Project 1

Max's Idea

Lavender's Idea

Se Win's Idea

• 3 grading method/requirement as Knowledge, Richness, Happy & Healthiness.

• At the end of the game, 1st of each grading method/requirement will be rewarded 5 star, 2nd will be rewarded 2 star

• Whoever has the highest star in the end of game wins

• Starting point:

1. 10 beginning attributes will be distributed within 3 grading method. E.g. 5 knowledge 4 richness 1 happy & healthiness.

2. 6 characters they have different abilities,

3. 1 Rich = 50k, 1 h&h = 1 love, 1 knowledge = 1 brain

• Replace cards with spinner (a spinner could have few occasions)

• Stages/sections of life:

  • If one of the event require x knowledge, the player has not enough knowledge, then he misses the opportunity

  • Students -> Working Life (early, mid, late) -> Retirement

  • Early, mid, late working life has different event (late don't have any job change, but investment)

  • If choose to proceed study at early working life, they go to other side of the road, then join back to the working road in the middle (25 y.o.)

• Type of decision:

  • Proceed study? Job change? Risk & reward game? Safe or risky route (investment)?

  • Marry or not marry? Getting children or not (number of child base on spin) ?

  • Buy building (the earlier we buy, the higher the inflation)?

  • Buy car or not (higher chance of getting good card where person without car can’t have, eligible to earn reward in some event)?

  • Choose what level of housing u wanted to buy

• Reaching Retirement:

  • Child provides happiness, Wife provides happiness

  • Properties become richness

• Knowledge determines what type of job u eligible to take on, not directly relating to salary

• Knowledge and money determines if u can take onto higher studies

• Bankrupt = disqualified because the player didn’t plan their life properly

• Child & partner & travel = sacrifice money for h&h

• Spin the wheel to see how much the travel cost, but the h&h remain the same

• AR components:

  • Spin the Wheel

  • Decisions that are appearing to be chosen

Mr. Charles

After we explain the first idea to Mr. Charles, he asked us to think on the following questions:

1. why appearing?

2. target audience?

3. what makes it unique?

4. what’s the point of the game?

Mr. Charles then told us to signify a problem statement

• what can be better / not enough / too much / why the game takes long to play - the cause

• center the main problem statement that give the reason to innovate

• observation of particular game we studying

Mr. Charles then asked us to do netnography study, get online data and see what people say about this game (on steam maybe). He asked to to discover what is driving the player to come back to the game, what’s the thing that player will take back from the game, lingering thought on player itself that drive them to play the game.

Other questions about our first idea:

• other than money, gold? diamond? love?

• unique part: e.g. competition - why would you want to compete?

Problem Statement

• Instead of competing throughout the game, we can know each other also

• Getting to know each other through their secrets

• Helping players to reflect what happened in the past

• With awards and penalties (move back)

• Winning condition: reach the end (racing)

• Wanted to know new friends (get to know other people)

• Target audience: new group of friends

• what’s the thing that player will take back from the game? Get to know more interesting life events/thoughts

• Ice and water (win condition: last one standing)

Theme: Malaysia Food

Refer to “Survive” board, there’re hexagons on the board, they have 2 sides: the upward stating the categories of ingredients (spices, protein, vegetable…), while the [actual] ingredients will be hidden below, where you can only review it when u step on the pieces.

Action cards (challenges such as steal cards OR trade card) are also randomly placed in it, same as ingredients, it might be useful or might not, players can only know when they they stepped on the pieces.

As for the “recipe / instruction booklet”, ingredients needed to make the dishes will be given to all the players. Each recipes carries it’s own points based on the difficulty. The recipes can either (a) players decide on which dishes they want to make based on their available ingredients OR (b) randomly assign the recipe to players

Scenarios:
Base on case (b) above, after players done their dishes, they can decide whether they want to start another dish or not.

For example, if player A who got a recipe with low points finish the dish, he/she will have a chance. He/she must think on whether the ones with recipe with higher points (player B) will be able to finish their dish or not, if player B do, then player B will probably win, if player B are unable to finish, then player A will probably win.

In this scenario, player A would need to decide if he/she wants to get one more recipe/dish to work on. BUT if player A are unable to complete the dish = waste of food, so there will be point deduction.

Player missions: Randomly find the ingredients on the board and complete the dish.

Winning situation: after all the pieces are taken, the one who make the most dishes / dishes with different points (accumulate points) won. [still need to be implemented]

Action Cards:

Ideas on action cards (can have both good & bad ones):

(Good) x5

• A chance to exchange one of ur ingredient with other player (exchange)

• A chance to steal one of ingredient from other player (steal)

• A chance to preview the ingredients [using AR] (preview)

• Can replace any ingredient (replace)

• Step on 1 of any tiles you want (jump? fly?)

(Bad) x3

• Accidentally slipped on the floor, ingredient falled. Pick one of your ingredient and close it back (return)

• Give one ingredient to the person next to you ( give)

• Oooop one of your ingredient rosak, dispose it. (can specify meat maybe cause it get rosak easily) (expired?)

To answer Mr. Charles' question, in this game...

