Tour to EAE and more play testing, playing game

Listening to tutorial in lab

It is another fun mobile-game-summer-camp day. In the morning, we had lab time where all the kids continue working on their game. Then in the evening, after lunch, we head to EAE north lab. Roger gave us an awesome presentation. The kids got the play Erie, the game published by c1 and play testing latest NEF game. We, the Vinyl team, also got some kids to play test our game - the very first 'random' people we got to play test our game!

Roger gave us an awesome presentation on game

The kids did enjoyed Roger presentation about games. Of course, we invited the kids to the lab not only to listen to Roger. We also let them see the treadport game and introduced them to the EAE program, where we made game. We divided the kids into 4 groups. While 2 groups were going to treadport, another group play test the PE game and the other group wandering around in our lab to play games. I asked some idle kids to try our Vinyl, the audio game, as well as the latest NEF game. I also got Cade, the kid who interested in programming and is good at it, talking with Cody. I was glad that Cade found the chatting with Cody was really useful. Cody also told me it was interesting to talk with this kid. When I told Amy about how good he was, Amy was also impressed. Way to go Cade!

In summary, it was really a fruitful day not only for them but also to us (especially me, maybe). I got both of the games I am working on play tested!

I was really happy to learn the kids who play tested Vinyl love the game. They also gave us some useful feedback. Too bad I couldn't be around them when they were playing it. I need to walk around to make sure all the kids were enjoying themselves and got taken care of. I was also happy learning they see the improvement of the NEF game and one of them liked it better than the one they playtested on Tuesday. Good job to me! =D

Oh, I forgot to mention. I unintentionally made a bug on the surprise "Game Over" screen that Darrell, one of the kid, found it. This bug caused the game to crash. After he found the bug, he kept trying to make the game crash. He seemed to enjoy crashing the game. Maybe we should make a game where you win if you can make the game crash. XD

Get to play test Vinyl

And play test PE game