In my heart-of-hearts, I would really like to explore the creative options that the player is allotted in this game. However, the thing that’s really stopping me from exploring these options is the randomness of two of the three tools—Boom and Bop. Bam is a tool the player has a relatively high amount of control over; by selecting Bam, any point that is clicked on the canvas will create a colorful target shape, allowing the player to create a pattern of targets if they so please. However, with Boom and Bop, the player’s control over what happens is very limited. The player’s control is essentially bounded by where the player clicks on the canvas, but what happens next is well out of the player’s control. I feel like this one oddity, Bam, throws the game off a bit, in that the player has a high amount of control compared to the other two functions. It’s not necessarily destructive to the game itself, but it does mess with the organization of the game—that organization being complete and utter randomness (aside from the player’s control of where said randomness occurs on the canvas). I don’t believe changing this aspect of the game would be too difficult, and I think that making the target’s size randomly vary would bring back that sort of “random organization” that the rest of the game is filled with. Perhaps, in addition, the colors of the target could be randomized, just like how both Boom and Bap have randomized colors.
This drawing tool is definitely full of uncertainty when I play it for the first time. I was trying to discover the four buttons on the top of the canvas (Boom, Bam, Bop, Pow) and see what they can do. I was surprised when I clicked on each one of them. I wasn’t quite sure what these sound phrases meant in the first place. I was really shocked to see Bam and Pow. Bam creates a target-like circular graphic once I click on it (almost looks like an explosion with the sound effect “bam”); Pow is erasing the entire canvas to a blank page (like everything just puffs away with the sound effect “pow”). These visual feedback definitely help me to understand what is going on with the drawing tool. I tried to create a face with the tool: Boom brush for the facial details, Bam brush for the eyes, and Bop brush for the hair. It diverged from my expectations because some brush strokes showed up immediately once I clicked on their buttons. It twisted my perspective for a face a little bit. I believe there is some randomness in the Bop brush. Different shapes of polygons appear in a random order with different shades of colors. I think this brush add-on the uncertainty of the entire drawing tool. In addition, I believe there is some hidden information in the Boom brush. The color of the bush varies based on where it landed on the canvas. For example, all the brush marks on the center of the left edge are blue whereas the brush marks on the upper right corner are purple.
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Prompt 2
In my heart-of-hearts, I would really like to explore the creative options that the player is allotted in this game. However, the thing that’s really stopping me from exploring these options is the randomness of two of the three tools—Boom and Bop. Bam is a tool the player has a relatively high amount of control over; by selecting Bam, any point that is clicked on the canvas will create a colorful target shape, allowing the player to create a pattern of targets if they so please. However, with Boom and Bop, the player’s control over what happens is very limited. The player’s control is essentially bounded by where the player clicks on the canvas, but what happens next is well out of the player’s control. I feel like this one oddity, Bam, throws the game off a bit, in that the player has a high amount of control compared to the other two functions. It’s not necessarily destructive to the game itself, but it does mess with the organization of the game—that organization being complete and utter randomness (aside from the player’s control of where said randomness occurs on the canvas). I don’t believe changing this aspect of the game would be too difficult, and I think that making the target’s size randomly vary would bring back that sort of “random organization” that the rest of the game is filled with. Perhaps, in addition, the colors of the target could be randomized, just like how both Boom and Bap have randomized colors.
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Prompt 4
This drawing tool is definitely full of uncertainty when I play it for the first time. I was trying to discover the four buttons on the top of the canvas (Boom, Bam, Bop, Pow) and see what they can do. I was surprised when I clicked on each one of them. I wasn’t quite sure what these sound phrases meant in the first place. I was really shocked to see Bam and Pow. Bam creates a target-like circular graphic once I click on it (almost looks like an explosion with the sound effect “bam”); Pow is erasing the entire canvas to a blank page (like everything just puffs away with the sound effect “pow”). These visual feedback definitely help me to understand what is going on with the drawing tool. I tried to create a face with the tool: Boom brush for the facial details, Bam brush for the eyes, and Bop brush for the hair. It diverged from my expectations because some brush strokes showed up immediately once I clicked on their buttons. It twisted my perspective for a face a little bit. I believe there is some randomness in the Bop brush. Different shapes of polygons appear in a random order with different shades of colors. I think this brush add-on the uncertainty of the entire drawing tool. In addition, I believe there is some hidden information in the Boom brush. The color of the bush varies based on where it landed on the canvas. For example, all the brush marks on the center of the left edge are blue whereas the brush marks on the upper right corner are purple.