Today I had my first class of my new semester, and I had a great deal of new experiences to go with it. I was put in a group with other students who I didn’t initially know, they were all boys and I was the only girl, though Lisa my notetaker joined me. Their names were Dillon, Aaron, Kieran, Shane and Zakk. We were asked to make a game with a simple concept that covered the theme of being unstable. However we were also told to not make it with complex AI or a first person horror game,
I helped out a good bit with the idea stage of the exercise, telling the boys to write down teenage rebellion and distant future with their list of other concept genres, and we ended up making a pretty big list.
We then had to cut down our ideas to just three, and we ended up with a balane game, a drunk racing game, and a hack and slash game. the hack and slash game was scrapped so we had to choose between the balance game and the racing one. I found the racing one to be a bit more fun than the balance game, so we went with the racing game and started developing that concept. I contributed to the ideas my team were coming up with by showing them racing and autorun games like Mario Kart 64 and 2 fast 4 Gnomz.