Sunday, March 10, 2013

Final Comments on Mad Ninja!

Well, everyone really seemed to enjoy playing Mad Ninja!. At the end of it all, Justin, Hirah, Roshni and I were able to work together to create a unique, fun and fast-paced game. Though our game was a success, it we did encounter a few minor problems: Looking back over our experiences developing the game, it was a bit difficult to schedule meetings where all of the group members were available. This was more of an issue due to scheduling conflicts than it was a problem with motivation on the part of the group members. There were no fights, no drama...everyone was willing to work hard, and were sure to remain open to all ideas and feedback from their fellow students. In addition to strong collaboration skills, the work needed to make our game a reality was fairly easily spread evenly over the four of us.

All in all, I think it's safe to call our game a job well done!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Finishing Touches!


This week we worked on finishing up our card game and making sure that it was good to go on Wednesday.  Our group met up three times this week to make the finishing touches on the cards, to solve any problems that we had with the flow of the game, to create the final cards, and play the game ourselves. Although it was stressful and overwhelming when one little detail became a problem and we would have to rethink the fundamentals of the game, we were able to pull through and get almost everything sorted out. One main issue that kept arising was that the game either became too complicated or too boring so we had to find a good balance. We found that one of the hardest things about game design was learning to compromise and realizing that we can't please everyone in terms of rules and methods. Apart from some differences, all of us knew that the main objective of game design was to make sure the player has a good time and would want to continue playing. In terms of achieving this, our group did a fairly well job and we just expect that it all goes well on Wednesday. Let the battles begin? We think YES!