Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Design project-day 3

Some of the descriptions of what I think is fun, match this game well one of them is be able to challenge your friends and the game we have chosen lets you do this, also that the game is easy to understand and is straightforward. also it has an easy objective to achieve. And it really challenges you and your friends.

The most powerful ideas that I want to keep are that it a soccer based game , that you can play against your fiends, and it is also similar to an air hockey.

The ideas that I do not want to keep is that the game mode is like a "mosca" or progressive that each time that they score a goal on you you have to switch.


  1. grab a piece of cardboard
  2. cut it into one large piece and 4 small ones
  3. paste the four small one on the large for them to function as legs to the large one 
  4. the bring some paddles and a ball
  5. make some obstacles out of any material and paste them on the field
  6. then put the game in another class
we will do it all together as a group

ping pong balls( me, Sofia , Juliana)



Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Design project-day 2


  Decide which model has the most strengths (on blog)
Both Sofia's and my model are very good because they were strangely very similar because they were both easy to use and play and simple.
    Decide on the details from the other models that you will include (on blog)
-Will have a gap in the parts of the game that are considered out.
-It will be a 4 player game 
-Both will include two different soccer teams 
-Will have obstacles
-Make the game mosca style
    -Decide what might need to be added or taken away from the model in #1 (on blog)
I have to take away some of the obstcles as it weould be almost impossible to win and also adding the gap that acts like an out of bounds space for the game.
Also need to add some more decoration to make the game look cooler so more people will want to play it.M\ke the game like a mosca style game so we need to 
. Write down feedback (on blog) that you get from classmates
    -What was good- the mosca style, many players at a time, the obstacles, that it is challenging
    -What should you consider changing? make it stiffer, make it big.


Friday, February 1, 2013

Design project-day 1

Alejandro Garcia, Juliana Laborde, Sofia Cuellar

Game: for middle school, coed game
Difficulty: medium

What makes a game fun:

  • that its addicting 
  • its challenging 
  • that you can win a big prize
  • or that you can challenge your friends and play with them to see who is better
  • easy to understand
  • easy objective to achieve
  • easy to play not too complicated


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7x-F5irBY- ticket grab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cEWELoxEsY- labyrinth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJWF-nyZFvk-pinball

ticket grab: i think what was good was that it was very difficult to grab the tickets and it was a very creative idea, what could made better was that the tickets were dropped instead of them being on the floor because people can cheat.

labyrinth: what was good is it had different levels of difficulty and was really well designed, I did not see anything to improve it was a genius idea.

pinball: i this it was very creative and I though it was good how he used disk as blockers and I like levers that push the ball, but the game should not be about chipping it in a box it should be about who lasts longer you could also make the levers more smoothly to move

Brainstorm:

  • labyrinth 
  • ball toss 
  • shazam 
  • relay race
  • fuzzball
  • soccer game
  • air hockey 
  • air soccer


fuzzball: good- everyone likes football, it would be a competitive game vs another player, a challenge, you could make bets based on this game, doesn't need our presence, challenge your friends, real life teams.
bad-The field could get damaged,or unstable, the ball could be to bouncy and never go into the goal, goal could get damaged, ball could get lost or break. but we could make it out of reinforced cardboard make it plain and also and give them a lot of balls so they can lose some.