Potential Research Topics

Over the course of this semester we will be researching four topics divorced from any games design ideas, which we will narrow down to one idea to deepdive. This will help us to create more unique games that we would not have thought of otherwise. After the research phase, we will move on to the create phase, where we will then be creating game ideas which will be presented for feedback, and we pick one idea which should be the strongest and most interesting idea to create a prototype and Project Proposal for. Our project proposal this semester will be the foundation for our Final Major Project game that we will be making in semester 2, which means that it needs to be an idea that is contained and achievable, as our Final Major Project needs to be a complete game.

We made some lists of things that we tie to certain emotions:

Using some of these ideas, I narrowed down my potential research topics to: Social Media, Mould, Comics, Paywalls, Law and Ties. This is some brainstorming I did for potential research topics using the lotus blossom technique: