goals that we had
from the beginning.

2020
01:30:15,730 --> 01:30:18,310
Our product is about cholera
and cholera prevention.

2021
01:30:18,310 --> 01:30:21,060
And our audience was
Ghanaian children.

2022
01:30:21,060 --> 01:30:25,890
So we had to find a way to
connect Ghanaian children

2023
01:30:25,890 --> 01:30:27,820
to this information
about cholera

2024
01:30:27,820 --> 01:30:32,140
prevention, positive behaviors,
proactive things they can

2025
01:30:32,140 --> 01:30:34,480
do in the community, while
also having a fun game

2026
01:30:34,480 --> 01:30:37,220
that they can relate to.

2027
01:30:37,220 --> 01:30:39,486
What this ultimately
meant is that we

2028
01:30:39,486 --> 01:30:41,110
had to do a lot of
research, because we

2029
01:30:41,110 --> 01:30:44,190
didn't have a direct
connection with our audience.

2030
01:30:44,190 --> 01:30:46,190
And we couldn't
directly play test

2031
01:30:46,190 --> 01:30:49,840
with children from
Ghana, ages 8 to 13.

2032
01:30:49,840 --> 01:30:53,500
We had to make a lot of
assumptions, which ended up

2033
01:30:53,500 --> 01:30:57,000
being wrong after we talked to
Pablo, specifically about them.

2034
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:58,310
So we did some more research.

2035
01:30:58,310 --> 01:31:02,820
We looked at Ghana,
cartoons targeted

2036
01:31:02,820 --> 01:31:04,330
towards children in Ghana.

2037
01:31:04,330 --> 01:31:09,850
And from those cartoons, we
looked at the color palettes,

2038
01:31:09,850 --> 01:31:13,350
some behaviors within
the cartoon specifically,

2039
01:31:13,350 --> 01:31:17,830
and names and sort of character
designs from the cartoons.

2040
01:31:17,830 --> 01:31:22,960
And we got Ghana research
from documentaries and stuff,

2041
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:27,880
also informed decisions that
we used to change minigames,

2042
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:31,170
which we'll talk about
later in the presentation.

2043
01:31:31,170 --> 01:31:35,186
A quick overview of the
narrative-- you start the game.

2044
01:31:35,186 --> 01:31:36,810
There is this monster
hiding in a bush.

2045
01:31:36,810 --> 01:31:38,070
You go to check him out.

2046
01:31:38,070 --> 01:31:41,590
It turns out that
he's being persecuted,

2047
01:31:41,590 --> 01:31:44,500
because everybody in
Gora Gora is sick.

2048
01:31:44,500 --> 01:31:46,030
And they think he's the cause.

2049
01:31:46,030 --> 01:31:49,200
And Sal is actually a cool guy.

2050
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,350
You're a bunny, and
your name is Kojo,

2051
01:31:51,350 --> 01:31:53,500
and you're a cool guy, too.

2052
01:31:53,500 --> 01:31:56,250
So you're asked to prove
that he's innocent.

2053
01:31:56,250 --> 01:32:01,170
And you take that up, because
you're an awesome person.

2054
01:32:01,170 --> 01:32:03,500
The gameplay ends
up being that you

2055
01:32:03,500 --> 01:32:07,140
explore the town,
looking for ways

2056
01:32:07,140 --> 01:32:09,400
to prove that Sal is innocent.

2057
01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:12,170
And you do that by
unlocking these minigames

2058
01:32:12,170 --> 01:32:13,810
and getting clues
from the minigames

2059
01:32:13,810 --> 01:32:15,680
after you defeat the minigames.

2060
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:18,110
And after each minigame, you
can go talk to the mayor,

2061
01:32:18,110 --> 01:32:21,667
or you have the choice to,
because he has an office.

2062
01:32:21,667 --> 01:32:23,500
And when you have all
the clues, you finally

2063
01:32:23,500 --> 01:32:28,356
convince the mayor that Sal
is harmless, which is great.

2064
01:32:28,356 --> 01:32:30,890
KEVIN WANG: So
our first minigame

2065
01:32:30,890 --> 01:32:32,560
dealt with water filtration.

2066
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:36,190
And the concept behind it is
that friends and neighbors

2067
01:32:36,190 --> 01:32:39,850
are bringing containers
of water to Kojo's mom.

2068
01:32:39,850 --> 01:32:42,380
And they want to see whether
the water is safe to drink,

2069
01:32:42,380 --> 01:32:45,650
or whether they have to purify
it beforehand by boiling.

2070
01:32:48,540 --> 01:32:51,520
So that, and when we
initially designed our game,

2071
01:32:51,520 --> 01:32:56,330
it turned out to be water
filtration kind of factoring,

2072
01:32:56,330 --> 01:32:59,590
in which bottles of water were
going down a conveyor belt.

2073
01:32:59,590 --> 01:33:03,120
And you were asked to remove
the bottles that were unpurified

2074
01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:06,290
and that needed to be cleaned.

2075
01:33:06,290 --> 01:33:10,980
So as you see on the left, that
was our very first iteration.

2076
01:33:10,980 --> 01:33:14,480
And I guess the issue with
that, as Pablo brought up to us,

2077
01:33:14,480 --> 01:33:17,030
was that it wasn't
relatable to the kids

2078
01:33:17,030 --> 01:33:19,800
that we were trying to target,
because these kids likely

2079
01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:23,879
won't ever see a facility that
has these conveyor belts, that

2080
01:33:23,879 --> 01:33:25,170
does this kind of purification.

2081
01:33:25,170 --> 01:33:28,510
So we had to go through
several iterations

2082
01:33:28,510 --> 01:33:32,260
to figure out a way to make
the game a lot more relatable.

2083
01:33:32,260 --> 01:33:36,260
And our final product is on the
left-- or on the right, sorry.

2084
01:33:36,260 --> 01:33:38,190
And as you can see,
it's outside one

2085
01:33:38,190 --> 01:33:39,890
of the homes in the village.

2086
01:33:39,890 --> 01:33:44,330
And your mom is just standing
behind a pot of boiling water.

2087
01:33:44,330 --> 01:33:50,020
And now, you just have plain
containers, bowls, buckets,

2088
01:33:50,020 --> 01:33:51,160
tanks.

2089
01:33:51,160 --> 01:33:54,750
And your goal is to kind of see
where the water is coming from,

2090
01:33:54,750 --> 01:33:58,500
how warm it is, and try
to figure out whether you

2091
01:33:58,500 --> 01:34:01,380
want to boil it or not.

