Precedents

System Inspiration:

Dragonwood

Game Precedent:

Jenga

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Project Statement

؜Bait tokens are used in the Ocean Board to "catch" fish with a certain

value. When the cards run out, (over fishing) the player with the most points wins.

Sketch Exploration

Prototypes

؜Prototype Front: The Ocean Board is based off of the game Plinko. It's made out of cardboard.

؜Prototype Cards: Ideas for different varieties of cards. Made out of chipboard.

Game Elements & Rules

؜Fish cards are part of your personal deck. You can fish for more fish cards with bait chips. Net tokens are used to "catch" bait chips. Fish cards can be used to buy bait chips. There's two actions per turn, every action counts as part of your turn. You can sell as many fish as you want and it still counts as a single action. When there are no fish cards left, everyone must count up all the points on the cards in front of them. whoever has the most points wins.

Game

Loop

Final Photos

Game Testing

1) The game is easy to learn.

2) It's very fast paced game even with many people.

3) People like gambling with tokens.

Observations

Final Video or Gif

Precedents

System Inspiration:

J-walking

Game Precedent:

Pucket

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Project Thesis

؜Our goal with this project was to show the potential dangers of J-walking illegally, as well as educating the youth about road saftey.

Sketch Exploration

Prototypes

؜Prototype 1: Main stage

؜Prototype 1.5: Street

Game Testing

1) The game was suprisingly fun to play, and seemed easy to pick up.

2) It was suprisingly active, commonly switching between cardplay and carplay.

3) We need more / clearer rules on card play.

4) A catch or easyer way to launch cars, (their a little finiky at the moment.)

Observations

Game Elements & Rules

-You need a pair of cards to play except interstate

-A pair of one type of car card is needed E.G. two supercar

-Cards would be placed down if the pedestrian player has any defense cards they would put them down and the player that put down the pair would grab the (ex:) supercar gamepieces and launch them at the defender

Core Game Loop

Final Photos

Final Video or Gif

Precedents

System Inspiration:

Pollination

Game Precedent:

Sorry

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Project Statement

Nectar Royale is a board game where you play as a bee and collect nectar from the middle to bring it back to your hive. We looked into bee's behavior and the pollination process while putting our own fantasy spin onto the project.

Sketch Exploration

Prototypes

؜The early board design.

؜Old versions of the players/bees and nectar

Core Game Loop

Final Photos

Game Elements & Rules

؜In Nectar Royale, you must collect nectar and fight other players using cards and die. This is a strategic game that requires critical thinking from each player. There are board spaces, like a traditional board game, but also a battle aspect with attack and status cards for dueling. To win, get all 6 pieces of nectar.

Final Photos

Game Testing

؜It's a bit unbalanced in terms of strategy, since once the player dies, they lose everything. That doesn't quite make sense, because the nectar has already been collected and wouldn't realistically be lost upon dying. The cards also need some revision, as some were too overpowered and many were unfair to the opponent.

Observations

1. Judge rotates each round (player takes the role of judge).
2. Judge draws a green apple card (adjective) and reads it aloud.
3. All other players choose a red apple card (noun) from their hand that best matches or humorously fits the green card, and play it face down.
4. Judge shuffles and reads red cards, then picks their favorite (based on logic or humor).
5. Winning player gets the green card as a point.
6. Repeat until a player reaches the point goal (e.g., 4–8 green cards).

HOW TO PLAY:

Precedents

System Inspiration:

Search and Rescue

Game Precedent:

Ravine

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Project Statement

؜Lost is a game where both teams are trying to find their lost person before the other. It takes 10 to 30 minutes to play. Lost takes place on November 11, 1918, in Russia. In order to find your lost person, you have to get gear to travel through different areas. First to three rounds wins.

Sketch Exploration

Prototypes

؜Prototype 1: This is our cardboard prototype with foam mountains and cardboard and chipboard cards.

؜Prototype 2: This is our laser cut cardboard and wood prototypes with 3D printed mountains, forests and paper cards.

Game Testing

1) First, we noticed that it was too hard to find the lost person.

2) We also noticed that we did not have enough cards for gear.

3) Finaly, we noticed that the borders were too confusing.

Observations

Core Game Loop

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Game Elements & Rules

؜First you roll one of the two dice and then you move your peg accordingly. A chunk is a 3x3 box, when you land in a chunk you ask "is my lost person on this chunk" and they tell you either "yes" or "no". If it is a no then they tell you how many chunks you are away from it. Once you find your lost person you win that round, the winner is the person who wins three rounds.

Final Photos

Precedents

System Inspiration:

The Boston T System

Game Precedent:

Ticket to Ride & Villianous

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Project Statement

؜The Way of the Train is our game that focuses on building train lines across the area. we wanted the game to be complicated enough where its interesting to learn, but not so complicated that you quickly become lost. the game ends when you reach 50 points, which can be obtained by building your train line and getting upgrades. This game includes a base map of the board, as well as playable characters, cards, and more.

