WEBVTT 00:00:05.289 --> 00:00:06.830 LENNIE MARTINEZ: I'm Lennie Martinez. 00:00:06.830 --> 00:00:09.535 I'm a sophomore in AeroAstro, actually. 00:00:09.535 --> 00:00:12.620 I'm part of the Saving Gora Gora group. 00:00:12.620 --> 00:00:15.290 Our game is called Saving Gora Gora. 00:00:15.290 --> 00:00:19.120 It's a game about-- well it has to do with tropical cholera. 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:21.930 And our goal was to teach children 00:00:21.930 --> 00:00:25.850 how to prevent cholera, because our target audience were 00:00:25.850 --> 00:00:30.380 Gonian children ages 8 to 13, approximately. 00:00:30.380 --> 00:00:33.960 And pretty much our main goal was just 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:35.940 to educate them in a fun way that wouldn't 00:00:35.940 --> 00:00:37.231 seem like we're educating them. 00:00:41.261 --> 00:00:41.760 Oh, OK. 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:43.670 So our design brief was pretty general. 00:00:43.670 --> 00:00:48.580 It said, look at the cholera tool kit that's online, 00:00:48.580 --> 00:00:52.580 that you find online, and try to create a game 00:00:52.580 --> 00:00:55.580 to teach kids about cholera. 00:00:55.580 --> 00:00:57.220 So they gave us our target audience, 00:00:57.220 --> 00:00:59.680 which was Gonian children ages 8 to 13. 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:04.170 And we we're thinking, originally-- well, it 00:01:04.170 --> 00:01:07.649 was an idea that we had based off Animal Crossing, where 00:01:07.649 --> 00:01:09.190 it's a bunch of different mini games. 00:01:09.190 --> 00:01:11.490 So each mini game would include a small lesson. 00:01:11.490 --> 00:01:13.920 And then, they would all come together 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.190 to become one large MEDI PUZZLE. 00:01:16.190 --> 00:01:19.080 And in solving the MEDI PUZZLE, the players 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:23.390 would learn how to, I guess, prevent cholera or counter 00:01:23.390 --> 00:01:27.275 cholera, and that was what led most of our design process. 00:01:31.630 --> 00:01:37.152 The visual style came about- well, we had a very-- well, 00:01:37.152 --> 00:01:38.610 we had an original visual silo that 00:01:38.610 --> 00:01:41.193 was very different from what you guys saw in the presentation. 00:01:43.392 --> 00:01:47.940 We had to research-- we had done research on children, 00:01:47.940 --> 00:01:52.070 but we had to take a look back and redo everything 00:01:52.070 --> 00:01:56.070 because it wasn't as-- once we compared it, 00:01:56.070 --> 00:01:58.500 once we had a finished build, we compared it 00:01:58.500 --> 00:02:02.941 to-- we had to do research on what cartoons would better 00:02:02.941 --> 00:02:03.440 look like. 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:07.934 And we found that it was very different and very clashing. 00:02:07.934 --> 00:02:10.100 So we did some research some more on Gonian culture, 00:02:10.100 --> 00:02:12.730 and we tried to find, make it fit better. 00:02:12.730 --> 00:02:16.440 And so we went for more artsy, woodsy, 00:02:16.440 --> 00:02:18.940 cartoonish little people, very little kid, 00:02:18.940 --> 00:02:22.460 but it's still not too childish for other people. 00:02:25.909 --> 00:02:27.950 I originally, really, was interested in the class 00:02:27.950 --> 00:02:31.140 because one of the textbooks was Design of Everyday Things. 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:32.860 It's a book I find really interesting. 00:02:32.860 --> 00:02:34.770 I've been trying to read it, but it's 00:02:34.770 --> 00:02:38.292 hard with the curriculum, the overall MIT curriculum. 00:02:38.292 --> 00:02:40.000 So, I really came into the class thinking 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.740 that I really wanted to work on the design aspect of things. 00:02:42.740 --> 00:02:45.220 But as we started working on projects, 00:02:45.220 --> 00:02:48.882 the match win side became a bit more interesting, a bit more, 00:02:48.882 --> 00:02:51.090 something I started working a bit more because it was 00:02:51.090 --> 00:02:53.930 more accessible for me with my not so 00:02:53.930 --> 00:02:56.830 robust knowledge of coding. 