Category: Process

SG Cultural Festivals: Digital Illustrations progress

SG Cultural Festivals: sketches

Sketches for some of the different cultural festivals in Singapore.

From top (left to right):
1 & 2: Chinese New Year
3 & 4: Hari Raya Puasa
5: Deepavali
6: Dumpling/ Dragonboat Festival (Duanwu Jie)
7: Hari Raya Haji
8: Mid-Autumn

SG Cultural Festivals: map mock up

SG Cultural Festival board game map

To be able to know how the map would look like, I did a rough sketch up of it with different colour markers to indicate what it is. The background would be a Singapore map since this is about Singapore cultural festivals.

Yellow represents the information about the cultural festivals or myths. Blue represents the food eaten, pink represents the decorations displayed or hang and green represents the traditional costumes worn.

 

Gameplay:

Each player will be allocated a character based on their draw and different characters will be allocated a certain amount of coins. Each player will take turns to roll the dice. When a player lands on a coloured spot, he will draw the card with the colour as the board.

For the yellow dot, the player only can only draw only one card to get to know the information of the festival.

For the blue, pink and green dot, the player can pick three cards. From the three cards, the player will choose one card to purchase from. The remaining two cards will be returned to the bottom of the deck.
As different characters have different ranks, the highest ranks would have to pay 5 coins more, the middle ranks would have to pay 2 coins more and the lowest ranks would just need to pay as stated.

The game will continue till everyone reaches the finish line.

The winner is determined by having the most number of points from the cards that he/ she collected. If in a situation there is a tie between two or more players, the player with cards of the most variations will win.

Interactive Narrative: Revised Plot

Confetti by Korokoro from the Noun Project

Confetti by Korokoro from the Noun Project

Beginning:
You and your friends are travelers exploring Singapore’s cultural festivals which are celebrated all year round.

Middle:
Discover the beauty of Singapore’s unique multicultural festivals and immerse yourself in the festive environments. Find out about the meaning of the festival celebrated, taste the unique varieties of food, the do’s and don’ts (customs), the types of clothing worn and meet different people.

End:
You will better understand the different cultures and also your own culture too. Not only that, you will discover many things you did not know about.

Interactive Narrative: Process and Concept of topic

Confetti by Korokoro from the Noun Project

Confetti by Korokoro from the Noun Project

Solo Project

Topic:
Festivals

Ideation/ concept:
Singapore is a multi-racial society and many different festivals are celebrated here. As the digital age bombards us, we do not interact with each other so often. Many times we do not interact with other races but rather hang out with friends of the same races. I want to create more awareness about how each race celebrates their festivals so that younger people will be able to understand each other cultures.

Plot:
Beginning – Introducing Singapore culture in general. Gameplay rules.

Middle – Introducing the festivals: Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali, Christmas, etc. in details.
The do’s and don’ts, food, clothing and customs.

End – ?

Technology:
1. Draggable background, image hovering/ parallax scrolling in the inner pages
2. Physical board game

Inspiration:
Out my window, universe within, the everyday projects, the production kitchen