2092
01:34:01,380 --> 01:34:06,040
So some challenges we faced
were, in our first iteration,

2093
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:07,760
it was more of a
real time game play.

2094
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:10,120
You were kind of rushing
against time to pull off

2095
01:34:10,120 --> 01:34:14,470
all the unfiltered water,
as all the bottles continued

2096
01:34:14,470 --> 01:34:16,120
to scroll to the
right, regardless

2097
01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:17,844
of how fast you were going.

2098
01:34:17,844 --> 01:34:19,510
But then we realized
that took away kind

2099
01:34:19,510 --> 01:34:22,700
of from the educational aspect,
because it forced the player

2100
01:34:22,700 --> 01:34:27,290
to just kind of hurriedly just
pull everything that they can.

2101
01:34:27,290 --> 01:34:30,410
So instead, we changed
it to a styled gameplay

2102
01:34:30,410 --> 01:34:33,820
that was kind of at
the player's pace.

2103
01:34:33,820 --> 01:34:37,130
They can do everything as
fast or as slow as they want.

2104
01:34:37,130 --> 01:34:40,400
And that, I think, gives
the player a better chance

2105
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:42,700
to kind of learn
everything there

2106
01:34:42,700 --> 01:34:44,215
is to learn from the minigame.

2107
01:34:47,228 --> 01:34:51,480
RACHEL WANG: Cool, so the second
minigame is a water collection

2108
01:34:51,480 --> 01:34:54,650
game, where you're asked to help
your friend [? Korku ?] find

2109
01:34:54,650 --> 01:34:56,830
where to collect water from.

2110
01:34:56,830 --> 01:34:58,581
And so with this
development process,

2111
01:34:58,581 --> 01:35:00,080
it was kind of
similar to what Kevin

2112
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:03,680
was saying about making it,
like have as high of a learning

2113
01:35:03,680 --> 01:35:05,610
value as possible.

2114
01:35:05,610 --> 01:35:08,940
And then another aspect of this
game was making it fail-safe.

2115
01:35:08,940 --> 01:35:11,100
So obviously, we thought
there was one right answer

2116
01:35:11,100 --> 01:35:13,940
that the player should
take away from it.

2117
01:35:13,940 --> 01:35:16,290
But we didn't want
them to fail and then

2118
01:35:16,290 --> 01:35:19,030
not win the game at the end,
if they were to not choose

2119
01:35:19,030 --> 01:35:20,450
the right location.

2120
01:35:20,450 --> 01:35:23,070
So one way we dealt
with that was,

2121
01:35:23,070 --> 01:35:26,300
every time the player chose
a wrong location, there'd

2122
01:35:26,300 --> 01:35:29,060
be immediate feedback,
saying, oh, this

2123
01:35:29,060 --> 01:35:32,750
isn't such a good place to
collect water from because.

2124
01:35:32,750 --> 01:35:34,580
And so as you can
see, this example

2125
01:35:34,580 --> 01:35:36,580
is, if you were to collect
water from the river,

2126
01:35:36,580 --> 01:35:39,110
you don't know if there's
excreta from upstream

2127
01:35:39,110 --> 01:35:42,250
or if someone's peeing
in the river right now.

2128
01:35:42,250 --> 01:35:46,060
So then it'll ask you
to try another place.

2129
01:35:46,060 --> 01:35:48,140
We also did a feature
cut pretty early on,

2130
01:35:48,140 --> 01:35:50,940
which was also finding someone
to dispose of your excreta.

2131
01:35:50,940 --> 01:35:54,880
And so we focused on the
water, which would hopefully

2132
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:57,460
focus the player's
attention in figuring out

2133
01:35:57,460 --> 01:36:00,890
where to place water and really
think about the water aspect

2134
01:36:00,890 --> 01:36:04,700
and not so much as another
aspect of the game.

2135
01:36:04,700 --> 01:36:07,541
So the other challenge
was, as Liz and Kevin

2136
01:36:07,541 --> 01:36:10,040
already pointed out, was there's
a huge cultural difference.

2137
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:13,630
So again, I have like a
before and after shot of what

2138
01:36:13,630 --> 01:36:15,110
our landscape looked like.

2139
01:36:15,110 --> 01:36:17,810
And so originally, there
was snow-capped mountains,

2140
01:36:17,810 --> 01:36:18,810
a lot of grass.

2141
01:36:18,810 --> 01:36:21,390
But from our research, we
saw that this didn't really

2142
01:36:21,390 --> 01:36:23,410
look like Ghana landscape.

2143
01:36:23,410 --> 01:36:25,160
We had a water
treatment facility,

2144
01:36:25,160 --> 01:36:28,710
which originally was the correct
place to collect water from.

2145
01:36:28,710 --> 01:36:31,470
But we eventually changed
that to be a well.

2146
01:36:31,470 --> 01:36:35,110
And so that's more
realistic in terms of where

2147
01:36:35,110 --> 01:36:36,780
people collect water in Ghana.

2148
01:36:36,780 --> 01:36:40,310
Additionally, at the
end there is a task bar,

2149
01:36:40,310 --> 01:36:42,430
so it provides
you more feedback.

2150
01:36:42,430 --> 01:36:44,020
If you clicked on
any of the buildings

2151
01:36:44,020 --> 01:36:46,950
it'll provide you feedback
about what that place is,

2152
01:36:46,950 --> 01:36:49,132
and whether or not you
should or shouldn't

2153
01:36:49,132 --> 01:36:50,506
be placing water there.

2154
01:36:53,282 --> 01:36:54,740
JUSTIN MARTINEZ:
Our final minigame

2155
01:36:54,740 --> 01:36:58,400
is focused around teaching
the symptoms of cholera

2156
01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:00,510
and the importance
of early prevention

2157
01:37:00,510 --> 01:37:02,620
and recognizing the
early signs of cholera

2158
01:37:02,620 --> 01:37:05,210
to prevent the disease
from spreading.

2159
01:37:05,210 --> 01:37:07,680
So the premise of this game
is that the doctor in the town

2160
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:08,280
is very busy.

2161
01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:09,988
He can't go out into
the town to actually

2162
01:37:09,988 --> 01:37:12,300
check on patients to see
if they're seeing any

2163
01:37:12,300 --> 01:37:13,910
of the early signs of cholera.

