Chicopee Games Inc.

Chicopee Games Inc. proudly present our final game screens:

Here are the new characters we already talked about. Enjoy!

Colour versions of these are comming up soon.

During the Christmas Holiday every member of Chicopee Games Inc. had time to think about our game “Who the f*** is?”. Some of us where working in the game layout, others on the characters. So we took the opportunity today to meet and discuss all the new ideas and concepts concerning the game.

It was really a useful meeting and we were able to work on all the quests of previous lesions that we haven’t been able to solve yet. As an example we can declare that we now have a consensus on the characters – the new ones that will be posted soon are created by Lisa. Furthermore we agreed on a general layout for the documentation, divided the tasks needed for creating it and made plans for the ultimate presentation.

So now we have most of the screens of our game and also most of the knowledge. As I already announced, pictures and screens will be following soon.

During the next days and weeks everyone of Chicopee Games Inc. will be working on his or her tasks. We have to make some more Usability Tests and together try to form an accurate budget.

After this productive meeting today, we are all convinced that finalising the progress in the given time is possible.

This week we had to use the gameflow evaluation matrix to score another game and afterwards "Who the f*** is?" so that we could see the things we could work on, the aspects that are missing and so on.

Chicopee Games Inc. were testing the “facebook” application “Geo Challenge” because our game will be working similar in some ways. We found out that it is working quite well [which is obviously why it is so popular]. However that comparison of your games helped us to understand the difficulties of an online game, such as these “facebook” applications.

Even though it supports the competition between the players, because of the unobtrusively visible score, it appears not as a game which supports cooperation between the gamers. We know we probably won’t be able to change that fact for “Who the f*** is?”. Therefore we were thinking of a new way to create some kind of social interaction between the users. Our plan is to manage some sort of “Live-Challenge” where two participants get the same quests and are really playing against each other.

Coming up next week:
New pics an sketches

This is our sketch for the storyboard. It is there to show the action which tkes place in the game - and all the steps is makes while playing "Who the f*** is?"

During the last weeks Chicopee Games Inc. worked on the screen design and layout of “Who the f*** is?”. Furthermore we discussed the logo and an overall design theme for the game. We now proudly present some possible characters which show the style we are taking for our project.
We believe that this form of illustration will separate us from the already existing facebook applications.

We also started to work on the famous people; researching their lives and creating hints for the different levels. By next lesson we have planned to collect enough questions about 15 to 20 people, including Marie Curie and J.F.K.

In today's lesson, during the gathering of our group we presented our ideas for the design and characters to each other. We decided to make more sketches for the selected theme until next session.

Furthermore Chicopee Games Inc. was conferring about the point system of the game and the level stages as well. For that we had to spend quite some time but we can happily declare that after all we were able to find a logic structure.

FOR THE GAMER:
“Who the f*** is…” is a quiz game where you have to guess a historical person on the basis of given tips. The less tips you need, the more points you can earn.
Play now to get your own “Who the f*** is…” ranking and compare high scores with friends and other players worldwide!

FOR THE PUBLISHER:
“Who the f*** is…” is a quiz game on Facebook where especially students can prove and improve their knowledge about historical people like Einstein on the basis of given tips. Afterwards they can compare their results with other players worldwide!

GAME LOGO:
Comming soon...

We were very lucky to talk about our game concept with an intelligent colleague of us. Even though he uses the platform facebook, he is not one of the users who take part in the game applications – at least he refuses to play most of them.
However, his thoughts about “who the f*** is ?” were very positive and helpful. We kindly appreciate his ideas and continue on our way of planning the game.

We proudly present: Who the f** is?

WORKING TITLE: Who the f** is?
GENRE: quiz [puzzle] game
PLATFORM: web [facebook.com application]
TARGET AUDIENCE: probably 18 – 35

THE STORY:
“Who the f** is?” is based on the game idea of “Wer bin ich?”. In the game the player gets clues about a famous person [historical character] and has to choose the correct one of some possibilities. The game will start easy with enough time to give the right answer but each lever is going to be more difficult and tricky.

LEARNING OUTCOME:
We know that applications like this one are very popular and are played by a lot of people – male and female. So be believe that the players will get knowledge about important people of the past and present and therefore useful facts about history, art, science and politics. It is also the game challenge that will hopefully make the game interesting for new players.