Rapid Physical Game Design:  Challenge 1: Puzzle Problem  Game Rules:   Examples: Challenge 2: Blind Fire Game Rules: Challenge 3: Starry Five Game Rules: Challenge 4: Collaboration Nation Infiltration  Project 1: The Beginning Project 2: Combining Forces Project 3: Inferno  Collaboration with Richard Bui Project 4: TBA

Rapid Physical Game Design: 

Challenge 1: Puzzle Problem 

Game Rules:

Collaboration with Tommy Benson and Jeremy Salo 

• This is a game for two players.

• What You’ll need:

• A timer or stopwatch

• A set of playing pieces (provided)

• A physical barrier that prevents the two players from seeing each other’s materials.

• Deck of the puzzles (shuffle before playing)

• The two roles

• The Descriptor:  Using a set of images that cannot be viewed by the constructor, the Descriptor’s role is to verbally explain the structure they see in their set of images.

• When the round starts, the descriptor grabs one puzzle from their deck of puzzles. Once the descriptor sees the puzzle, they ask if the constructor is ready. When the constructor says yes, the round begins. Use the stopwatch to time the round.

• The Constructor: Using the verbal information from the descriptor, they are expected to reconstruct the structure with their set of pieces/props.

• Players switch roles after each round.

• Note: The youngest player is the descriptor first.

• Constraints

• The two players cannot see what each other has.

• The Descriptor cannot see what the Constructor is making

• The Constructor cannot see the images the Descriptor is using.

• The Constructor cannot ask questions to the Descriptor, but they can ask the Descriptor to clarify what they’ve said.

• The Descriptor can only communicate the instructions verbally. They can not show any visual information.

• Rules/Scoring

• Each round only lasts two minutes and thirty seconds (2:30)

• At the end of each round, the barrier is put down and the image and the physical set are compared. The two players win if the image matches the constructor’s set.

  Examples:

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Challenge 2: Blind Fire

Game Rules:

Collaboration with Alex Cano McConnel, Kelia Murata, Quincie Neale, Ben Efram, and Richard Bui

Players:

• 4 players separated into two teams, each team has

• An Attacker

• This player is blindfolded

• They cannot speak or their team loses

• They start out with their arms at their sides

• A Watcher

• Cannot go into play space, but can move around it

• Watchers are paired with Attackers, one of each type on each team..

Goal:

• Hit the gut (front) of the opponent at elbow length.

• E.g. elbows have to be bolted at the side

Rules:

• At the start of the game Watchers spin the opposing team’s Attacker and place them somewhere in the 8x8ft. play space (marked with cones/tape/anything).

• No one can talk during this point of the game

• This is the only time Watchers can enter the play space square

• The team with the youngest player gets to call out the first move

• Watchers lead their own Attackers using verbal communication

• At any command except ‘Attack’, the Attacker’s arms must be at their sides

• Watchers takes turns commanding Attackers

• Watchers can only use one word commands

• Suggestions for communication:

• ‘Forward’

• ‘Backwards’

• ‘Left’

• ‘Right’

• ‘Turn’ (Tip: Watchers could move around the space to dictate direction of attacker.)

• ‘Attack’

• Once the Watcher is confident that their Attacker is in place they can give the ‘Attack’ command. To attack, with elbows bolted to their sides, raise arms straight up in attempt to hit opponents chest as seen below. Hit must hit the stomach/chest of opposing attacker to be considered viable.

• If an Attacker steps out of bounds, then their team is disqualified

• If the Attacker moves without consent, then their team is disqualified

• If the Watchers step into the play area, then their team is disqualified

Attacking motion:

Playtesting Prototype Notes:

GC2-PlaytestingNotes.pdf

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Challenge 3: Starry Five

Collaboration with Julia Jones and Jeremy Salo

Game Rules:

This game is meant for five players.

Each player will be a designated color: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue and have five beanbags of their respective color.

1. Each player will be in their respective territory lines

2. Players may stand in any of the four rings directly in front of them, but must be on one foot

3. Once the game begins players toss their beanbags into rings NOT within their own territory

4. To score a point, one of a player’s bags must land in a ring of the corresponding color

5. Players may block incoming bags using one foot.

6. Players lose a point if one of the rings in their territory has a bag (of any color) in it.

7. At the end of the game, points are tallied. The player with the highest total points wins

Playtesting Notes: People misunderstood what to do with the extra beanbag

More than one beanbag in one ring - just one point (clarify this in rules)

Are beabags out? - use your best judgement

Players got into tiebreaker - figured out that they cannot defend

PerdeeJonesSaloGame3.MP4

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Challenge 4: Collaboration Nation Infiltration 

Collaboration team: Hannah Tindal, Alex Cano McConnell, Ben Efram, Jeremy Salo, Hanna Pardee, Kelia Murata, Tommy Benson

Object of the game:

This is a game for 8 players, two teams of 4 each in a separate space. Each of the 4 players will start in different corners of the play space. The teams will have to work together to retrieve balls of a certain color from the bowl, this color determines what corner you must return to (the corners color is dictated by its cone, which cannot be moved) as well as arrive there with the matching colored ring. (ie by the end of the game your ball, ring, and cone/corner must all be the same color, but not necessarily the same color that you started with)

Set up:

Both teams of four have 5 minutes to set up the opposing team’s obstacles. This includes setting up the string (security lasers) and the location of the bowl of balls (jewel case) within the space, and choosing what rings go in what corner.

