Week 7

Lecture:

The lecture for this week talked about how to design questions for testing prototypes. Techniques depending on the type of response being gathered:

• Qualitative
• Deals with descriptions - can be observed but not measured.
• Understand underlying reasons.
• Unstructured or semi-structured techniques.
• Quantitative
• Deals with numbers - measure incidence.
• Structured techniques.

In general, questions should:

• Be clear & specific
• Pay attention to ordering
• Give clear instructions on how to answer

We were then asked to answer these questions regarding our video prototype testing:

• Revisit your user-testing questions from the video prototype. Or consider the ones for your next testing round.
• Which are quantitative & which are qualitative?
• Can you suggest a better name for this game?
• qualitative
• How can the controller be improved?
• qualitative
• Is the hangman feature on the side too much for the game?
• quantitative
• What features can be improved and how?
• qualitative
• Would you play this game?
• quantitative
• How interesting is this concept?
• quantitative

Update with PacMania

This week is when I started implementing my game as it is due on week 8. My aim for the first interactive prototype is to have a working maze, a moving player and having letters for the player to pick up. For prac A, I managed to get my maze working, having a monster floating around (not functional yet) and a player who can move (up, down, left and right). For Prac B, I managed to get the player to restart once the monster bumps into the player