First, moment of silence and appreciation for all the game designers out there. You people are heroes.
Here’s the link to Mine and Manar’s digital narrative game.
Few points worth mentioning:
- It took us a a lot of time to come up with the scenarios. It took us a whole lot more to put the idea of the symbols to use. Google Forms is not made for this, so it was an added hassle. (No offense to Google)
- The name of the game is undecided yet.
- We wanted to have different conclusions for the different scenarios but we ran out of time. We put a general final conclusion page but I suppose we will be refining that further
- I can already spot some weak points after I’ve previewed the game a few times, but I’ll hold my judgement till I receive feedback from others.
- Some slides which were supposed to have statistics and information are empty, we will still add the data to them, but we know for a fact that this section will have info
- We’re still working on visuals. I do realize that the game lacks colors.
- Some scenarios have a conclusion which is kind of abrupt, need help with that as well.
- Also the call for action links weren’t placed yet, although we plan to have them somewhere in the conclusion
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Hi!!! (Again~)
Just finished playing through the prototype of your game and I want to say that I think it has a lot of potential. I liked the choices I had to make–they’re very “between a rock and a hard place”. Like, neither answer is ideal. I think that captures the reality of the situation you’re trying to bring awareness to with your work.
I wish you could incorporate pictures with your symbols on them (can you do that in Google forms??? If so, that might be a way to work around not being able to input the actual new text you’ve created into the form). For example, I think it would communicate your point all that much more to have a sample of what the children’s homework looks like to the illiterate mother. Like, just how much of it can she not interpret or understand?
Other than the image thing, I think the structure of your game is effective. It’s communicating just how difficult it is to navigate life when you can’t “read” life.
I’m excited to see a more finished prototype or the final product! 🙂
Best of luck,
Kelli~
@helterskelliter
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Thank you so much for your feedback and for trying the game. I agree that more pictures will make the game more “playable” and I sure will do so very soon.
I want to link things like for example if the game player is female and decides to join a literacy class then she can see the same things that her children were learning and can then make connections.
Hopefully by Thursday you’ll see a more polished version. 🙂
Thank you once again for the help!
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