Zookeeper: Homework

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Zookeeper Homework

• How many sounds are there in Zookeepers game
  mode?
• Do you think the sound feedback matters? Why? Why
  not?
• Which one sound do you think is the most
  important one?

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Zookeeper Sounds

• I found some 15

• Marking
• Shifting places
• Scoring
• Cumulative scoring
• All-of-a-kind scoring
• Angry animal
• No more move
• Running out of time
• Level done
• Level up

• Animals fall down onto new level
• Game over animals run away
• Mouse-over options
• Pause (actually the same as angry animal late
  fix?
• Background music

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Group Project No. 1Dragons Gold

• Sus Lundgren

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In Short

• Task/problem To create a GUI for an online
  version of the board game Dragons Gold.
• Aim To practice visualization of objects and
  their state. To practice on how to transfer
  natural interaction to interaction through a
  graphic user interface.
• Deliverables A prototype, a project report and
  an oral presentation
• Deadline Project presentations on the 28/9,
  deadline for project report 30/9 at 12.00.
• Value 60 points

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The Game

• You play adventurers

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The Game

• Who kill dragons for their treasures
• Goal To cooperate with others to kill dragons
  but to negotiate well with them in order to
  collect the most valuable treasure for yourself!

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Grading

• The project is worth 60 points
• Visualizing objects and their state 20
• Logic in how the objects are placed and colored,
  continuity 15Interaction what interaction
  possibilities are there? Are they easy to
  understand. Do they feel natural? 20
• Look feel 5
• The adaptation to the users affect the above
  parts, take this into account when you design!
• The project report and the oral presentation
  arent worth any points per se, but will affect
  the grading

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Focus

• Interface design
• Visualizing natural objects, showing state
• Solving not-so-usual interaction problems,
• Negotiation on time
• Interaction design
• Transferring the natural interaction with
  physical objects to screen-based interaction

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Demands

• The size of the application may not exceed 1024 x
  768 pixels.
• The application should be made for users having
  access to a screen, a keyboard, not-so-good
  speakers and some kind of mouse or other pointing
  device.
• The application language shall be English, but
  the users may not be native English speakers.
• The application should support anything from
  three to six players.
• The application should support the original
  rules however small changes are allowed, e.g.
  prolonging the negotiation time

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The Users

• People who like playing games
• Aged 20 - 50, mostly men from all over the
  industrialized world.
• Quite computer literate they know their ways
  around Windows and Word and Excel and such
  programs pretty well.
• Some 20 of them have their own website.
• The online game will be played for recreation,
  mostly at home in the evenings, but also when
  taking a break at work.
• It is expected that almost 80 of the users have
  played the board game before playing the game
  online.

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Dont

• Do not consider how to implement the consequences
  of the special cards just consider how to show
  if a player has cards, and which ones, and when
  and how to play them.
• Do not consider any login procedures
• Do not consider how to implement the Market card.
  
• Do not consider what a possible Help and
  Rules-part should look like
• Do not consider the problems you can get if
  different players have different connections
  ignore problems with lag, disconnects etc.

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Deliver

• An oral presentation made to the rest of the
  class (28/9)
• Ten minutes five for questions
• A partly interactive prototype showing how your
  GUI works (30/9)
• Flash, Shockwave, HTML, any kind of programming
  or whatever, as long as its clickable and at
  least fakes functionality.
• A project report, written in Swedish or English,
  not exceeding 5000 words (30/9)
• A report consisting of at least one sentence,
  maximum one page explaining the most important
  thing each group member learned during the
  project (30/9)

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Questions?
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The Game

• You play adventurers

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The Game

• Who kill dragons for their treasures
• Goal To cooperate with others to kill dragons
  but to negotiate well with them in order to
  collect the most valuable treasure for yourself!

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The Dragons

• Dragons have three properties
• Their strength (in this case 7)
• Their visible treasure (in this case 4)
• Their hidden treasure (in this case 3)
• Dragons are killed by a group of adventurers
  whose combined strength equal or exceed that of
  the dragon

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On a Players Turn

• There are always four dragons in play
• On a players turn he or she plays one of his or
  her active adventurers next to a dragon
• It is allowed to play more than one adventurer
  onto a dragon (however only one per turn!)

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On a Players Turn

• A dragon dies as soon as the combined strength of
  a group of adventurers equal or exceed that of
  the dragon
• The hidden part of the treasure is revealed
• Its treasure must now be divided!
• If only one players adventureres took part, that
  player gets it all
• Otherwise there is a negotiation

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Negotiation

• The only players who take part are those who
  cooperated to kill that dragon
• If one and only one Magician has taken part, that
  player gets all red stones prior to negotiation
• Then negotiaton begins turn the timer!
• If the time runs out without all players agreeing
  on a deal the treasure vanishes
• The following applies
• All stones must be divided
• Randomization is not allowed
• Only the present stones may be included in a
  deal, e.g. no promises like Next time

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After Negotiation

• Players who played magicians and managed to get
  red stones, draw as many special cards as they
  got red stones, and keep the stones
• Thieves may steal one stone blindly from any
  other player who took part
• Thieves steal in order first played steals first
• If a player has played both a thief and a
  magician the thief steals openlyc
• A new dragon is placed on the table, and the
  stones for his visible treasure are drawn randomly

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After Negotiation

• The players get their adventurers back, but they
  are now inactive
• Placed face down
• A player may only play cards that are
• Active
• Home (i.e. in front of the player and not yet
  played onto a dragon)
• Cards get activated again as soon as all cards in
  front of a player are inactive

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On Special Cards

• You get special cards when your magician helps
  killing a dragon and you manage to get red
  stones
• One card per stone and you may keep the stones
  too
• On the card theres a text saying what effect it
  has and when it is allowed to play it
• You might want to reconsider playing with the
  card called The Invisible Hand
• Cards are played once they are not reusable

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The Market

• The market card lies in the middle of the pile of
  dragon cards
• As soon as it is drawn, the timer is turned
• Players may now trade stones with each other if
  they like

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Game End

• When there are no stones left in the bag, no more
  dragons will be placed on the table
• Remaining dragons are killed, but no hidden
  treasures are revealed players negotiate only
  about the visible treasure
• As soon as the last treasure has been divided the
  game is over

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Scoring

• Metals
• Gold 3 p
• Silver 1 p
• Red 1 p
• Gems
• White, Yellow, Blue, Green, Purple
• 8/10/12 p per majority in each color
• 5 point for a complete set of colors
• The black diamond
• Worth 15 points but the player gets no points for
  gems
• Whoever has the most points wins duuh!

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Questions?
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Group No 1