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Ideas for a Text-Based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game

Ideas 

  • Saying goodbye during a long distance relationship. Have scenes that are fun and light-heartened and then there is just an emptiness 
  • Having a relationship but you are having anxiety but you can’t always talk; you need someone to talk to but you just feel so alone despite being in a committed relationship 

Daily anxieties | (Title: Rabbit Holes??)

Excuse the word vomit. I’m likely going with this idea and I’m going to use these concepts. The game is supposed to feel sporadic and chaotic, imitating how overwhelming it can feel to have some of these thoughts and not being able to suppress them. This chaos of this list imitates how I want the game to feel lol

  • Checking someone’s location. Not knowing where they are. Assuming they’re dead
    • Check facebook to see if there was a car crash. Check their friends’ locations. Check their families facebooks.
  • Someone hasn’t responded in a while
    • They hate me 
    • Or they died and I don’t know it 
  • What if my grandma died and I just don’t know it because I have been so busy lately? It wouldn’t be the first time it happened
  • What if my boyfriend secretly hates me
    • He doesn’t want kids but maybe it’s just because he doesn’t want kids with ME and he thinks I would be a bad mother. It would be a different story if he was with someone else 
    • What if I have been tricked this whole time and he has a whole different life with a whole other person
  • Driving
    • Road is closed
    • What if I accidentally hit someone
      • What if I hit someone and I don’t even know about it 
    • What if I’m driving down the wrong side of the road 
    • Thinking about if I am supposed to be in class right now? Have I forgotten about class the whole semester and didn’t realize it until now
      • I’m going to fail if so 
    • Feeling like I am going run into the guard rails and walls 
    • Seeing roadkill
      • Trying not to run it over 
      • Close your eyes 
    • What happens if I get pulled over?
      • Idk what to do 
      • Do I run away 
    • Hitting a pothole
    • What do I do if there is an ambulance coming down the road??
    • What happens if a trail derails right now 
    • What happens if I get stuck on the train tracks, what do I do?
    • What do I do if I witness an accident?
  • School
    • What if my professors hate me and I’m gonna fail
      • I’m probably failing right now
      • They haven’t emailed me back do they think I’m stupid or hate me 
      • I’m I even going to be able to finish this assignment
      • What if i don’t graduate on time 
    • What if there is no parking when I get to Wheatley?
      • I’ll have to go back home 
      • I’m gonna miss class
    • What if I choke
      • I’ll die and People are going to make fun of me, that’s so embarrassing. 
      • Someone is going to rescue me and that is even more embarrassing. I’ll have to live with that for the rest of my life.
    • What if I forgot to put deodorant on 
    • What if I forgot to unplug my straightener 
    • What if my plants are dying because my air conditioning got way too cold 
    • What if I forgot to brush my hair and the back of my head looks like a tangled rats nest 
    • What if someone parked me in at school and I can’t get out 
    • What if I left my creamer out on the counter and it’s gonna get all smelly and I’m gonna have to through it all away 
    • What if the CAs decide to do a surprise room check and my room and they are going to kick me out because it’s so messy
    • What if I smell bad and no one wants to tell me?
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playtest notes for Hear Me

  1. What was the most frustrating moment or aspect of what you just played? nothing was frustrating, the concept was executed very well and the coding worked as intended to.
  2. What was your favorite moment or aspect of what you just played? i realy enjoyed listening to the music, getting to see what he picked for each emotion made alot of sence.
  3. Was there anything you wanted to do that you couldn’t? sometimes how your feeling doesn’t fit perfectly with the simple happy sad anxious. it would be nice to help identify your emotions.
  4. If you had a magic wand to wave, and you could change, add, or remove anything from the experience, what would it be? if i had a magic wand i would make an option of other, sometimes people don’t know what emotion they are feeling so maybe their should be an option where you listen to a playlist of songs that match different emotions and you can sit and listen and tap a button if that song matches or doesn’t match what you are feeling and the game will help you to identify what you are feeling.
  5. What should be improved with the next version?  nothing specific.
  6. What was the game’s message? music can help with emotions.
  7. Describe the game in 3 words: music, help, feeling
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Dome Projection Trials – Maria

For my project, I chose to project various footage of cells and organisms observed through the lens of a microscope. The goal of this experiment was to be immersive, and test how some of life’s smallest structures could be displayed on a large scale.