2164
01:37:13,910 --> 01:37:17,170
So he asks you to help him
by going out and talking

2165
01:37:17,170 --> 01:37:19,690
to some of your friends in
town, and then asking them

2166
01:37:19,690 --> 01:37:21,430
if they're having
any of the symptoms,

2167
01:37:21,430 --> 01:37:23,221
and then ask them to
come in to the doctor.

2168
01:37:25,510 --> 01:37:27,689
We initially started
off by having

2169
01:37:27,689 --> 01:37:30,230
this game be a game where you
help the doctor in the doctor's

2170
01:37:30,230 --> 01:37:30,774
office.

2171
01:37:30,774 --> 01:37:32,440
And he's diagnosing
patients, and you're

2172
01:37:32,440 --> 01:37:34,360
sort of diagnosing
the patients with him.

2173
01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:35,984
And we realized that
this would quickly

2174
01:37:35,984 --> 01:37:37,820
turn into sort of a
quiz-type of game,

2175
01:37:37,820 --> 01:37:40,284
and it would really detract
from the learning aspect.

2176
01:37:40,284 --> 01:37:42,825
It would essentially the same
as just reading the systems out

2177
01:37:42,825 --> 01:37:43,980
of a pamphlet.

2178
01:37:43,980 --> 01:37:47,010
So we decided that by adding
more interactivity by forcing

2179
01:37:47,010 --> 01:37:49,070
the player to go
out into the village

2180
01:37:49,070 --> 01:37:51,200
and actually find
people and talk to them

2181
01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:53,770
and then ask them to
come to the clinic

2182
01:37:53,770 --> 01:37:56,080
would be a lot more engaging,
while still maintaining

2183
01:37:56,080 --> 01:37:58,870
the same educational aspect
about trying to search

2184
01:37:58,870 --> 01:38:00,790
for the right symptoms.

2185
01:38:00,790 --> 01:38:04,240
Additionally, we
made a change where

2186
01:38:04,240 --> 01:38:07,880
we had the player go talk to
some of the villagers that

2187
01:38:07,880 --> 01:38:08,940
were adults.

2188
01:38:08,940 --> 01:38:12,160
And then we realized that--
after speaking with Pablo,

2189
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:13,930
that the social
hierarchy in Ghana

2190
01:38:13,930 --> 01:38:16,680
is not necessarily that
of the United States.

2191
01:38:16,680 --> 01:38:19,360
And this sort of
interaction, where

2192
01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:21,730
a child asks something or
sort of demands something

2193
01:38:21,730 --> 01:38:23,280
of an adult, isn't
really something

2194
01:38:23,280 --> 01:38:25,470
that would happen, just
because of the stricter

2195
01:38:25,470 --> 01:38:26,230
social hierarchy.

2196
01:38:26,230 --> 01:38:28,660
So we decided that it'd
be more appropriate if we

2197
01:38:28,660 --> 01:38:31,140
had the child go talk
to some of his friends

2198
01:38:31,140 --> 01:38:32,460
that were of the same age.

2199
01:38:32,460 --> 01:38:34,362
And then tell
them, since they're

2200
01:38:34,362 --> 01:38:37,970
on the same sort of level,
to go to the doctor's office,

2201
01:38:37,970 --> 01:38:40,734
rather than talking to elders.

2202
01:38:40,734 --> 01:38:42,150
Some of the
challenges that we saw

2203
01:38:42,150 --> 01:38:45,520
were that this game is
heavily dialogue-based.

2204
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:50,460
It's almost entirely interacting
through our dialogue UI.

2205
01:38:50,460 --> 01:38:53,290
And so we needed to do a lot
of iteration on that in order

2206
01:38:53,290 --> 01:38:55,720
to make sure that it was
clear who was speaking

2207
01:38:55,720 --> 01:38:59,422
and give the appropriate choices
so that the player can make

2208
01:38:59,422 --> 01:39:01,760
meaningful decisions while
having his interactions

2209
01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:03,000
with the villagers.

2210
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:05,410
And finally, since it
is so dialogue-heavy,

2211
01:39:05,410 --> 01:39:08,026
there's a problem that comes
when making a game for children

2212
01:39:08,026 --> 01:39:10,150
when you have a lot of
text, because they might not

2213
01:39:10,150 --> 01:39:11,440
be the strongest reader.

2214
01:39:11,440 --> 01:39:13,170
So we focused w
lot on making sure

2215
01:39:13,170 --> 01:39:15,280
that the vocabulary
was simple, and we

2216
01:39:15,280 --> 01:39:17,505
tried to keep the sentence
structure as simple

2217
01:39:17,505 --> 01:39:18,990
as possible, and
straightforward,

2218
01:39:18,990 --> 01:39:20,630
to get the message
across to children.

2219
01:39:23,780 --> 01:39:25,330
So some of the
overall challenges

2220
01:39:25,330 --> 01:39:27,450
that we faced while doing
the game development

2221
01:39:27,450 --> 01:39:29,740
was mastering the
states with Phaser.

2222
01:39:29,740 --> 01:39:31,940
This is sort of an intricacy
of the Phaser engine

2223
01:39:31,940 --> 01:39:35,530
itself, where when you spawn
off the different stages

2224
01:39:35,530 --> 01:39:38,310
of the map, making sure
that we can maintain

2225
01:39:38,310 --> 01:39:41,400
the data across all
these different states,

2226
01:39:41,400 --> 01:39:44,650
so that there can be a sort
of progress through the game.

2227
01:39:44,650 --> 01:39:47,330
And finally, we want to make
sure that the game wasn't

2228
01:39:47,330 --> 01:39:50,480
too difficult. For example,
with the facility game

2229
01:39:50,480 --> 01:39:53,000
at the beginning when we had
the very fast-paced clicking,

2230
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:54,833
and then you would fail
almost all the time.

2231
01:39:54,833 --> 01:39:57,140
We wanted to make sure that
it wasn't too difficult,

2232
01:39:57,140 --> 01:39:59,374
and that it was accessible.

2233
01:39:59,374 --> 01:40:01,040
The cultural disconnect
we touched a bit

2234
01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:03,260
on in some of our
previous games,

2235
01:40:03,260 --> 01:40:06,000
making sure that the
target audience will

2236
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:07,890
be able to play this
game and relate to it

2237
01:40:07,890 --> 01:40:10,050
in order to pull
the message from it,

2238
01:40:10,050 --> 01:40:11,500
and making the play meaningful.

