Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Today, we finalized our ideas that are going to be on each card, so that by next class, we can have our game cards all written out. We decided to change our idea from the first class. Instead of actually writing out the clues on each card, there will just be a description of what the player can say for that amount of points. So, for 1 point, they can give any clue they want. This provides the leisure that if a player doesn't know the movie, song, artist, or actor, they can still receive a point for the card easily. For 3 points, under a movie category, they can ONLY give actors, and for 5 points, they can ONLY give quotes. Actors and quotes WILL NOT be provided, that is where the player is to actually think of what actors and quotes are in the movie and give the clues they wish. So, for example, they can give however many actors they want that are in that movie. For lyrics, the order will go: 1 point: any clue; 3 points, saying lyrics; 5 points, hum the tune. Artists and actors cards will be similar to these layouts.

Our group also discussed what game pieces we were going to order. We searched the internet for spinners, boards, and other pieces that we found to be essential to our game. Also, we discussed what type of game board we are going to use. At first, we wanted to use a circular game board with multiple rings. After collaborating and figuring out what would work best, we found a square game board, with larger inner squares, instead of a circular board. After talking together about how long each turn will take, we decided that we need about 75 cards of each category. We also decided on a rule that if a player guesses the card correctly, they can keep going until the timer is up. By the next class, we hope to have most of our pieces and board, and most of our cards written out.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

First Day

First Day of Work
During our first day of work, we started to generate ideas about how to bring together all of the aspects of the game. Our game is a guessing game, where players team-up to guess movies, songs, singers, and actors. On the back of each card there are clues that have points attached for each clue, the easier the clues, the less points your team will receive. We drew out an example board that is in the shape of a circle, where there is an inner circle that players can enter to receive bonus points based on their roll of the die. All of our group members collaborated to come up with different ideas and aspects to insert into the game. Each members idea was heard and we all discussed what we thought was the best choice as to what to put on the back of each of the cards, how to create the board, and what types of clues would be easy, medium, and hard. Overall, we accomplished the basic features of the game and started discussing possible movies, actors, singers, and songs to put on the cards.