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Interactive Narrative: Finalised board
I felt that for the game to be more interesting and getting comments from my friends, I decided to add a chance section for people to know the types of do’s and dont’s.
The final look of the board with the different coloured cards.
Interactive Narrative: Progress of the board
I decided to make the map more realistic to fit the over all look and feel of the design. However, I maintained the orange drop shadow on the design elements causing the design to look a little out of place.
I decided to change the drop shadow to match the current map so that they will seem to blend well together with the map.
As the board game involves cards, I decided to add card placements to make it part of the game after speaking to some of my friends.
[Interactive Narratives] Game Review
HerStory – Wikipedia
Herstory is an interactive video game where the player searches through a bunch of video clips from a database of police interviews to solve the case of a missing man, Simon. The clips show a woman, Hannah Smith who is the wife of Simon being interviewed by the police regarding the matter of Simon’s disappearance. The player could type down keywords that they think could lead them to the other video clips to find out more. From there the case would slowly unravel and reveal who the culprit was.
I have always loved playing games or reading books that involves mystery and thrill. Herstory lets me play as a detective trying to solve the mystery of the missing man, Simon. I had to listen attentively to Hannah’s statements. From there I have to pick out keywords so that green boxes will appear on the database. This was to show my progress of the investigation. I enjoyed the parts where the case was starting to make more sense as to why Simon went missing and then was murdered. I was very eager to find out what the ending was and played it for a long period of time. I felt that it was a creative yet challenging game where I had to find out all the clues myself and it felt like a role playing or movie scene.
It was not an easy game since I had to figure out what kinds of keywords I had to type so as to find new footages that I had not watched before. There were many times I had to rewatch the videos multiple times so that I could gather some clues on what keywords I had been missing out on.
I liked that the video showed the investigation scene, so players could experience the environment during the game play. The graphics were quite dull which was a slight turn-off but the content of the whole game made it mind-blowing and I refused to do anything else other than to solve the mystery. It is an addictive game. The controls were easy to navigate as it was just typing keywords and clicking on the videos to watch them.
Overall, I enjoyed the game Herstory as it gives me the opportunity to play from a detective’s perspective. The mystery and thrills of Herstory continues to linger in my thoughts after playing it.
SG Cultural Festivals: Digital Illustrations progress
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- CNY – Lion Dance
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- Mid Autumn
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- Dumpling/ Duanwu
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- Haji
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- Puasa
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- Diwali
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- Christmas
Interactive Narrative: board game map initial
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- map board v1
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- map board v2
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- map board v3
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: game flow/ storyboard
Storyboard/ Game flow
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