2239
01:40:11,500 --> 01:40:14,640
We wanted to make sure that
the game play was still

2240
01:40:14,640 --> 01:40:16,950
getting the message across,
and finding a good balance

2241
01:40:16,950 --> 01:40:20,148
between education and play.

2242
01:40:20,148 --> 01:40:21,620
RACHEL WANG: So
now I'll talk about

2243
01:40:21,620 --> 01:40:23,410
how our teamwork
worked out, and what

2244
01:40:23,410 --> 01:40:25,130
our process like as a team.

2245
01:40:25,130 --> 01:40:27,290
So we used four main tools.

2246
01:40:27,290 --> 01:40:30,370
The first one being Trello,
to keep track of our tasks

2247
01:40:30,370 --> 01:40:31,100
and progresses.

2248
01:40:31,100 --> 01:40:34,270
So, we'd put all our sprint
task lists, our product backlog,

2249
01:40:34,270 --> 01:40:35,275
on to the Trello.

2250
01:40:35,275 --> 01:40:36,900
People would claim
the different tasks,

2251
01:40:36,900 --> 01:40:39,050
and then be able to say
if they were doing them,

2252
01:40:39,050 --> 01:40:41,340
if they were done, or
if they haven't started.

2253
01:40:41,340 --> 01:40:43,050
And then that means
we could track

2254
01:40:43,050 --> 01:40:45,670
how people's progress was.

2255
01:40:45,670 --> 01:40:47,200
The second one was
weekly meetings.

2256
01:40:47,200 --> 01:40:49,560
So, every week we had
a meeting to either do

2257
01:40:49,560 --> 01:40:52,710
some research about Ghana,
talk about how we could improve

2258
01:40:52,710 --> 01:40:54,820
the game play and make
it more meaningful,

2259
01:40:54,820 --> 01:40:57,140
if we should cut some
features, and whatnot.

2260
01:40:57,140 --> 01:41:00,740
So, these meetings were really
great for quick and efficient

2261
01:41:00,740 --> 01:41:03,590
decisions, and also really
important decisions.

2262
01:41:03,590 --> 01:41:06,755
Our third tool was Slack, which
some other teams talked about.

2263
01:41:06,755 --> 01:41:10,470
But it was really great because,
first, they had Google Drive

2264
01:41:10,470 --> 01:41:13,590
integration, so you could see
when people were pushing code

2265
01:41:13,590 --> 01:41:15,417
if you should be pulling code.

2266
01:41:15,417 --> 01:41:17,750
And then, in addition, we
could have different channels.

2267
01:41:17,750 --> 01:41:20,170
So we had a separate
coding channel,

2268
01:41:20,170 --> 01:41:23,510
where all the coders
could talk to each other,

2269
01:41:23,510 --> 01:41:26,000
and that might not be
relevant to other people.

2270
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:27,960
And then having a
whole team channel

2271
01:41:27,960 --> 01:41:29,460
was also efficient,
because it would

2272
01:41:29,460 --> 01:41:32,374
be faster response than email.

2273
01:41:32,374 --> 01:41:34,040
And then our final
one was Google Drive,

2274
01:41:34,040 --> 01:41:36,180
which is where we
have all our assets,

2275
01:41:36,180 --> 01:41:38,406
had all our dialogues,
our characters.

2276
01:41:38,406 --> 01:41:40,280
And this worked out to
be a really great tool

2277
01:41:40,280 --> 01:41:43,830
for collaborative storage.

2278
01:41:43,830 --> 01:41:46,770
Some downfalls of
this was-- I'll

2279
01:41:46,770 --> 01:41:50,874
talk about the second
part, was basically

2280
01:41:50,874 --> 01:41:53,290
with all these tools you need
to make sure that everyone's

2281
01:41:53,290 --> 01:41:54,390
actually using the tools.

2282
01:41:54,390 --> 01:41:56,860
It's not actually effective
to be using Trello

2283
01:41:56,860 --> 01:41:58,455
if not everyone's using Trello.

2284
01:41:58,455 --> 01:41:59,840
And we found this
to be the case,

2285
01:41:59,840 --> 01:42:02,340
not everyone would be updating
their progress on Trello,

2286
01:42:02,340 --> 01:42:04,460
or not everyone
would be on Slack .

2287
01:42:04,460 --> 01:42:05,950
But some mitigations
we had to that

2288
01:42:05,950 --> 01:42:08,180
is, in like Slack, you can
mention people's names,

2289
01:42:08,180 --> 01:42:09,555
and then it'll
send them an email

2290
01:42:09,555 --> 01:42:13,330
if they're not actually
on Slack at that time.

2291
01:42:13,330 --> 01:42:15,920
We did have to remind people
to be updating the Trello board

2292
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:18,970
or updating their progress
in Slack, or just ping

2293
01:42:18,970 --> 01:42:20,880
people individually in email.

2294
01:42:20,880 --> 01:42:23,002
But I think we worked it out.

2295
01:42:23,002 --> 01:42:24,460
Something we could
have improved on

2296
01:42:24,460 --> 01:42:27,900
was enforcing deadlines,
and having deadlines.

2297
01:42:27,900 --> 01:42:31,550
As Kevin will talk about, we had
different roles between coding

2298
01:42:31,550 --> 01:42:32,770
and art designing.

2299
01:42:32,770 --> 01:42:35,370
So, obviously the
art assets had to be

2300
01:42:35,370 --> 01:42:38,020
done before you could really
code things and put it

2301
01:42:38,020 --> 01:42:39,000
into the game.

2302
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:42,170
So in that aspect, we
should have probably

2303
01:42:42,170 --> 01:42:44,830
had clearer deadlines
so that we could

2304
01:42:44,830 --> 01:42:47,950
stick to a stricter schedule.

2305
01:42:47,950 --> 01:42:50,610
And then, in addition,
we should have probably

2306
01:42:50,610 --> 01:42:53,250
had a bit more
frequent communication

2307
01:42:53,250 --> 01:42:54,520
with the entire team.

2308
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:56,220
So we did have a lot
of communication,

2309
01:42:56,220 --> 01:42:58,840
but sometimes not all the
team members were present,

2310
01:42:58,840 --> 01:43:01,390
and we should have
probably improved

2311
01:43:01,390 --> 01:43:03,610
a bit about sending
out meeting notes

2312
01:43:03,610 --> 01:43:06,140
and catching up people who
weren't at the meetings

2313
01:43:06,140 --> 01:43:08,860
when we made certain decisions.

