For this project, our team received a prompt centered around the theme of "Happiness." In response, we embarked on a mission to create a game that perfectly encapsulated the essence of happiness. Our inspiration led us to recreate the joyous experience of playing a real-life claw machine, aiming to capture the emotions of anticipation, excitement, and sheer delight that accompany successfully grabbing a prize. Another crucial element in our pursuit of happiness was the relationship between the player character and the children, with the objective of securing cats to bring smiles to all involved. To enhance the player's experience, we opted for a more forgiving approach, deviating from the typical claw machine's unforgiving odds and strict timers found in traditional games. Our ultimate goal was to evoke visible happiness in the player, allowing them to endlessly attempt to collect cats using a charming ghost-like creature as the claw
We possess numerous design documents facilitating communication among designers, programmers, and artists. However, I believe that supplementing these documents with more detailed information, such as concept art, will significantly enhance my ability to convey the vision of "what the game should look like" to both programmers and artists. In addition to the design documents, I have also included several images to aid in articulating my ideas to the team
The original design involves transitioning between two game scenes: the top-down gameplay scene and the gameplay result scene
The original gameplay interface design
The new version combined the gameplay scene and the catching result scene together
The animation that the in-game characters will perform and the design of how we provide the desired cat to the players is an integral part of our game concept
Gameplay Video
And More!
For extenting the game, we designed two more gameplay modes. We designed two new game scene, the cosmo and the ocean level. In those to level, we also designed two different claw movement so that the players can experience different gameplay and able to enjoy moreĀ