Design Goal:

• To make a game playground centered around one verb

  • Verb the team chose was "Ignore"

  • Resulted in a game where the player picks up to 3 items to preserve before causing time to advance. Objects that were ignored deteriorate with time, while picked objects remain the same

Work done on the project:

• Created a narrative concept for the playground to theme the mechanic around (watching a childhood bedroom grow more dilapidated over time)

• Coordinated and collaborated with the artists in-person and via Discord to brainstorm the objects that the player would interact with in the room

• Created a script in Google Docs for a video briefly presenting our game and explaining some design choices in it

Challenges:

• "Ignore" as a verb runs very close to "Observe", was a signficant challenge to design the theme of the playground around one without wholly invoking the other

  • Chose to focus on the negative connotation inherent to "Ignore" to create the stylistic choice of things decaying if ignored