Week 8: LCCS Assets/Ideas Received + Prototypes + PowerPoint Skeleton

Raquel and I had a rather challenging Owl/Zoom discussion with the Trash Trivia team from Parsons. We could not hear them well and neither could they hear us well. After switching rooms and earphones a few times, we even tried typing, with Jeet typing us back from LCCS. This worked better sometimes and at other times, talking was better. After some intervention from LCCS side, the communication became a little bit better.

PROGRESS

We showed our 3 moodboards to the students and got them to vote on their favourite. Given how the team is made up of 6 boys and 1 girl, they all seemed to prefer the Game Show style better, but this could also be what they are most familiar with when it comes with Family Feud.

But towards the end of the discussion, the boys somehow ended up getting quite obsessed with the idea of an underwater, mysterious/dark setting and so we asked them to do more drawings for us to use as production assets.

To keep things going and to involve everyone in the making process, we allocated tasks to each student and asked them to come prepared next week with things to show and discuss with us. Hopefully they will have done their homework.

We also sent them this email after the Owl/Zoom conversation:

Going with our forest idea since everyone else is doing underwater/water related projects; Raquel and I decided it would be good to tailor the enchanter forest idea to the boys’ taste by perhaps changing it to a future forest/futuristic forest idea. By incorporating the neon lights and fog machine the kids liked during the Owl/Zoom discussion, we devised a new moodboard and prepared the first prototype for testing our game.

BELOW: Inspiration images