What a busy week! We had a game testing session and invited tons of girl and boy scouts to play, replay, and basically rip apart our game. I typed up and printed out surveys for people to fill out and passed them out at the testing session.
Observing kids playing our game was exciting. The best part was hearing one little girl rattle on to me about the creative but needlessly complicated game that she was going to make someday with mermaids and princesses and such. Knowing that there are few women in the game industry, it was very cool for me to see the inspiration our game was having on these girl scouts. I couldn't help swelling with pride.
Next, I wrote up my observations from the game testing session in a long, detailed email and sent it out to my teammates. I admit that the number of bugs was overwhelming. It made my head reel and my spirits fall.
Adding to the game testing excitement, our class was featured on the news! A camera crew came in and interviewed a few students, asking about the EAE program and the games our class is making. Alice was the only artist who was interviewed but Leif and I were satisfied with simply being featured in the background while we pretended to work on our computers. I'm just glad that I didn't get caught picking my nose on camera or anything like that :P. Being featured on the news was exhilarating and it helped to mend the punches my self esteem had taken from the bugs at the testing session. It was also great publicity for our game. We're so fortunate that Bob and Roger work so hard to get our class media attention!.
Finally, I found some funny anime girl screams to use for our character when she dies in the game. I even received permission from the voice actor to use them for free without giving credit. The programmers haven't put it in the game yet but hopefully they will soon because I love the new sounds.
See the news story here: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=19427890&title=us-video-game-design-program-ranks-3rd-in-nation&s_cid=queue-5
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