For the first activity we were tasked with choosing an emotion and writing 3 types of post it notes. At first we added verbs, then nouns and then adjectives relating to that emotion.
After the first activity, we had to pick three random post it notes for each of the categories and then come up with three game ideas. I think for this activity the post it notes I chose were too abstract but i still came up with a concept i liked with the quicksand one. This was my second idea in my powerpoint i produced at the end of the week.
In Jordan’s Lecture we had a quick activity where we worked in random groups of people and were given three emotions and then a list of 5 game criteria using https://www.bafta.org/programmes/young-game-designer/idea-generator/ and we had to come up with a rough game idea in 5 minutes.
This was useful as even if some of the ideas didn’t really make any sense or i couldn’t see them working as an actual game (such as my sixth idea) it allowed me to be more creative and the first idea i actually ended up picking for one of my three to pitch by the end of the week. I could also adapt any of the ideas afterwards if i felt like any of the constraints didn’t work completely, they were just a good starting off point.
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