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This week we had our first meeting with the two artists Laura and Ana, who joined us for the game. We decided to make the perspective isometric and 2D. They probably will start to work on the game characters and a first version of the game level. We granted them access to our dropbox assets folder, and i tried to arrange to get the build folder in dropbox as well. So everytime i build the project, the latest build will get updated in the dropbox automatically, so the artists can always play the latest prototype without being forced to perform a build on their machines. I reworked the Game Concept and Motivation sections in our document, and extended two of the scenarios. In the lab we discussed the co-design workshop. Probably we will do the card sorting and zen voting activities.

Philipp

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