The document describes the design process of a final code project meant to have a fun and social content. The initial ideas involved creating emotional statements and interacting with them. The concept evolved to focus on the idea that everyone has a story and struggles with problems. An early prototype involved an interactive city map where individual problems were located. The design uses color coding to visualize people's problems, with red circles representing huge complications. Since the game involves mental activities and issues, the designer implemented brain cells that become more dense for large problems but dissolve and change color as they are solved. Scoring is visualized rather than numerical, with the player's circle of power and self-esteem growing bigger when helping others.
2. introduction
This is my game design built in Processing and meant to have a fun
and social content.
The early ideas were creating emotional statements and interacting
with them.
3. concept
In later stages, the theme started to evolve around a social fact that
everybody has a story, life and each one of us struggle with problems
during the day.
early ideas of creating a city map
where individual problems are
located.
4. concept
I built this social content in an interactive base that you help with
peoples problem circles within the game.
an early
prototype
5. concept
From a metaphorical perspective, I also wanted to use the power of
color coding for these problems where peoples huge and
complicated problems are visualized by red circles.
6. concept
Since I was visualizing the mental activities and problems of people,
I came up with using the idea of brain cells.
For huge problems, the brain cells are more dense however they
start to dissolve and change color when they are being solved inside
the game.
7. scoring
For the scoring part of the game design, rather than numerical
scoring, I preferred using visuals and express the social idea that
While interacting with other peoples problems and trying to solve
them, you begin to evolve as well and feel better, bigger and
stronger.
Therefore I designed an individual circle of power and self-esteem
that gets bigger when you help people.