Design Summary:

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Challenge: Design an alt controller and a game designed to use it. Make the controller the core of the gameplay experience.​

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Core Player Skills:

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1. Puzzle-Solving

Players must decipher the correct input combination by solving on-screen visual-based puzzles.

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2. Teamwork

Players must work together to activate the correct inputs on the controller. Since the controller is large, more than two hands are needed, thus enforcing teamwork.

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Game Pillars:

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1. The controller needed to feel BIG and interactable.

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Design Solution:

Interactivity: buttons, wires, colours, shapes, magnet maze.

Size: largeness and awkward shapes adds challenge to gameplay.
 

2. The majority of gameplay action needed to happen off the screen.

 

Design Solution:

Controller: bulk of gameplay involves physically  navigating around controller to reach its inputs.
 

3. The game needed to feel as fun to watch as it was to play.

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Design Solution:

Logic Puzzles: Audience can participate in solving on-screen symbol puzzles.

Controller: Watching players navigate around big, awkward controller is funny.

Timer: gives audience and players a sense of urgency.

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