PRP - Fourth artefact design

Well the design work is under way and it is going pretty well, even though I'm still struggling with the coding I am slowly making good progress. As you can see in the image below the current state of the game is just a basic matching pairs game with no sound, buttons, levels or animations. As I previously said that I wanted to add an incentive to the game to give the child encouragement to continue to playing I decided to opted for positive sound effects and animation.



I have kept the same 6x6 grid (something to possibly change at a later stage) so they only have to make eight matches.

Having to think about how to give the child positive feedback in a digital form was quite hard. Having already decided that a simple animation would be placed at the end of the game I had to think about how to draw the children to carry on playing. The only solution that I could think about was using sounds. When the child made a match they would receive a positive sound, and if no match then a negative sound.



Finding the sounds was the easy part it was the animation that was the most time-consuming. I had to create a new scene because there were a lot of tweens, also having the animation on a separate scene made the flash layout easier to understand and locate things.

I had to also consider what animation to design as I did not want to make an animation that would be more appealing towards the girls or the boys. Thanks to my housemates advice I chose to go for balloons, like a party. After many hours of creating balloons I managed to complete the animation and place it in the coding.

I've tested it and it all works well, the next phase is put it to the real test...the children.