2314
01:43:08,860 --> 01:43:11,780
And to that regard,
something that we could just

2315
01:43:11,780 --> 01:43:14,730
do for next time is,
send out meeting notes,

2316
01:43:14,730 --> 01:43:16,990
and keep everyone up
to date, and possibly

2317
01:43:16,990 --> 01:43:21,060
even have smaller meetings
where not everyone is present.

2318
01:43:21,060 --> 01:43:22,990
So I guess in terms of
what went right, Kevin

2319
01:43:22,990 --> 01:43:23,940
will talk about that.

2320
01:43:23,940 --> 01:43:25,900
KEVIN WANG: So, as
Rachel was saying,

2321
01:43:25,900 --> 01:43:29,380
we separated a lot of the tasks
of the project between the team

2322
01:43:29,380 --> 01:43:29,880
members.

2323
01:43:29,880 --> 01:43:33,740
And since we had
seven people, we

2324
01:43:33,740 --> 01:43:36,970
designated four to coding,
two to design and art,

2325
01:43:36,970 --> 01:43:38,950
and then a few others
to the other aspects

2326
01:43:38,950 --> 01:43:43,010
such as narrative, project
management, and sound.

2327
01:43:43,010 --> 01:43:45,230
So, that actually
helped us a lot,

2328
01:43:45,230 --> 01:43:49,010
in that having only four
coders rather than seven really

2329
01:43:49,010 --> 01:43:52,540
cut down on the number of
merge conflicts and issues

2330
01:43:52,540 --> 01:43:55,590
that we had in
previous projects.

2331
01:43:55,590 --> 01:43:57,220
Because, obviously,
the fewer number

2332
01:43:57,220 --> 01:44:00,010
of people working on each
file, the less likely

2333
01:44:00,010 --> 01:44:01,885
it's all going to
break when people merge

2334
01:44:01,885 --> 01:44:04,216
their stuff together in GitHub.

2335
01:44:04,216 --> 01:44:05,840
And with the art
designers, it actually

2336
01:44:05,840 --> 01:44:07,260
helped to have just two.

2337
01:44:07,260 --> 01:44:10,150
Because, although they
had to do more work,

2338
01:44:10,150 --> 01:44:12,570
it was easier for them to
collaborate and make sure

2339
01:44:12,570 --> 01:44:15,810
that all of their art followed
the same theme, rather than

2340
01:44:15,810 --> 01:44:17,880
coming from three or four
different sources that

2341
01:44:17,880 --> 01:44:19,790
look slightly different.

2342
01:44:19,790 --> 01:44:23,050
Eduardo and Liz were very
capable in making sure

2343
01:44:23,050 --> 01:44:26,150
that all the art had the
same kind of color palate,

2344
01:44:26,150 --> 01:44:27,700
and the same kind
of cultural theme

2345
01:44:27,700 --> 01:44:32,070
to it, which helped, I think,
unify our game in the end.

2346
01:44:32,070 --> 01:44:36,260
And, as Rachel also said, we had
semi-frequent meetings, mostly

2347
01:44:36,260 --> 01:44:38,780
at the end of the weeks,
just to catch up and see

2348
01:44:38,780 --> 01:44:41,040
how everybody was
doing on their parts,

2349
01:44:41,040 --> 01:44:44,240
and what we were planning
on doing for the next week.

2350
01:44:44,240 --> 01:44:46,320
And it also served
as a good time for us

2351
01:44:46,320 --> 01:44:48,130
to really sit down and
get some work done,

2352
01:44:48,130 --> 01:44:52,850
whether it's drawing some new
assets, coding a new minigame.

2353
01:44:52,850 --> 01:44:56,110
And having most of the people
there together at the same time

2354
01:44:56,110 --> 01:44:58,420
allowed us to really
bounce ideas off each other

2355
01:44:58,420 --> 01:45:00,480
when we were implementing
this, which made

2356
01:45:00,480 --> 01:45:02,110
things a lot more efficient.

2357
01:45:02,110 --> 01:45:06,400
And lastly, we realize
that at the beginning,

2358
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:09,930
we had probably more
than we could take on

2359
01:45:09,930 --> 01:45:11,390
over this eight-week period.

2360
01:45:11,390 --> 01:45:14,910
So we did a good job of
cutting features early.

2361
01:45:14,910 --> 01:45:17,440
And the main one we did was
cutting the fourth minigame out

2362
01:45:17,440 --> 01:45:20,510
of our game entirely,
so that we could really

2363
01:45:20,510 --> 01:45:22,920
focus on making the three
minigames that we have

2364
01:45:22,920 --> 01:45:28,029
currently really robust and
really relevant to the ideas

2365
01:45:28,029 --> 01:45:29,070
we were trying to convey.

2366
01:45:31,662 --> 01:45:35,490
RACHEL WANG: So moving forward
from this where hopefully we

2367
01:45:35,490 --> 01:45:38,270
would be able to find more
of our target audience,

2368
01:45:38,270 --> 01:45:39,925
our focus tests helped
a lot whether it

2369
01:45:39,925 --> 01:45:43,550
was speaking to Pablo, other MIT
students, people in the class.

2370
01:45:43,550 --> 01:45:45,960
They gave us a lot of good
feedback about the game.

2371
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:48,670
But obviously we
didn't get a chance

2372
01:45:48,670 --> 01:45:52,520
to speak with Ghanaian kids,
which is our target audience.

2373
01:45:52,520 --> 01:45:55,830
And that could definitely
help if we had a longer period

2374
01:45:55,830 --> 01:46:00,130
and were able to find
even kids ages 8 to 13.

2375
01:46:00,130 --> 01:46:03,020
In terms of iteration,
I think we could still

2376
01:46:03,020 --> 01:46:05,670
focus a bit more on
balancing the difficulty.

2377
01:46:05,670 --> 01:46:08,130
And then we mitigated
that by doing things

2378
01:46:08,130 --> 01:46:13,330
like what Justin said about
changing the text dialogue,

2379
01:46:13,330 --> 01:46:16,460
and also providing a lot of
help tutorials or instructions

2380
01:46:16,460 --> 01:46:17,439
throughout the game.

2381
01:46:17,439 --> 01:46:19,480
But that's something we
could always think about,

2382
01:46:19,480 --> 01:46:22,390
so that even kids younger
than our target audience

2383
01:46:22,390 --> 01:46:24,650
could access the game.