Each team will have one NPC runner who is able to return the travel ring, determine whether a player touches the trip wire.

Restrictions:

• The string may only have up to 8 anchor points and may ONLY be attached using tape to the four walls around the space. You may not wrap the string around the tables/walls. The tables/board/walls may not be moved.

• The bowl of balls must stay within the space and not placed inside any of the rings, but may be placed next to a ring.

• Each corner must have a cone and a ring (red, blue, green, or yellow. They do not need to match) The movement ring (purple) must be placed by any one of the four corner rings(within stepping distance).

• See image below

During Play:

• All four players simultaneously attempt to reach the bowl without knocking it over and grab a ball, then travel to the corner with a cone of the same color as the ball they retrieved.

• Players may not share rings (Be in the same ring)

• Players may ONLY have one ball at a time but may hand another player a ball.

Movement

• You are considered standing  “inside a ring” as long as you have two points of contact within your ring (i.e. if a player must put down a hand when traveling through trip wires, they are allowed to do so if they have two points of contact inside their available rings).

• Players may ONLY move by stepping into the travel ring, and passing the ring they stepped out of to another player (that ring becomes the new travel ring) .

• At the start of the game the purple ring is the travel ring. There is only one travel ring at a time.

• The current player with the travel ring steps into that ring and passes their previous ring to another player to allow the next player to move. The previous ring then becomes the new travel ring.  

• When the player passes the movement ring, players must move to where the ring lands, they cannot adjust its new location.

• If the movement ring is unreachable, players can recruit the help of one of the NPCs to retrieve the ring and give it back to the original thrower.

• Players must slide the fifth ring (the Travel Ring) to each other to allow movement through the space (you may slide in any order).

• When passing the ring, players cannot slide the ring to move themselves and must coordinate with the other three players to move.

• Players have a choice to either step into the travel ring or they can pass it to another player.

Player Reset

• If you are caught outside a ring, touching a tripwire, or if you knock over the bowl players must reset the space (this changes based on what you touch).

• Note: tripwires only triggers when contacted with the body, not loose clothing. NPC runner judges use best judgement

• If you fall outside your ring or hit one of the tripwires, you must return to the corner you began the game in with your current ring and must return your ball to the bowl.

• If you knock the bowl over during this kind of reset, it doesn’t count as a full reset for the team.

• If you knock over the bowl, all players return to their starting corner and must return all the balls to the bowl.

• If a player has successfully made it to their correct corner with the correct ball and ring, they become immune to these reset conditions.

Win State

• Once you have a ball and you are in the same colored space, you must be standing in the ring of the SAME COLOR as the ball you are holding. Once all players have met this requirement they have completed the game. The first team to complete their task wins.

Example of win state

Playtesting Notes 

Challenge4notes.pdf

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Programming for Play: 

Project 1: The Beginning

Pardee_Programming4Play_Challenge1.zip

Modified the car class as well as created a scene with my own sprite with its own scripts. 

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Project 2: Combining Forces

Collaboration with Kelia Murata

Pardee_Murata_Project2F.zip

We combined our two projects together. I used the car scene with collecting tokens. The objective of my game was to collect 5 green tokens whereas Kelia's game took place in the space game. She had the player collect satellites while avoiding asteroids.  As a result, our goals were too similar. We decided to combine forces and created a new goal. We had the player collect at least, 5 satellites and return back to earth. We added a background, bounding boxes, a new end goal sprite (earth), healing tokens from the car scene.

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Project 3: Inferno 

Collaboration with Richard Bui

BuiPardee_Assignment2(Update3).zip

A multiplayer game where a sister and brother got separated and caught in a house fire. Using the arrows keys and WASD keys, the players must work together. They must navigate through the maze, gather and exchange keys and escape the location together under a time limit.
Playtesting notes:
Players seemed to confused to the 'windows' where the keys are exchanged.

Suggested that the players shouldn't have to backtrack to the windows

Players kept getting trapped in corners - both positive and negative feedback about the corners;

     Good: works with the burning house narrative 

     Bad: May frustrate the player when playing 

Enjoyed the aspect of the mazes changing each time played as it gives variety and changes difficulty. 

Need to add a exit collider for players who are not at the window as the players exchanged keys when one player left the window area. (Key basically teleported) 

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Project 4: TBA

Collaboration with Tommy Benson, Alex Cano McConnell, Jeff Mutchnik