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Game Ideas – Lauren Yunk

In your opinion, what should every game have? Why do you like your favorite game?

In my opinion, I feel as though every game should have a way you could personalize it to make it yours. For example, being able to make your own character, home, colors, designs, etc. Being able to add your own interests will allow you to be more drawn to the game. If I am playing a game and I don’t enjoy the characters available to play as, I feel like Id be less engaged because I cant relate to them. Being able to relate to the game allows for a sense of familiarity and comfort which humans are drawn towards.

List the games you’ve played and currently play.

sims 4, hayday, wii sports, wii sports resort, mario kart, minecraft

Can you apply the three act structure to your favorite game? What is its pacing and how long do you find yourself in each act?

Id say that I couldn’t apply the three act structure to my favorite game because its not like there is an end to the game you just keep playing until you don’t want to play anymore. There’s no say to when the middle of the game is either because it is never ending.

When coming up with ideas where do you find you start, with the metaphor or the mechanic?

I tend to focus on the mechanics before the metaphor because I’d rather build the basics first.

Over the course of this semester, who would you like to collaborate with and why?

I would like to collaborate with Will Wright because I enjoy playing the sims games and I think it is a really cool concept where we are able to escape from reality and create our own world.

5 Campus game ideas

relay race from Wheatley to Nicholson

who can make the biggest snowball

hide and seek in Wheatley

who can find patty first

freeze tag

Fluxx Questions

Was it fun?

Honestly no, I feel the game takes too long and I lost interest because of the constant changing of the goals and the rules.

What was the interaction?

The interaction was on the keeper cards. Some of the keeper cards allowed you to steal another players keeper card, gain more keeper cards, or have to get rid of a keeper card.

How long did it take to learn?

It took probably the length of the whole game to learn because the rules are always changing and you have to constantly read every card because you might have to do more than just take your turn.

Would you play again?

No. I am not a fan of the game.

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Light Projection

For this project I decided to create an underwater animation. This animation is of a dolphin showing its tricks and of a jellyfish swimming up to the surface. The project was first made in illustrator and then was imported into adobe animate to animate it. In the next project, If I could change anything I would have added more to the background so that it wasn’t just the seaweed, the sand, and the water. Some aspects I will use on future projects would definitely be the programs I used to create the animation.

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Guess That Word!

Time limit: 2 minutes per round
# of Players: 4 – any even number of players
If you pass – 2 points
If you say an illegal word – 4 points
How To Play: How will you make your partner Guess That Word? You have 2 minutes to guess the word written on the top of your chosen card. There are five different topics to choose from, and once you pick a topic, you must stick with that topic for the whole turn. Once your turn comes up again, you may pick a different topic for your turn. On the card are three illegal words that cannot be said to Guess That Word. For example, if your word was baseball, you cannot say bat, field, or home base. You also cannot say any part of the word baseball to have your partner Guess That Word. You cannot rhyme the word with any other word, either. You could say, “This sport is a major league sport,” “You can swing to get a home run,” or “There is a catcher position.” There is no penalty for wrong guesses. As you attempt to have your partner Guess That Word, someone from the other team will watch over your shoulder to ensure you aren’t saying the three illegal words on the card. If you say one of them, the opponent will say “word,” and their team will receive 4 points because you said one of the illegal words and can steal the rest of their turn and attempt to guess the word on that card. For example, If the word was “cat” and you weren’t allowed to say the word “meow” but you did, the opponent would say “word” and then take the card from you and have their partner attempt to Guess That Word. If you can make your partner Guess That Word, you will receive 4 points for every word guessed correctly within the 2-minute time limit. If you think you or your partner will struggle to guess the word on the top of the card, you may pass your turn to the other team. However, the other team will receive 2 points every time you pass a card. The first team to make it to 70 points wins Guess That Word.