2384
01:46:24,650 --> 01:46:26,480
And then, obviously,
just making sure

2385
01:46:26,480 --> 01:46:30,000
the game is culturally relevant,
thinking about word choices,

2386
01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:35,530
thinking about assets, something
we could always improve on.

2387
01:46:35,530 --> 01:46:38,370
And then, finally, to actually
keep moving forward we

2388
01:46:38,370 --> 01:46:40,170
could implement
another minigame,

2389
01:46:40,170 --> 01:46:42,010
find out other
things about cholera

2390
01:46:42,010 --> 01:46:44,620
we really want to get across,
and add other adventures

2391
01:46:44,620 --> 01:46:46,040
to the game.

2392
01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:50,290
But the game right now is
pretty contained, and gives,

2393
01:46:50,290 --> 01:46:52,850
we think, three valuable
lessons about cholera,

2394
01:46:52,850 --> 01:46:55,360
and three very concrete
preventative actions

2395
01:46:55,360 --> 01:46:57,520
that you can take,
and bring back

2396
01:46:57,520 --> 01:47:00,579
to your village and your family.

2397
01:47:00,579 --> 01:47:02,370
So I guess that's what
we would think about

2398
01:47:02,370 --> 01:47:03,620
if we were going to go for it.

2399
01:47:03,620 --> 01:47:07,819
And now, we'll
move into our demo.

2400
01:47:07,819 --> 01:47:09,360
So, I guess, if
there's any questions

2401
01:47:09,360 --> 01:47:14,945
first we can take those, or else
we'll be looking for a demo-er.

2402
01:47:14,945 --> 01:47:18,130
AUDIENCE: I have a
question regarding

2403
01:47:18,130 --> 01:47:21,140
how you used like the
structure of like having

2404
01:47:21,140 --> 01:47:23,890
the many minigames
inside of a big game.

2405
01:47:23,890 --> 01:47:28,390
I wonder like does that
help splitting the tasks up

2406
01:47:28,390 --> 01:47:30,224
among different
members in the team

2407
01:47:30,224 --> 01:47:31,390
and make the process better?

2408
01:47:31,390 --> 01:47:34,890
Or did that add more difficulty
to finish all the contents

2409
01:47:34,890 --> 01:47:37,699
and correctly tie them together?

2410
01:47:37,699 --> 01:47:39,990
RACHEL WANG: Yes, really, I
think the modularity really

2411
01:47:39,990 --> 01:47:44,470
helps, so the three of us took
the lead on one minigame each.

2412
01:47:44,470 --> 01:47:46,840
But then obviously
there were components

2413
01:47:46,840 --> 01:47:49,910
that cross all the
different minigames.

2414
01:47:49,910 --> 01:47:51,850
So, for example, our
other coder worked a lot

2415
01:47:51,850 --> 01:47:53,930
on the conversation
and dialogue UI that

2416
01:47:53,930 --> 01:47:55,750
shows up in all the minigames.

2417
01:47:55,750 --> 01:47:57,271
And additionally,
at the beginning

2418
01:47:57,271 --> 01:47:59,020
we did run into an
issue where we thought,

2419
01:47:59,020 --> 01:48:01,630
oh, really the game is
just three minigames.

2420
01:48:01,630 --> 01:48:03,680
So we worked to
come up with an idea

2421
01:48:03,680 --> 01:48:05,030
to tie everything together.

2422
01:48:05,030 --> 01:48:08,290
And that ended up being an
inventory clue kind of thing.

2423
01:48:08,290 --> 01:48:11,120
So you could go around town
looking for clues that you

2424
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:13,340
needed to unlock the minigames.

2425
01:48:13,340 --> 01:48:15,820
So, for example, to play the
water collection game you

2426
01:48:15,820 --> 01:48:17,540
need a bowl to
collect the water.

2427
01:48:17,540 --> 01:48:19,284
So you would go
around town and find

2428
01:48:19,284 --> 01:48:21,950
someone-- maybe someone was like
wearing a bucket on their head.

2429
01:48:21,950 --> 01:48:24,580
And you'd be able to collect
that bucket from them

2430
01:48:24,580 --> 01:48:25,890
and then play the game.

2431
01:48:25,890 --> 01:48:28,760
So, in that sense, we
were able to come up

2432
01:48:28,760 --> 01:48:31,590
with this idea that
could tie together

2433
01:48:31,590 --> 01:48:32,989
all the different minigames.

2434
01:48:32,989 --> 01:48:34,280
Does that answer your question?

2435
01:48:37,040 --> 01:48:39,110
AUDIENCE: Is its mother a cat?

2436
01:48:39,110 --> 01:48:41,996
LIZ RITA: Yes, [? Bunnykins' ?]
mother is a cat.

2437
01:48:41,996 --> 01:48:44,401
AUDIENCE: All right. [INAUDIBLE]

2438
01:48:44,401 --> 01:48:46,806
[LAUGHTER]

2439
01:48:46,806 --> 01:48:49,320
AUDIENCE: So, you cut
the minigame number four?

2440
01:48:49,320 --> 01:48:50,195
JUSTIN MARTINEZ: Yes.

2441
01:48:50,195 --> 01:48:52,361
AUDIENCE: About when in the
project did you do that?

2442
01:48:52,361 --> 01:48:54,080
And about how much
work had you actually

2443
01:48:54,080 --> 01:48:56,680
put in to that minigame before
you decided not to complete it?

2444
01:48:56,680 --> 01:48:58,784
JUSTIN MARTINEZ: That
game did not make it

2445
01:48:58,784 --> 01:49:01,712
past the paper prototype.

2446
01:49:01,712 --> 01:49:03,400
After we did the
paper prototype,

2447
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:07,150
we realized that, that
game and the symptoms game

2448
01:49:07,150 --> 01:49:08,640
were actually very similar.

2449
01:49:08,640 --> 01:49:11,840
And so we [? introduced ?] some
or the storytelling aspects

2450
01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:15,397
into the doctor
minigame that we pulled

2451
01:49:15,397 --> 01:49:16,438
from the fourth minigame.

2452
01:49:19,420 --> 01:49:21,408
PROFESSOR 1: Thank you.

2453
01:49:21,408 --> 01:49:25,900
[APPLAUSE]

2454
01:49:25,900 --> 01:49:27,875
[INAUDIBLE] will volunteer.

