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Vidhi and I play-tested the 'Soleil' ARG last Thursday (Oct 23, 2014) at Roma St Parklands, Brisbane.

Terrific web app and great location quests... all designed, developed and play-tested by MCI Interaction Design Students at QUT...

MY MPE Project Design

Research + Design Dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dpdt1tgsm58i52r/Research%2BProject.rar?dl=0

MPE Name:

Dimension Postie

  MPE Tagline:

A Dimension Door for Postcard Collectomania – a way to collect postcards around the world without traveling

  MPE Synopsis:

How to collect the postcards from different countries with diverse stamps and postmarks  within three months or less time, but it just sounds a little bit unrealistic for many people who seldom travel around. In addition, few tourists prefer to send postcards to friends, as e-mail is much faster and more convenient, not to mention the social media allows people to share their journey at real time. Therefore the aim of this project is to provoke the popularity of sending postcards and offer the users an easier access to collect them all, even to drive the international interaction and communication.

Setting:

The game will be run for three months. People from 50 most popular cities are invited to join the program. At first, players need to create their own online shops of postcards on the Dimension Postie site, and get some postcards which are representative of their cities as exchange commodities to post on the “display case”. Then they can go to another player’s shop to pick the favorite one and negotiate about the exchange. An agreed deal is based on satisfaction with both sides. Players will be encouraged to design and make their own postcards which are more customized. The 5 persons of the fastest to achieve all postcards of 50 cities and 5 of the most well-designed will win the game, and are rewarded with round-trip tickets of where they desire to go.

Character:

Postie – an animated image of a pillar-box as well as the icon of the website, who can offer information and answers to any questions about post and instruct users how to play the game. Players can also chat with it about any topics.

  MPE Use Case and Mapping:

People from 50 most popular cities will be invited to join the program through social media, such as a Facebook link which directs them to a landing page. After they register, Postie will present them the game guide, like how to build their online postcard shops, where to get the nice postcards in their cities, where do the postmarks belong to, or how to make your own postcards? Players can pull in their friends to join the fun, on the other hand, to complete the task faster. There is a forum for players to interact. Postie as well as the players can share the cultures, customs and landscapes of their city, or some useful experience and tricks to photograph and design postcard on the site. And participants will be highly recommended to take up the camera and go outdoors to take pictures for postcard design. The records of completing a trade deal will be mark on their shop page, where they use to display what they have received. They can also choose to share the records and achievements on social media. At final, the 5 fastest winners and 5 best designers voted by participants will win a round-trip ticket of their favorite city.

  MPE Sample interfaces:

Contextual Review + Poster

https://www.sendspace.com/file/zml3xr Click on "Click here to start download from sendspace"

Link to Drop Box PDF

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ece10u6xwkvxs9p/KIP402%20Assignment%201%20Charlotte%20Bailey.pdf?dl=0

Link to Drop Box Promotional Poster