First, I took all of my images and placed them over a black background via Instagram stories. This allowed me to quickly, and easily, crop the top layer image (through the microscope) into a perfect circle. I saved my creations back to my camera roll. Since I could not follow this same process for other forms of media, I used Adobe Premiere Pro to create a circular black mask around my video content. I then uploaded all of the media into iMovie so that I could arrange my content, add transitions, and adjust play speed. Since iMovie formatted everything onto a black rectangle, I utilized Adobe After Effects to crop my final into a square the size of my circular content and export as seen above. This would allow the footage to be compatible with RMU’s dome projector.

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Harding – Game Rules

Pokemon 4D Studio Version

Use 40 cards in a deck.

Flip a coin to see who goes first.

Whoever goes first cannot attack during their first turn.

Draw 4 cards and place them facedown in front of your deck. These would be considered your prize cards. When you knock out your opponent’s Pokémon, draw a prize card. When you draw all 4 before your opponent does, you win. You also win if your opponent has no remaining pokemon on the field.

The game continues even if a player’s deck runs out of cards.

Both players draw 7 cards at the beginning of the game. If you don’t have at least 1 pokemon in your hand to play on the playing field, shuffle your hand into your deck and draw 7 new cards. Repeat until you are able to play at least 1 pokemon.

*Optional (You also have the option to reshuffle if you only have 1 pokemon in your hand and do not wish to play it down.)

Each player draws one card at the beginning of their turn.

Each player can only have one attacking Pokémon and a maximum of five on the bench.

Each player can play as many Pokémon on their bench up to the 5-bench maximum.

For this game, disregard the energy costs and effects such as burned, poisoned, paralyzed and asleep.

Each player can only attack once per turn and if the damage counters total or exceeds the HP of the Pokémon, the Pokémon would be knocked out and placed in the discard pile.

Trainer cards can only be played during the player’s turn. And a player can play as many as they have in their hand. Once played, the trainer card is discarded.

Stadium cards are placed on the field separately and any player can replace them with another stadium card.

Pokémon powers can only be used once per game per Pokémon.

Evolution cards are placed on top of the pokemon they correspond with (the card will say “evolves from X”)

During attacking, choose the attack and if the attack does damage place the damage counters on the defending Pokémon and the other appropriate Pokémon if applicable. Once you attacked, your turn is over.

You can have an unlimited number of cards in your hand.

You are allowed to retreat your attacking pokemon and switch it with one of your benched pokemon, this is allowed only once during your turn. And this is done before your attack.

Play Test Notes

I feel that the experience the other student had with this version of the game seemed more technical than the other games within the classroom. The trainer cards had a wide range of impact and can change the experience of the gameplay very quickly. Some students picked up on the rules more quickly than others.

This version of the game seem to have had a positive engagement for the students that tested this game.

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Week 2 Question Set

  • what advergames have you played? did they influence a purchase?
  • Skate 3 may be a far reach, but for those who don’t know it is one of the largest and most popular skate games ever made. It can be considered and advergame though due to the large amount of brands incorporated into the game. You can wear Vans, Converse, Nike, etc. This did influence me into buying a specific skateboard I had in the game.
  • why do the advergames tooth protector and escape work? What makes chase the chuckwagon and shark bait fail?
  • Tooth protector works since it makes learning about dental hygiene fun. Escape is fun because it gives a sense of adventure and urgency, keeping you playing. Chase and Shark Bait fail due to possible lack of engagement, if the product placement or gimmicks of the game are too obvious is can shy players away.
  • what does volvo’s drive for life accomplish? 
  • They incorporated their safety features into the gameplay narrative, and by doing so it positions itself as a leader in safety for their cars. It also implants into your head that you like Volvos due to the game which can cause you to lean towards one in your next car purchase without even realizing.
  • what company used in-advergame advertising 
  • In the case of Skate 3 which is the game I played, there was plenty of advertising for Dr. Pepper as well as Miracle Whip. In the game, you can even play as a Dr. Pepper can as part of a promotion closer to the games release.
  • what was one if the first home-console advergames and what beverage was it for? 
  • Kool-Aid Man on the Atari was very early, with Pepsi Man later coming to the Playstation.
  • what makes the toilet training game sophisticated and do you agree?
  •  Ian Boogost argues that the toilet training game is sophisticated because of its ability to portray drunkenness by having to relieve yourself. The game directly relates to the product by incorporating the “solution” as the product.
  • what do advergames and anti-advergames have in common, and what principles do they share?
  • They are both trying to convince you of something. But, advergames are meant to be in favor of one thing and anti-advergames are the opposite. But at the end of the day, they are both promoting a product, and there is no such thing as bad publicity.