2455
01:49:27,875 --> 01:49:29,045
Thank you.

2456
01:50:10,020 --> 01:50:11,900
[LAUGHTER]

2457
01:50:11,900 --> 01:50:12,900
AUDIENCE: I sure helped!

2458
01:50:12,900 --> 01:50:16,876
[LAUGHTER]

2459
01:50:38,423 --> 01:50:40,006
From our previous
discussion, I wonder

2460
01:50:40,006 --> 01:50:41,870
if I can take his bucket.

2461
01:50:41,870 --> 01:50:45,940
LIZ RITA: [INAUDIBLE]
like, go closer.

2462
01:50:45,940 --> 01:50:47,050
AUDIENCE: Oh, gosh.

2463
01:50:57,874 --> 01:51:00,334
I don't know if [? Korku's ?]
is going to get that bucket.

2464
01:51:00,334 --> 01:51:02,302
Maybe I'll keep it.

2465
01:51:08,700 --> 01:51:10,475
Wow, I already have two quests.

2466
01:51:10,475 --> 01:51:12,800
[LAUGHTER]

2467
01:51:20,720 --> 01:51:23,195
[LAUGHTER]

2468
01:51:27,650 --> 01:51:30,125
Never play with
fire by yourself.

2469
01:51:34,580 --> 01:51:36,560
[LAUGHTER]

2470
01:51:43,500 --> 01:51:45,040
Whoa, look it's
turned into a cat.

2471
01:51:45,040 --> 01:51:46,956
[LAUGHTER]

2472
01:51:48,872 --> 01:51:49,830
Ah, cool.

2473
01:51:55,110 --> 01:51:57,682
I mean, if I say no, I should
come back later, don't I?

2474
01:51:57,682 --> 01:51:59,570
[LAUGHTER]

2475
01:51:59,570 --> 01:52:02,150
Thank the bowl, and click
me when you're done.

2476
01:52:02,150 --> 01:52:03,180
All right.

2477
01:52:03,180 --> 01:52:07,180
Well, I know where to go,
but we'll do this anyway.

2478
01:52:07,180 --> 01:52:09,070
There's no water there!

2479
01:52:09,070 --> 01:52:10,610
I guess that makes sense.

2480
01:52:10,610 --> 01:52:13,400
If there was water in the house,
I wouldn't need the bucket.

2481
01:52:13,400 --> 01:52:15,220
I do all the wrong things first.

2482
01:52:17,730 --> 01:52:19,980
It looks like there are a
lot of bacteria in the lake.

2483
01:52:19,980 --> 01:52:21,240
I have really good eyes.

2484
01:52:21,240 --> 01:52:23,200
[LAUGHTER]

2485
01:52:28,100 --> 01:52:30,055
You-- I don't want rusty water.

2486
01:52:33,319 --> 01:52:35,485
Oh, the bathroom, that's a
great place to get water.

2487
01:52:35,485 --> 01:52:37,385
I won't go there.

2488
01:52:41,670 --> 01:52:42,780
Yay!

2489
01:52:42,780 --> 01:52:45,530
I have water.

2490
01:52:45,530 --> 01:52:47,258
Can I go swimming?

2491
01:52:47,258 --> 01:52:48,650
Yes, yes, I can.

2492
01:52:51,900 --> 01:52:53,020
I forget what you wanted.

2493
01:52:53,020 --> 01:52:54,020
What did you want again?

2494
01:52:57,031 --> 01:52:57,530
Paper.

2495
01:53:06,626 --> 01:53:09,061
I know-- no, I don't actually.

2496
01:53:12,480 --> 01:53:14,056
Oh, I guess I do know something.

2497
01:53:14,056 --> 01:53:14,556
Ah ha!

2498
01:53:17,544 --> 01:53:22,524
[LAUGHTER]

2499
01:54:03,229 --> 01:54:04,854
I guess I need to go
in the houses now.

2500
01:54:04,854 --> 01:54:05,520
That's my guess.

2501
01:54:08,836 --> 01:54:09,336
Oh, cool.

2502
01:54:24,820 --> 01:54:27,676
You-- I better boil that.

2503
01:54:27,676 --> 01:54:30,172
RACHEL WANG: You might want
to start the game first.

2504
01:54:30,172 --> 01:54:31,710
AUDIENCE: Oh, start the game.

2505
01:54:31,710 --> 01:54:32,710
I'll do that first.

2506
01:54:36,495 --> 01:54:37,245
I like this water.

2507
01:54:37,245 --> 01:54:38,055
This is great.

2508
01:54:42,020 --> 01:54:44,540
I just know that the well is
good, because I was just there.

2509
01:54:51,982 --> 01:54:54,065
Pump and clear, well, rust
was the problem before,

2510
01:54:54,065 --> 01:55:01,434
so where am I getting this
hot water from the pump?

2511
01:55:06,210 --> 01:55:06,860
Discolored.

2512
01:55:06,860 --> 01:55:07,400
Discolored.

2513
01:55:07,400 --> 01:55:10,110
Well, I am going to
be safe, because I

2514
01:55:10,110 --> 01:55:11,360
don't have to gather firewood.

2515
01:55:31,160 --> 01:55:32,645
I'm running out of firewood.

2516
01:55:32,645 --> 01:55:34,145
Now I'm going to
be in trouble here.

2517
01:55:45,954 --> 01:55:46,620
We'll go for it.

2518
01:55:50,074 --> 01:55:51,740
It's from the pump,
how bad could it be?

2519
01:55:51,740 --> 01:55:55,184
[LAUGHTER]

2520
01:55:55,184 --> 01:55:56,660
AUDIENCE: Is this
the rusty pump?

2521
01:55:56,660 --> 01:55:58,140
[LAUGHTER]

2522
01:55:58,140 --> 01:55:59,570
AUDIENCE: Oh, right.

2523
01:55:59,570 --> 01:56:00,890
That's the bad stuff.

2524
01:56:00,890 --> 01:56:02,120
The well's the good stuff.

2525
01:56:05,530 --> 01:56:06,842
Oh, that's [INAUDIBLE] pump.

2526
01:56:06,842 --> 01:56:07,568
Ah, whatever.

2527
01:56:07,568 --> 01:56:09,359
AUDIENCE: It is the
cholera that you've got

2528
01:56:09,359 --> 01:56:10,525
to test in this game, right?

