Week 2

Last week in class me and the other members in my group tried to come up with a fun but simple game. When we were doing this we tried to come up with a game that met all of the project design requirements that you wanted us to meet for this project. Those requirements were to promote fun, be easy to learn, strive to be inclusive, and for new players to be able to easily join a game in progress. The first thing we did when we got started was look at DeepFun.com for some examples of games to give us an idea about what we might do. We checked out a couple of different games and some were really interesting while others not so much. Eventually we decided that we might be better off trying to come up with something ourselves. To help give us a starting point we decided to use the objects in class that were made available to us. Now that we knew some of the pieces that we would try to incorporate into our game we could come up with ideas easier because our starting point wasn’t so broad. Then we just started throwing ideas out and seeing which ones made some sense. We did that and eventually decided a good idea for our game would be to incorporate throwing plastic rings onto the cones. Once we came up with that things got a lot easier and we started to try and form some rules for the game. A couple different ideas were thrown out such as do we want it to be a point based game or race to the finish kind of game. Since we were striving to be inclusive we figured a race would be more forgiving then keeping points for individuals or teams for each shot. We also thought that a race is a lot more fun and has more tension and pressure then taking turns because you’re in a hurry. Another thing that we had discussed was somehow including throwing a bean bag on the bottom side of the cone that has a hole the perfect size for a bean bag. We wanted to somehow include that and we wanted to do in it in a similar fashion to cup pong’s redemption shot. That way if your down really big or your fixing to lose you get an extra chance at redemption. Just like redemption in cup pong the shot would be more difficult then your typical shot in this game making it fair if you do make it. We never did figure out exactly how we were going to do it but we definitely wanted something that makes it more important then all the other shots. We got a lot of the game figured out but there is definitely some more we need to add onto it. We also don’t have a name for this game yet either which we need to do. Besides that though I like what we have so far and I think it will be one of the more fun games in the class.