Project Description:
Make a “Serious Game” that deals with a specific aspect of the manufacture and promotion of mobile phone/tablet device culture.
One interesting condition of this project is that all of us have to build this game with no more than 5 colors!
Apr. 15
Idea Generated
As usual, in order to find my inspiration for this project, I went to the http://huaban.com/boards/310091/
(Home page: huaban.com). The interesting condition of this project made me start from building a color palette first. When browsing color palette, I was struck by the beauty in these natural colors. All of a sudden, I realized that I am actually looking into a screen instead of viewing those scenes in reality.
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| The Color Palette that Inspired me. |
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| My Color Palette |
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| Color Palette for Monotonous World |
In modern society, we human beings are sometimes lost in the convenient technology. On the bus, most passengers are playing with their phones, busy with playing mobile games, refreshing social network, reading news, etc. We often miss the scenery we are passing through. As a result, my idea for this project was born:
"Sitting in a bus, you are playing with your cellphone. The world seems monotonous and dull. Without looking up, all you focus on is the small screen in your hands. After playing several games, updating social networking, reading some news, checking messages and emails...., you are tired of all those flooding new notifications and messages. Suddenly, a pedal with color fells on your screen. Then your view finally leaves the screen and find out the beautiful and colorful scene outside the window..."
Different from previous game project, this time I am working from a subtle experience rather than the game mechanics. Based on the experience I want to convey to players, I have an initial game mechanics in mind.
Updated Apr. 30th:
Some artwork:
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| People Staring at their Phones on the Bus |
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| Scenery Outside the Bus Window |
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| Staring at My Phone |
Music:
The background music for the staring part is made by Ableton Live. I composed a simple piece of looped motif. For the ending part, the music is from a Japanese animation 'Natsume's Book of Friends'. This song is one of the inspiration of the whole idea of this game. One day I was listening to this song on a bus, and then suddenly discovered the beautiful scenery outside the bus.
Problem:
When I tried to publish the game, there were some problems about the format of the audio files...Still trying to fix it.
So here is the link to the version without sounds:
http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/18790
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