2529
01:56:14,400 --> 01:56:17,120
AUDIENCE: Hm, I only
have three firewood.

2530
01:56:17,120 --> 01:56:17,920
Let's just do this.

2531
01:56:17,920 --> 01:56:20,160
One of the next one
will be clear, I'm sure.

2532
01:56:20,160 --> 01:56:20,981
Well and clear.

2533
01:56:20,981 --> 01:56:21,480
There we go.

2534
01:56:21,480 --> 01:56:22,771
We'll boil the rest to be safe.

2535
01:56:28,020 --> 01:56:28,520
All right.

2536
01:56:37,398 --> 01:56:39,511
Throwing up and have
diarrhea and very thirsty.

2537
01:56:39,511 --> 01:56:40,010
Oh.

2538
01:56:45,600 --> 01:56:47,800
So in other words,
you've seen the monster.

2539
01:56:54,160 --> 01:56:56,050
You should go see the
doctor, because you

2540
01:56:56,050 --> 01:56:57,049
have all those symptoms.

2541
01:56:59,755 --> 01:57:00,255
All right.

2542
01:57:00,255 --> 01:57:01,836
Where are my check marks?

2543
01:57:01,836 --> 01:57:02,960
Oh, look I got three clues.

2544
01:57:02,960 --> 01:57:04,769
Is that good enough?

2545
01:57:04,769 --> 01:57:05,685
Let's go out to mayor.

2546
01:57:08,866 --> 01:57:11,490
I don't have any more spaces for
clues, it must be good enough.

2547
01:57:16,450 --> 01:57:16,950
Nope.

2548
01:57:55,716 --> 01:57:58,698
LIZ RITA: [INAUDIBLE]

2549
01:57:58,698 --> 01:58:03,668
[LAUGHTER]

2550
01:58:12,042 --> 01:58:12,625
AUDIENCE: Yay!

2551
01:58:15,572 --> 01:58:17,280
LIZ RITA: I just jumped
over that office.

2552
01:58:26,863 --> 01:58:28,988
AUDIENCE: I guess the
repetition's not a bad thing,

2553
01:58:28,988 --> 01:58:30,480
is it, for your demographic?

2554
01:58:30,480 --> 01:58:30,980
That's good.

2555
01:58:40,442 --> 01:58:43,928
[LAUGHTER]

2556
01:58:43,928 --> 01:58:44,922
PROFESSOR 1: That's it.

2557
01:58:44,922 --> 01:58:45,422
Thank you.

2558
01:58:54,215 --> 01:58:56,340
RACHEL WANG: I think that's
it, that's all we have.

2559
01:58:56,340 --> 01:58:57,840
Are there any last questions?

2560
01:58:57,840 --> 01:59:00,840
PROFESSOR 2: I actually do have
one question about the music.

2561
01:59:00,840 --> 01:59:02,840
Because you have
it on the credits.

2562
01:59:02,840 --> 01:59:05,694
Is this like a piece that
the person wrote for you?

2563
01:59:05,694 --> 01:59:08,110
Or is this something that you
downloaded from the website?

2564
01:59:08,110 --> 01:59:10,090
RACHEL WANG: We downloaded it.

2565
01:59:10,090 --> 01:59:12,707
PROFESSOR 2: You might just
want to check their website

2566
01:59:12,707 --> 01:59:15,040
to see exactly how they want
to be credited. [INAUDIBLE]

2567
01:59:15,040 --> 01:59:17,515
title of the song they want
used, or something like that.

2568
01:59:17,515 --> 01:59:20,980
But if you've already
done that, that's good.

2569
01:59:20,980 --> 01:59:22,460
PROFESSOR 1: Great.

2570
01:59:22,460 --> 01:59:22,960
Thank you.

2571
01:59:22,960 --> 01:59:23,950
RACHEL WANG: Thank you.

2572
01:59:23,950 --> 01:59:27,415
[APPLAUSE]

2573
01:59:27,415 --> 01:59:28,430
PROFESSOR 1: All right.

2574
01:59:28,430 --> 01:59:29,365
We're done!

2575
01:59:29,365 --> 01:59:30,115
Thank you so much.

2576
01:59:30,115 --> 01:59:36,252
[APPLAUSE]

2577
01:59:36,252 --> 01:59:38,290
We really enjoy teaching
this class every year.

2578
01:59:38,290 --> 01:59:41,395
We really hope you got a
good experience for it.

2579
01:59:41,395 --> 01:59:43,145
I liked seeing a lot
of the presentations,

2580
01:59:43,145 --> 01:59:46,630
and I liked the changes that we
saw from rehearsals to today.

2581
01:59:46,630 --> 01:59:49,610
So there was a lot of really
good information in there,

2582
01:59:49,610 --> 01:59:54,180
both in the games and
in the presentations.

2583
01:59:54,180 --> 01:59:57,150
Again, if you have any
questions about future classes--

2584
01:59:57,150 --> 01:59:59,650
we don't actually offer a
game design degree at MIT,

2585
01:59:59,650 --> 02:00:02,150
but we do have a concentration
of comparative media studies.

2586
02:00:02,150 --> 02:00:04,540
If you take any
four CMS classes,

2587
02:00:04,540 --> 02:00:05,850
you get a concentration.

2588
02:00:05,850 --> 02:00:08,590
It can be from this list here.

2589
02:00:08,590 --> 02:00:10,780
There's information on your
desks about other things

2590
02:00:10,780 --> 02:00:12,547
you can do with games at MIT.

2591
02:00:12,547 --> 02:00:14,880
Course six students, if you're
interested in doing UAPs,

2592
02:00:14,880 --> 02:00:16,500
if you haven't
thought about that,

2593
02:00:16,500 --> 02:00:18,930
start thinking about that now.

2594
02:00:18,930 --> 02:00:20,950
We could help with
mentoring and advising

2595
02:00:20,950 --> 02:00:23,940
on UAP projects and
other kinds of research.

2596
02:00:23,940 --> 02:00:26,320
And I'd like to give a
thanks to the instructors,

2597
02:00:26,320 --> 02:00:29,285
Phillip, Sara, Andrew,
for all your help

2598
02:00:29,285 --> 02:00:30,660
with running the
class this year.

2599
02:00:30,660 --> 02:00:31,560
So, thanks again.

2600
02:00:31,560 --> 02:00:32,518
AUDIENCE: Thanks, Rick.

2601
02:00:32,518 --> 02:00:33,710
[APPLAUSE]