Get in the Coop

Devlog

• Week 15 HW
  December 18, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Reading ● GDW Chapter 16: Selling Yourself and Your Ideas to the Game Industry (p481—495) The entry level for the game industry is very competitive, Fullerton recommends strategies to get into a... Continue reading
• Week 14 HW
  December 18, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Reading ● GDW Chapter 10: Functionality, Completeness and Balance (pages 305—338) Prototype Testing, Four basic steps of design: Foundation: the core mechanic, a system, what makes the game fun?... Continue reading
• Postmortem
  December 14, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Project Description "Get in the Coop!" is an AR experience game where the core mechanic is chasing chickens. The premise is that the player is a farmer doing their daily activities of herding back chi... Continue reading
• 12.6: Get in the Coop Gameplay Demo
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

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• Get in the Coop Gameplay
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

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• 12.6: Wonderville Playtest
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Mostly debugging issues that had to do with the colliders and scaling of the farm [and plane detection on AR] and some UI elements - possibility of playing the game on a tabletop scale More clarity on... Continue reading

  
• 12.6: Help Menu Elements
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Setting the Premise: You are a farmer herding chickens Goal: Chase Chickens Cautioning players to be aware of their surroundings when playing this AR game Where to? This coop Tap the gate button to op... Continue reading

  
• 12.5-12.12 : UI Buttons and Other Elements
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Button thumbnail Left: close the gate, Right: open the gate [As of Wonderville, 12.6, this gate button has been changed the base gate button] Chicken Counter Icon Title App Icon... Continue reading

  
• 11.21: New School Playtest
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Our Prototype at this stage tested or a good running speed of the chicken... Continue reading
• 11.21: Concept Building/ Potential Features
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  How does the mechanic of herding chickens work on the phone? Rather than in a VR game, the players are still looking at the virtual world through their phone, in this case we must give reason why we a... Continue reading
• 11.19: UI Progress
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Accomplished UI for menu screen “Help” button, visualized as question mark, can be within the game scene Potential UI for game scene: Help (“?”) on the top left corner “Home”/Pause button... Continue reading
• 11.18: Guerilla Testing Questionaire
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Guerilla Testing Questionnaire Age/Gender Name, last name Favorite genre (Playing alone? Playing with friends?) Favorite game moment Favorite platform to play What is your play time? (frequency: casua... Continue reading
• 11.10: Prototype
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  The original cube chicken Simple prototype that spawned five cube chickens around the player, the cube in the center with a green cubic part on its head - bool to indicate if the player's "Spook Chick... Continue reading

  
• 11.14: Concept Art
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Different breeds of chickens Placed in Reality... Continue reading

  
• 11.14: Revision of Game Mechanics and Features
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Take away focus (or entirely) from “minigames” More of a feature than core gameplay Take away focus from individual chickens, general types of chickens (and one unusual chicken (?)) Focus on the o... Continue reading
• 11.12: Possible Inspirations/ Directions
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  AR Dragon: Neko Atsume: IF, our game were to revolve around easily capturing (can be minigames or something even simpler) Chickens and taking pictures of them Is our game more of a “Take care of y... Continue reading
• 11.11: Things to Consider
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Maybe include a pause function just in case players get tired of holding their phone for so long AR UI design principle When players are moving, have less intense information on phone so that players... Continue reading
• 11.5/ 11.7: Concept Refinement and Potential Features
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  11.5 Maybe have all characters as chicken Put a marker on the hand (maybe bracelet) that works as the marker for detecting kabedon Chickens: Muscular: Alpha BUFF Chicken BIG BULGING ARMS, Loves to wor... Continue reading
• 11.4: Concept Review
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Who is dating? Birds or people? Location? ex: Central park Why chase birds? Who is the player? Maybe let the player figure out who he/she is Randomization of player and targets? Make all birds stuck t... Continue reading
• 10.31: Initial Concept
  December 13, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Gameplay: The inital concept was more of a visual novel-style game with a focus on characters and the interaction with these characters Kabedon-ing Birds Dialogue with Birds Take Selfies with Birds T... Continue reading
• Week 13 HW
  November 18, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Exercise ● Video a minimum of 5 users playing your game. Do not answer questions. Let them suffer. Reading "Why Should Indie Devs Care About Video Game Usability Testing? Game design usability test... Continue reading
• Week 12 HW
  November 18, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Exercise ● Focus your game. How much can you remove and still maintain the core experience? Our game's core experience is herding birds, and we're choosing to focus more on that. More specifically... Continue reading
• Week 11 HW
  November 18, 2019 by Michelle Tu

  Exercise ● 6.7: Describe Your Game (p182) [In one or two paragraphs describe the essence of your game idea. Try to capture what makes it interesting to you and how the basic gameplay will work] Ka... Continue reading