Week 2 Prac A

In today's prac, tutor talked a little bit about overview of the course and the assessments we will be doing through this semester. Then we discussed the particular features that different games have. The first task that we were asked to do was to choose 2 games in each column and list the features in a group of 3.

And we chose Dots & Boxes and Hangman in pencil & paper column, Operation and Snakes & Ladders in board games column and Pacman and Snake in the last column.

Pencil & Paper games

Dots & Boxes:

• multiple players
• has to play in a grid
• competitive
• only draw horizontal and vertical lines
• take turns
• 2 players

Hangman:

• guessing individual letter
• chances (lifes)
• 2 different roles (one who draw the man and others guessing)
• flexible in difficulty
• 2+ players

Board games

Operation:

• develop hand eye coordination and motor skills
• take turns
• educational (the organs)
• sound effects (add excitement)
• 2+ players

Snakes & Ladders:

• dice game
• race
• take turns
• snake (going backward) ladder (forward)
• 2+ players

Arcade games

Pacman:

• collect points
• avoid the ghost / chase by ghost
• maze
• 3 lifes
• 1 player

Snake:

• the better game performance, the hard it gets
• collect points
• use up down left right to control the snake
• 1 player

After that, in a group of three we came up with an idea of a game that has the combination features of two games. We mashed up with Dots & Boxes and Snakes & Ladders. We basically used the dice from Snakes & Ladders and most of the other features from Dots and Boxes. Each player has to throw a dice. If the number is odd, they can only draw vertical lines. If it's even, they can draw horizontal lines. And the number determines how many lines they are allow to draw at a time.

The final task were to think about a situation in real life that makes people feel embarrassing and how to make it more embarrassing. There were few ideas that we came up with.

Situations:

• when people say "enjoy the meal" and you say "you too" -> buy them a meal
• when you wave to someone and they just turn around -> hug them in silent for 30 seconds
• when your phone rang in a very quite place like library, during lecture -> take the phone call with speaker

From this prac, I have a vague idea of what i want to do for the assessments. I probably will chose game mash up and the features that we discussed in class were very useful because i will be using them to mush up a unique, creative and new game.