Working off our first and third ideas.
Idea 1 split screen long distance relationship puzzle game where text messages between the characters prompt the player to find the solution to either save or split the couple. The puzzles are solved by moving objects between the two sides of the screen
Idea 3 mobile game. you as the player have found a lost phone. Your task is to return it to the owner by using the information you gather – reading this person’s texts, fb messages, emails, or looking at her/his pictures – to determine where this person may be. You must physically i.e. IRL go to the building suggested by the clues to progress in the game.
Set a date at the start, scene changes according the seasonwhat are they doing when they’re not talking to each other
break up if you don’t complete the puzzles, not completing task pushes relationship apart
not good about communication, can choose to ignore texts?
send text button that the player has to click
finishing each others’ thoughts
Backgrounds (haha, backgrounds)
Girl / Alaska
Teaching high school math/science
Low internet / cell connectivity
pitch black winter / bright summer
Time difference
Guy / New York City
CEO of Design Firm (interior design?)
has pet cat
seasonal changes
Puzzles / Situations
girl: I don’t have furniture
solution: send furniture, maybe catalog
girl: I like having time to reflect
guy: miss scent of perfume
solution: drag snow from mountain to plant, plant grows into flower of her scent
hurricane Sandy → get food from lunch made at home?
girl: food, ethnic food, first date restaurant
girl: biking
guy: dancing
girl: playing favorite song on laptop (thought bubble: <3 other guy’s face song note)
solution: drag song to radio
anti-solution: drag laptop to trash
guy: I remember when ____
solution: drag and drop something onto text
guy: I don’t like this art piece / design
girl: that’s nice……. (in text) ew face (IRL)
guy: I want to know what you’re teaching
solution: send textbook
girl: it’s dark out all the time
solution: send a candle / light bulbs
girl: I miss autumn, the leaves turning color
solution; send a leaf
guy: christmas tree stuff
solution: pine trees in alaska
girl: it’s cold
solution: blanket
guy: loses a client
girl: student breaks leg
girl: nightmare
girl: student is failing / unmotivated
guy: sex now
guy: let’s go to ____ when you get back
girl: kids so cute
girl: I miss people
girl: I miss cat
girl: palin gross
Idea 3
Murder – Mr. Rogers is still alive
Real person – alumnus
Server-side stuff
images
kidnapping, you become kidnapped
Story
Find phone
Prompts with mini-game download
mini-game prompts user to move phone or uses accelerometer, etc
“If you’re feeling like a jerk ’cause your project just won’t work, go ahead and take the leap, then you’ll finally get some sleep.”
Hammerschlag rape
remember that fence quote..yeah
– possible picture
Stuff already on phone?
Notes → cheating for exam (Psych)
Past e-mail from psych prof about seeing him for cheating incident
Past facebook messages from rapist about having fun or something?
More current facebook messages about meeting for club event
E-mail from PACS about rape victim resources
Facebook ads about rape victim resources
Camera photos: the fence, bridge (of suicide)
Triggers
Calendar event OS class → Gates
Facebook message from friend to go to club meeting → Doherty
E-mail from company about interview → UC
E-mail from company about missing interview
Text message from parents
Twitter posts from people commenting about cheating incident (“it wasn’t even that hard”)
At one point, get flooded by calls / text messages for people trying to find out where you are
Transitions
Start
Text from OS partner “SHIT’S BROKEN ALL OVER THE PLACE” (text history about OS-related stuff)
Text again from OS partner “Office hours in Gates now?”
At Gates → Text from OS partner “Can’t make it to office hours, gotta pick up psych exam and go to meeting, can you figure out what’s wrong?”
At Gates →
Suicide motivations
OS – got to Gates for class from Calendar notification
Project due – Wean cluster, Resnik dorm,
Girlfriend breaks up with you
Parents pressuring grades → getting into grad school
Financial troubles – Cyert hall
Getting a job – UC
No one likes you → no one pays attention to you – frat / sorority, UC, Doherty, (club meetings)
Deep shit (cheated on an exam, about to get expelled) – Doherty, Porter, (any academic building)
Rape – Hammerschlag
Sickness, in general – Morewood health services
Campus Job crappiness – Alumni Hall
Apps
Facebook
Foursquare
SMS
E-mail
Twitter
Camera
Calendar
Notifications
Notes
Reminders
Phone
Music
Reddit
Phone Sensors
Accelerometer
GPS
Wifi/3G
Compass
Radio?
NFC?
