{"id":52,"date":"2025-11-16T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/?p=52"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:33:54","slug":"week-6-making-reflection-playable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/2025\/11\/16\/week-6-making-reflection-playable\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 \u2014 Making Reflection Playable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week was our reflection period after the presentation. The presentation allowed me to gather a good amount of feedback from the students. Some specified that game mechanism aint clear enough and lack playability. They hoped for a more interactive kind of detail, as opposed to abstract emotion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first I felt a bit hopeless as I thought that something like reflection would be something that\u2019s just very hard to translate into games. Once I had calmed down, I realized: They were right. The ability to express artistically through a game is not mutually exclusive from gameplay. I began to wonder if I could add some softer interactions to my game, such as watching plants grow, hearing sounds change, or being able to \u201ccollect memories\u201d while walking around. All these designs can create a greater sense of participation for the players without influencing the emotional tone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also identified my Target Audience this week. Gamers who like experiences that are slow and thoughtful in a similar vein to Journey, Eastshade or Ritual of the Moon. I hope they can find that sense of quiet growth in my game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/11\/IMG_1958-1024x703.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/11\/IMG_1958-1024x703.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/11\/IMG_1958-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/11\/IMG_1958-768x527.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/11\/IMG_1958.jpeg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was our reflection period after the presentation. The presentation allowed me to gather a good amount of feedback from the students. Some specified that game mechanism aint clear enough and lack playability. They hoped for a more interactive kind of detail, as opposed to abstract emotion. At first I felt a bit hopeless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jy3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}