Category Archives: Educational Game

Without play testing, the structure of the interest curve is hard to determine. We have tho opening animation which explains the plot and gets the player familiar with the story. After the player volunteers to go into their own mind … Continue reading →

Our game has very fundamental and simple implementations of most of the basic components of a good game. Challenge vs. Success is inherent in a fps. The challenge is shooting the targets, the success is successfully shooting the targets. This … Continue reading →

Our game introduces only a simple implementation of chance, so far. After the player enters the mind of the main character to begin exploring feelings, they have to hunt down manifestations of those feelings. To make this hunt interesting these … Continue reading →

So far you can move the hand in the 4 basic directions with the usual, w, s, a, d, keys. You can also use e, and r to move up and down in the z direction. I added a simple … Continue reading →

Our game will have very few rules. It is being designed as some sort of extra pseudo natural experience. The player stands in front of the Kinect, and then their standing in a party on the screen. This is in … Continue reading →

I am the team Programmer. Though my intentions have always been to focus on the design and production of the Kinect/Blender interface, I have been spending time working on modeling and planning out the story with my other teammates. Our … Continue reading →

Though sluggish, our team is still making progress towards producing our game. We have three current directions being taken to develop our game. The Story – Both Sungwoong and Filiz are developing the story together, while implementing psychological components to … Continue reading →

To explore the actual design and structure of this game we are using Jesse Schell’s book The Art of Game Design. One of the “lenses” he uses to look at games is the lens of the elemental tetrad. There are … Continue reading →

To add a degree of “gameness” to my creation I added a timer. A timer for what? Well what ever you want I guess, I just made up some fun rules in my head… How about to remove all the … Continue reading →

Next was to test the hand model with some physics and see how things interacted. There are 200 blocks with dynamic physics sitting on a static plane. The hand is underneath the plane, and after passing up through the plane … Continue reading →