Saturday 10 October 2015

Yet another drawing game

As the homework for  Introduction to Game Design Coursera course I adapted my first drawing game to be a two-player game.
You and another candidate are trying to join the Graffiti101 class.
You have a canvas of an A4 piece of paper.  If you don't have a die to hand go to https://www.random.org/dice/
You may have to compete or collaborate with this other person and you take turns to play. You get 5 marks each in total to make your drawing and incorporate the other player's 5 marks into your drawings as well.

But first, you have to know what you are each going to draw? Throw a die each.
Die roll
1
2
3
4
5
6
Player 1
Person
Person
Vehicle
Vehicle
Building
Building
Player 2
Person
Vehicle
Building
Vehicle
Person
Building



For each turn you make depending on your score – draw the mark in the canvas incorporating the other player's marks.
Die roll
1
2
3
4
5
6
Draw:
Line
Square
Triangle
Circle
Dot
Squiggle



Drawings of #rdguk architecture

It is Architecture Drawing Day by RIBA and @thebigdraw
I thought I'd do a roundup of some Reading drawings I have made over the past year or two.

The bank at Market Place

The George Inn


The Blade

A house in Reading

Market place

Oxfam bookshop back when it was blue

Reading weir


Demolition crane

National savings bank

Church in St Mary's butts

Peeping into Caversham Court Gardens

Day when a bus stop arrived in Market Place

Rising sun arts centre

Market Place

Pau Brasil

Reading from the car park

Doorway

Building no more 

Building in Reading

Outside St Laurence

Broad Street

Sunday 4 October 2015

I made a drawing game

As part of the Introduction to Game Design Coursera course, I made up a couple of games. This one is a drawing game.

Cavepainting-101 It is pre-historic times - you are at an interview for the guild of cave-painters and are very nervous. You have been left alone and asked to use no more than 10 marks to draw a representation of a person before the angry-looking boss Thugg comes back to decide if you are good enough.
You really want this job because the other option is hunting animals and you don't know anyone who didn't get hurt doing that. Besides you really want to spend time with your new friend Rakelle who already works there and told you about this opportunity as she also really wants to hang out with you.
Rakelle prepared you for the interview. She gave you a six sided die and told you to throw it 10 times. ( I know what you're thinking – how does she have a die? Well, duh, she's from the future and showed you dice, how to count and how to draw basic shapes. Hopefully, she will teach you even more including time-travel if you get the job.)

Concentrate! Back to the interview:
She said, for each mark you make (you only have ten)

  • if you roll a 1 – then draw a line 
  •  If you roll a 2 – then draw a square shape
  • if you roll a 3 – then draw a triangle shape
  • if you roll a 4 – then draw a circle
  • if you roll a 5 – then draw a dot
  • if you roll a 6 – then draw a squiggle.
Hurry now! Before the boss gets back.

Throw the die, draw the shape suggested by the die and throw it again for the next mark – aiming for a person-like drawing in 10 moves. If you don't have a die to hand go to https://www.random.org/dice/ 

Hope you get the job and learn lots with Rakelle.


Here's my masterpiece - did I get the job? Want to apply yourself? Then submit your drawing.