Silent Grove Public Testing Day

“Take a journey on your phone through a mysterious, ominous world as a defenceless but brave paper plane. 

You need to glide and spin your way through strange, shadowy creatures to delve deep into the thicket of this forsaken forest.”

What a crazy and fulfilling day!

Spent the afternoon at River City Labs with Right Pedal Studios and testers of all ages trying out our game “Silent Grove” for the very first time. 

Much pizza was eaten.

Spent most of the time handing around the iPads, gauging reactions through observational testing at first then asked a series of questions about the aesthetic, gameplay and overall feel then got players to draw monsters they thought should be in the game.

Lots of feedback and plenty of work to do in the coming weeks, can’t wait for the next session! The team did so well and everyone got involved in the testing process, questioning players, seeing their reactions and having players draw their own monsters for the game! 

Today we visited River City Labs to present to John Passfield from Right Pedal Studios our experimental game, BlindFaith.

Deb Polson and Vidhi Shah summarised the game and gave John the background of how this narrative game came to fruition. Then the teams hard work was shown off by showing John the intro video created by CL Pahlke and some of the game play put together by Ryan, CL, Mara and Stewart.

John was impressed by the high quality and progress made over the 6 weeks the team had been working on it together and we got some great advice on how to progress over the next 6 weeks. Updates to come!

Here is the brief we gave John as an overview of the game, content collaboratively created by myself, Deb Polson and Vidhi Shah, images created by CL Pahlke and Mara Ingham.

Putting all the assets together and touching up on our last meet up before our presentation on Friday (29/08/14)! Presenting to the great people at Right Pedal Studios and getting some feedback on BlindFaith. It's looking great so far! So much hard work paying off and it's already halfway through the semester. 

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