#cardsforplay

After creating our first prototype of T&T we went straight to testing. We had a group of 6 people who were then split into two teams. The two teams were given two different methods of answering the trivia questions. This was to display the difference between how individuals respond to questions based on external cues.

Team 1 answering the trivia together with a 10-second limit - Collaborative Team 2 answering the trivia separately, without discussing their answers together, instead they answer immediately with whatever comes to mind - Autonomous

These were our findings:

Team 1 seemed to shout out whatever came to mind, without using the 10 seconds that they had been given to debate the answers. However, after being reminded to use the 10 seconds and because of questions that they found challenging they began to work more as a group. As we got the last questions the began to still discuss the question even if they had it right, this shows how in a short span they were able to adapt and improve their communication skills, they learnt to talk amongst themselves and approve of something together rather than one for themselves.

Team 2 only got answers right whenever the loudest person was, it was evident that the loudest person had the authority and managed to speak over the group the most. Every time they missed an opportunity to get the answer right, or they were wrong the showed disappointment and frustration towards each other and themselves. What this showed us was that communication is key to a working team when you relegate a team to be ‘every man for himself’ they often fight, have less confidence in themselves and the team and most interestingly have to find different ways to be heard, for instance, Max uses non-verbal language (his hands) twice to answer the question.

Some issues to address:

After finishing our first assignment, I almost feel like I am a different person to when I started.

What I discovered about the process: - Didn’t realize how much and how often our ideas would change throughout the process - I had no idea how fast we were going with the progress in the first week, because I didn’t realize that there would be slides teaching us the whole design process, so our first idea/s were quite ambitious in the time given - Many ideas can be greatly improved by allowing them to be put in the minds of others - It’s okay to not agree with someone’s thoughts and ideas (in some cases it is more beneficial disagreeing, as it widens the perception of everyone in the group and creates open-minded thinking) - The pure magic of having everyone’s individual personalities and abilities fit together like jigsaw pieces

Things I would change if I were to do it again: - Prioritize just getting it done rather than trying to perfect each individual aspect - Organize set roles so everyone knows what they are doing at what time - Play test on different age areas to see if anything would change - Do more research to have better informed statements and concepts

Reflection of myself throughout the assignment: - I became less of a perfectionist - Learnt to appreciate the process rather than the outcome - Less scared of failure, which often prevents me from working on things to my full potential - Better at allowing myself to be seen and heard by others - Developed a liking for leadership and being able to assist, co-ordinate and direct the team to make the process smoother

Recap-

At the start of Friday morning, I developed a new design for the cards utilising my knowledge of colour theory. 

As a group, we acknowledged the connotations that the following colours exerted was appropriate for our varying Levels of Difficulty and categorising each card. The colours and design we chose were as follows:

v1.0

v1.2

Blue - The dark blue represents strength and reliability whilst the combination with the light blue that is often associated with calmness and relaxation. For the easiest level, it made sense to us as a group to have calm and reliable meaning/association to the colour.

Green - Green is associated with stability and can be representative of affluence. For medium difficulty, it represents the medium and equilibrium of knowledge. 

Red - This colour is often associated with importance and also indicates danger. As the Hard level, we wanted to express its importance and envoke danger (red stop sign). I used a muted version of red as it would've been overwhelming and overpowering amongst the other cards.

Black - Black is often a symbol in games and sport as the hardest known levels to play, for example, Black Diamond slopes in skiing. We wanted to relate back to this to represent our hardest level. 

15/03

Final card design:

In studio thinking of a way to incorporate all of our individual games into one as a quick side project and to see what would happen. 

With @samvea​ @cubabush​. 

Sam mentioned rock, paper, scissors, so we created a card version using Cuba’s yellow, red & blue cards. Red = Rock / Yellow = Scissors / Blue = Paper and using the similar idea of my game by each player putting down a card and challenging another player. We created this simple game. The game actually worked well. It was enjoyable and entertaining, to see how a mish-mash of games could work.

03/03/2017

08/03/2017

Colour Scheme