• What we want in life but cannot get it easily?
  Experience the feeling of being a chef with friends

• What is driving the player to come back to the game?
  when you feel the fun playing with your friend, thinking the strategy to win next game

• What’s the thing that player will take back from the game?
  don't be too greedy with the dishes, just do the things you can

• lingering thought on player itself that drive them to play the game
  the competitiveness, thoughts of i must win him/her next time

• food & ingredients

  • Nasi Lemak (2 pandan + 1 Rice + 1 egg + 1 Nasi lemak special ingredient) +3

  • Char Kuey tiao (2 egg + 2 flour + 1 Char Kuey tiao special ingredients) +3

  • Roti Canai (2 flour + 1 spices + 1 butter + 1 Roti Canai special ingredients) +3

  • Satay (2 chicken + 1 spices + 1 satay special ingredients) +2

  • Ketupat + Rendang (2 pandan + 1 rice + 1 chicken + 1 ketupat special ingredient + 1 rendang special ingredients) +4

  • Kuih (1 flour + 1 egg + 1 butter) +1

  • Required 4 Pandan, 2 rice, 4 egg, 5 flour, 3 chicken, 2 spices, 2 butter to make all food

After we explained our new idea (4th idea) to Mr. Charles, he agreed that food theme is a good idea.

Mr. Charles:

• need to have a specific idea only can recognise the game play

• focus on WHAT THE GAME IS and WHO are you as a player

• concept has to be stronger

• Questions:

  • what set the game UNIQUE?

  • WHY the players are coming back / hook them into the game?

  • what is the pattern of the game?

  • should the game be finished / solvable?

  • why do I need to play games that related to recipe?

• Suggestions:

  • UNIQUE Malaysian food: food that player probably don't know, teaching the recipes, so that players could know that.

  • STRANGE food: interesting of the player finding recipe in a fantasy world

Mr. Faizal (guest speaker)

• Get stronger benchmark

• Find something near to your heart

• Have a clear objective, obstacle and concept

• Mechanics should be the last thing to think of

• Try to use ONE sentence to define the game

Questions:

• What is the game about?

  • create as much dishes?

  • create the best dish?

  • best recipe within the game?

• What are the things required to play the game?

Suggestions:

• The idea of new foods that excite you

• Either collecting or exchanging different type/exotic of food

1. What is this game about:

We are creating a game that will introduce and educate players on the exotic Malaysian foods from different ethnics.

2. Target audience:

Food lover, food appreciator

3. Takeaway:

Players will learn about the food itself, simple recipes, the ethnicity from which it originated, and a brief looking of the food.

4. Description:

A game that allow platers to get to know more unpopular foods from different Malaysia ethnics.

5. Game Mechanics:

• All the recipes will be display throughout the game

• Players would need to “fight” for it

• Who collected pair of food from same ethnics will get extra marks

6. Game Details:

• Ethnics + Foods:

  • Malay (Opok-opok, Emping)

  • Chinese (Kompia 光饼, ang zhao mee sua 红槽面线)

  • Indians (Gulab Jamun, Panipuri)

  • Perakanans (otak-otak, swikee)

  • Iban (Manok Pansoh) + Kadasan-Dusun (pinasakan)

  • Melanau (Umai, tebaloi)

We decided to have 6 group (7 ethnics) and each group will have 2 foods. We grouped the Iban and Kadasan-Dusun together because we could not find the second unique food from their ethnics.

• Categories:

  • Spices

  • Vegetables

  • Meats

  • Seafoods

  • Staple Food

  • Add on/others

We also decided to have 6 categories to differentiate the ingredients on the upper part of the hexagons.

7. Food Details

• Food Ingredients

  • Kompia = flour + water + sugar + salt

  • Ang zhao mee sua = sesame oil + noodle + chicken + mushroom + ginger + red glutinous rice wine + water

  • Otak-otak = chili paste + lemongrass + kaffir lime leaves + shallot

  • Swikee = frog leg + garlic + ginger + fermented soy paste + salt + pepper + water

  • Manok Pansoh = chicken + chili paste + ginger + onion + garlic + salt + bamboo log + banana leaf

  • Pinasakan = fish + garlic + onion + turmeric + chilli paste + salt + water

  • Opok-opok = flour + coconut + sugar

  • Emping = melinjo nuts + sugar + salt

  • Gulab jamun = milk + khoa + ghee + flour + sugar + saffron + cardamon + sugar syrup

  • Panipuri = puri + tamarind + potato(2) + chilli pepper(2) + chaat masala

  • Umai = fish + garlic(2) + ginger + lemongrass + kaffir lime leaves + shallot(2) + lime juice

  • Tebaloi = sago + egg + coconut + sugar + turmeric + salt

• By Ingredient Categories:

  • Spices = sugar (5), salt(5), ginger(3), red glutinous rice wine, chili paste(3), kaffir lime leaves (2), garlic(3), fermented soy paste, pepper, onion(2), turmeric, saffron, cardamon, chilli pepper (2), chaat masala

  • Vegetables = mushroom, coconut, melinjo nuts, potato (2)

  • Meats = chicken(2), frog leg, egg

  • Seafoods = shallot (3), fish (2)

  • Staple Food = flour (2), noodle, sago

  • Add on/others = water(4), sesame oil, lemongrass, bamboo log, banana leaf, sugar syrup, puri, tamarind, lime juice, milk, khoa, ghee

1. Food Stacker

2. Food War

3. Food Treasure

4. Malaysia Devour

5. Oh, my dishes!

6. The Fabulous Malaysian / Dishes

7. The Fabulous Msia

8. MasterSia (Malaysia + Masterchef) (Malaysia slang)

9. Makan Lah

10. Makan je la

11. MY Chef

Oh, my dishes!