Process for Project Two

Facilitate Play

For this project, we were required to collaborate in a group to design a game that could be easily understood through the instructions provided without any help from us, the game creators. 

My team created a game called "Song Smith," in which players would have to change the lyrics of a well known song to fit a topic that they dealt. This took a lot of brainstorming on our part, and we all worked together in order to come up with songs to use in the game, as well as topics and descriptions that would be fun or funny to sing about. 

Coming up with the name of our game ended up being my responsibility, and "song smith" ended up being a play on "wordsmith," which the rest of the team thought was pretty clever. 

Grace designed the perfect logo, which used word bubbles that housed our title and looked like a cute little conversation or, in our case, people singing to one another.

Laser cutting the box with our logo ended up being a bit of a challenge, as most of our group was out of town during the break. Sam ended up taking the box to the laser cutter, which was set too deep and burned through the original lid of the box. Since most of us were out of town, Sam had to think quickly on her feet of a way to fix the box. She ended up using a separate piece of birch, laser cutting the logo into that, and then fastening that piece onto the top of our wooden box with wood glue and sanding the edges so it was flush with the box. 

Our visual representation of how to play the game ended up being a collaboration between Jennifer and I. We decided early on that we wanted icons of ourselves to be included in the instructions of how to play the game, so I created these icons (seen above). Jennifer then applied these icons to an instruction sheet that fit into the bottom of the box.

Jenny came up with the design for the cards. We wanted them to be simplistic, so she referenced the designs for other card games like Apples to Apples. It was important that she used the logo on these cards as well, which she applied to the back of the cards in different colors. 

All of these elements were tied together by our color scheme of Pantone's 2016 colors of the year: Serenity and Rose Quartz.