Hellooo I’m Wes, one of the documenters for the
second week of Art 146 Game Experiment.
For this second week of Art 146, I’ll be documenting along with fellow
documenter Karla of the activities that we of the students of Art 146 have been
doing.
After going through the first week
of getting the feel of how games are made and the possibilities of adding
values to the game mechanics, we were given a task to come up with game
ideas. How we do this? We went over several ideas with professor
Heather. Some of the ideas were to let
our minds wonder around and open ourselves to random thoughts, bounce ideas off
each other, and the classic think in the shower!
We also did an interesting exercise
where we try to identify what a saw is.
Not just by its technical definition and what it does. But also what is has been used in and what it
reminds of , such as a popular culture reference in the movie Texas Chainsaw
Massacre, murder mystery, and so on.
I wish I could post some pictures, but my partner Karla, beat me to the punch there. Don't want to post redundant images, that you readers have already seen. If you haven't have a look at Karla's post as well. Now back to the news.
After
going through several methods of possible ways to come up with game ideas, we
then proceed to do an activity call the Game Walk! What is Game Walk? It is a
relaxing activity where an individual walks around by yourself and let the
world give you ideas as you let your mind wonder around.
Personally after, I wrote done quite
a list of ideas into my handy notebook to store my ideas and random thoughts
that went through my head. There was so
much that went through my head, it was a bit hard to think of which idea to use
for a game idea.
After everyone going through the
Game Walk we came back together and formed teams to try to come up with a game
idea from our ideas we had gathered. There
are four teams that were formed and all of us used the brainstorming exercise
to develop our ideas. My group did have
an interesting idea with scavenger hunt and construction, but the idea needs
more work. Based on my observation of
other groups, one group seem to be doing an interesting idea involving several
people misguiding a persona blind folded.
My group was struggling a bit with ideas, since there were not much constraints on what games ideas we can come up with. But I think my group will be able to pull off something in the next couple days.
That is all for my entry.
That is all for my entry.
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