Sketch Exploration

Prototypes

؜Prototype 1:

This is the board before the coloring and magnets!

؜Prototype 2:

These are some of the lo-fi prototypes of the cards!

Final Video or Gif

Game Testing

1) the game takes forever

2) it doesn't have a score tacker

3)The art is very cool but the game plays a little bit complicated

4) need a symbol key

Observations

Core Game Loop

The definition of gameplay loop we have generally been following is “the repeating cycle of actions a player performs to achieve goals in a game.”

We have many different game elements for our game such as

1. Trane head
2. Bored
3. Upgrade cards
4. Quest cards
5. Player markers
6. Player board
7. train station Bass

We made these parts by using many different fabrication devices such as a laser cutter 3D printer and paper cutter.It was really fun and we are very

proud of all of the game elements that we have.

؜some drawings by Casper Newbury

Game Elements

Final Photos

Project Summary

For this project, we partnered with The Discovery Museum in Acton to redesign an exhibit of theirs. We built an exhibit that helps kids learn about magnets through interactive play and discovery. The exhibit is a magnet game that utilizes colors to teach kids the basics of magnet polarity and how the magnets attract and repel each other. We learned to cater the elements to children with things like ergonomic design for accesability and Wow! factor so the product would align with the Discovery Museum's goals.

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Falling Magnets

• Exhibit goal: teach kids about Lenz’s law
• Play type: Planned discovery
• Design: A circular base with a pole and a cylinder with tubes around it that have magnets on them which you can move up and down
• What works: interactive & repetitive
• What doesn't: Bland/not attractive and the learning goal was hard to understand for all ages not just kids. The action of moving the magnets up and down isn’t complex itself, but the learning goal and getting kids to understand it is very complex.

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Learning Goal

To teach kids the basics of magnets (how they attract and repel)

Design Elements

• Wow! factor
• Hazard-free
• Approachable & Repeatable
• Interactive

Play Type

• Cooperative
• Competitive

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Precedents

Air Hockey

Pinball

Meta Quest 3 Controllers

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Initial Prototype

 Our first prototype was lower fidelity than the other ones we’ve made. The handles were made of cardboard, foam, and hot glue, which we later changed because they made marks on the acrylic. The outside edges were sealed with paper and tape which did the job but was not a clean design choice. The acrylic was held up with foam pads but they were seen from the outside and did not add to the visual design. The obstacles were different shapes cut from thin foam, which didn't make the magnets slow down at all.

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User testing at Discovery Museum

Method of testing

• Notes
• Pictures
• Timing

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What we were testing

• Child and adult engagement
• Game design
• Type of play

• How much do kids engage with the exhibit?
• How do the kids use the handles and do they understand what to do with the exhibit?
• How long do kids stay?
• Do adults interact with it? How?
• What makes kids want to play with the exhibit?
• Do kids understand the magnet component?

Questions for testing

• Timing of test
• Before lunchtime
• Large school group at the start that all left at the same time

• High engagement from children and adults
• Couple groups stayed for 10+ minutes
• Hot glue on handles left a residue on the board
• Older kids figured it out and then tried looking below the table & playing from below

User testing at Discovery Museum

Outcomes

Limitations of testing

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Iteration #1

Testing Prep

• Change handle design
• Higher fidelity frame to enclose the board
• Use stronger magnets
• Change obstacle shape and material

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Iterations after user testing #1:

User testing at NuVu

Method of testing

• Notes
• Interviews
• Videos
• Listening to conversation
• Pictures

Kaia

What we were testing

• Durability
• Game design
• Learning goal

Questions for testing

• How much do kids engage with the exhibit?
• How do the kids use the handles and do they understand what to do with the exhibit?
• How long do kids stay?
• Do adults interact with it? How?
• What makes kids want to play with the exhibit?
• Do kids understand the magnet component?

User testing at NuVu

• The height of the table was too tall for some kids
• 2/3 kids were too young to answer questions/give feedback
• only 3 kids were there to test

• Handles worked well
• 6 y.o. loved the game "This one's my favorite"
• NuVu students/older students were confused about the way the magnets were labeled
• noticed one handle had an unfair advantage
• Magnets stacked on top of each other and got stuck

Outcomes

Limitations of testing

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Storyboard

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Final model

• Bumpers around magnets
• fixed polarity confusion
• Corner protectors to eliminate hazard
• Added a door to the board for easy

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What we changed:

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Coffy

Reflection

• User testing is very useful
• How kids interact with each other and play
• Refined our 3-D modeling skills using rhino
• How to make diagrams
• Project and time management
• client work

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Things we took away from the studio: