Day Two - Blue Sky Activities

Today we had quite a few Blue Sky activities. For the first one, as soon as I walked into class, I was given a rice cake, which to me seemed more like a Styrofoam coaster than food. The assignment was called "Not for Breakfast" and we had to come up with game ideas, mine are as follows:

• How many rice cakes can you eat in 30 seconds?

• Make a rice cake!

• Stack the rice cakes without knocking over the stack.

• Throw stale rice cakes at the enemy.

• Roll the rice cakes to the goal.

• Make a car out of rice cakes.

For the next blue sky activity, I got together with Marshall, Andrew, and Joe with the task of trying to find a way to reduce homelessness if we were one of three people. We chose Barbara Walters and came up with the following:

• Everyone she interviews, she would ask for a donation.

• She knows how to talk with a group of woman about current events.

• She'll ask for donations on her talk show.

• She will interview homeless people about their way of life.

• Get the homeless problem lots of television time.

• She will sway the populous to help the homeless.

• She will become a professional wrestler (not sure what this has to do with the homeless).

• She will create a television special for the homeless.

• As a professional wrestler, she will hire all the professional wrestlers to promote helping the homeless.

• She will wrestle “homelessness”.

• She will make a telethon for the homeless.

The final Blue Sky activity was done with Chaz, and was to take a single topic and come up with a game idea from that topic. We chose the topic of Gravity and came up with the following:

You will pick an object and a height. The object will drop from that height. There will be obstacles in the way, and the player will have to avoid them. The goal is to try to avoid the obstacles so the object can reach terminal velocity. At the end, a parachute will come out of the object, regardless of the object. The lower the terminal velocity of the object, the more obstacles there will be. There will be an item that randomly spawns that will speed up the object's velocity so it reaches terminal velocity sooner. There will also be an item that randomly spawns that will allow the player to collide with an obstacle without losing, but you will lose speed and the game will take longer. After the object reaches terminal velocity and the parachute appears, the player must guide the object to a certain spot. A variety of different gravities can be chosen. The player will have the option to make their own objects. Aerodynamics will have to be taken into account in order to determine the terminal velocity of the object.

Afterwards, I got together with Andrew to come up with ideas for the game we will present. I will post the details of that in the next post.