00:02:56.830 --> 00:02:58.790 But then, later on for this project particular, 00:02:58.790 --> 00:03:00.119 I took the role of the writer. 00:03:00.119 --> 00:03:02.244 So I was in charge of writing most of the dialogue, 00:03:02.244 --> 00:03:03.220 and that was also very interesting. 00:03:03.220 --> 00:03:05.050 So I feel like I gained a lot more skills 00:03:05.050 --> 00:03:06.308 than I thought I would have. 00:03:10.530 --> 00:03:12.750 I think a really big part of the process 00:03:12.750 --> 00:03:14.850 is to start writing really early. 00:03:14.850 --> 00:03:16.940 The writing, we left it off a bit 00:03:16.940 --> 00:03:18.492 until we had the general mini games 00:03:18.492 --> 00:03:20.700 and used the writing to tie everything back together. 00:03:20.700 --> 00:03:23.464 But I think it would have been a much more smoother process 00:03:23.464 --> 00:03:24.880 or a much more interesting process 00:03:24.880 --> 00:03:27.129 if we had started the writing, had we used the writing 00:03:27.129 --> 00:03:29.260 to lead the design process. 00:03:29.260 --> 00:03:31.565 But it wasn't, I mean, it would have 00:03:31.565 --> 00:03:32.940 been better had we started early, 00:03:32.940 --> 00:03:35.400 but it wasn't too bad or too much of a difference 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.440 between the work we have now and the work we had before. 00:03:38.440 --> 00:03:41.740 But aside from that, I think it's really important 00:03:41.740 --> 00:03:45.550 to start and meet early and sort of come 00:03:45.550 --> 00:03:47.890 to a consensus on what you want to do. 00:03:47.890 --> 00:03:50.470 We had a lot of mini-- the reason we-- 00:03:50.470 --> 00:03:53.070 we had a lot more mini games to begin with than when we ended, 00:03:53.070 --> 00:03:56.790 and it was good that we met early and decided what to cut 00:03:56.790 --> 00:03:58.390 and what to include. 00:03:58.390 --> 00:04:02.620 And that helped us work towards one common path. 00:04:07.100 --> 00:04:10.760 Working with the client was very interesting. 00:04:10.760 --> 00:04:15.640 We met him two, three, four, or five maybe, almost five times, 00:04:15.640 --> 00:04:16.800 I think it was. 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.949 We've met him a lot and interacting 00:04:18.949 --> 00:04:19.990 with him was interesting. 00:04:19.990 --> 00:04:21.880 The first time we met him was where 00:04:21.880 --> 00:04:26.410 he did a lot of demonstrations was, sort of, I guess, 00:04:26.410 --> 00:04:29.570 showed us more what we were supposed to be aiming for, 00:04:29.570 --> 00:04:31.330 because it was a very social interaction, 00:04:31.330 --> 00:04:32.882 very deep interaction. 00:04:32.882 --> 00:04:35.340 And that I think the goal of our games is to be a bit more, 00:04:35.340 --> 00:04:37.100 is to be really deep while also appearing 00:04:37.100 --> 00:04:39.750 to be very just playful. 00:04:39.750 --> 00:04:46.119 And he also helped us when we were going on our art reworks, 00:04:46.119 --> 00:04:48.660 that he was suggesting, like, maybe you should look at these. 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:50.070 You should look more at towards this type 00:04:50.070 --> 00:04:52.570 of the culture, this part of the culture or this part. 00:04:52.570 --> 00:04:53.750 And that was very nice. 00:04:53.750 --> 00:04:55.415 That's the sort of interacting. 00:04:59.420 --> 00:05:01.940 The class has been actually really fun. 00:05:01.940 --> 00:05:03.740 It's a lot of work. 00:05:03.740 --> 00:05:05.210 But it's a lot of interesting work, 00:05:05.210 --> 00:05:06.960 because once you see the game-- I actually 00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:09.600 hadn't seen the final builds we had until today, 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.310 and it was like, this actually is really-- 00:05:13.310 --> 00:05:16.060 I had written the dialogue separately, so I was just 00:05:16.060 --> 00:05:17.790 looking at the art assets. 00:05:17.790 --> 00:05:20.080 And it was very nice to see everything come together 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:24.970 in one nice build of, here's the game you helped make.