Ideation Phase =)

During the last class, Mr, Charles asked us to transfer our ideas of the game into a mind map. We need to choose a genre for the simulation and expand more about the themes that are possible to go together with the genre.

For our group, we pick up adventure as our main theme. In our mind map, there is some sub-genre such as survival and mystery. We  put in 2 sub-genres to make more possibilities that we could expand and eliminate the weaker ideas later. We think that it will be more interesting if there are wars and obstacles so that there will be hunting, war games,investigations or even something like amazing race. We also thought of combining the 2 genres together to create a fun game. Survive by solving mysteries and completing quest or task would be a good way to transform a flat game into a real life simulation.

Whereas for the theme of the game we used super abilities because it is more interactive and appealing. Who wouldn't want super powers which u can fly above the sky, and be invisible so that u can eat or the food in the restaurant without being noticed. Well maybe stealing food is a bad idea. In the real life, there will be no such things as super abilities so why not dream a little bit and equip ourselves with super powers for a few days so that we can have fun. Besides, we also place dimensions as a possibility in our game where there will be different forces and a number of dimensions which have wars with the evil forces. And there will be things happening between the dimension.

Since Mr. Charles didn't check our mind map on that day, we decided to just work with the plan.

Introduction to the Simulation

Mr. Charles gave us a short brief about the group project that we are going to work on for the following weeks. This will be our major project as we need to create a real life simulation game to be carry out during our class trip before the end of semester.

The 3 of us are actually quite lost as we don't know what our background of the game should be and where will it be carry out. Although we are confused about what we need to do now, the ideas about the game starts to pop out and at least having a slight direction about the game will be better then nothing at all.

Muruku Coconut =D

During the first class, Mr. Charles gave us a short brief on the grouping system. He explained the Game rules for grouping and we were told to get into a group of 3. Each group will have a group leader and everyone plays a role in the group as the realist, critic and the dreamer. We need to create a group blog and name after we have our own group. Me ( Seen Ying ), Kokulan and Max formed a group .After a short discussion, I was elected as the leader because I'm the only girl in the group. Max is the dreamer, Kokulan as the critic and I will be the realist. 

I'm pretty sure some of our fellow readers are curious about our group name. Where did we even get the idea of using muruku and coconut as our group name? Well it all started with a random conversation and one of our team mate Mr. Kokulan was being called as coconut due to the pronunciation of his name. And where we got the work muruku? Mr. Max of course. He just pop out the word muruku out of nowhere and we decided to put that into the group name since it goes well with coconut. There it goes, Muruku Coconut.