Platform Art

So I was in charge of making the platform logo and art style. For the time being I decided to make a simple typographic logo for our Oasis platform.

I wanted it to be simple and elegant, having the curve along the bottom represents that it is based around washing your hands or the fluid nature of water that it is essential to the hand washing process.

For the body text if you will, I decided to use the same font from the logo - Kozuka Gothic Pro. I wanted the simple microsoft windows-esque approach. But I also wanted to give the platform personality. I designed the intro to the final playtest with that in mind.

Hopefully there will be a playable version available in this blog in the near future!

Game Ideas and Updates

Since the time we started working on the game, Run!, we have come up with two more game ideas and tinkered with our first.

All three games will now have an animal and nature theme, to keep the characters and game gender neutral. So everyone can enjoy them!

Game one will now be a rabbit getting chased by a bird. Yes they have names, but I have forgotten them.

Game two will involve the player washing their hands to help pull a cute little monkey up the screen to escape the enemy venus fly trap below. 

Game three will consist of the player washing their hands quickly to shake a tree that has an enemy trying to rest on top of it. (Something of that nature)

Aside from the game ideas, we have also set our user interactivity with the game to work with three scenarios for washing hands. All other steps people take would probably mean they aren't trying to play the game.

Updated Game Ideas

So a lot has changed since the last post. We are now going with a game called Run! 

This is a 2D sidescroller, a very simple game. Basically, there is the main character that you control and an enemy ai chasing him. The goal is to keep running left away from the enemy until you escape his reach. The faster you wash your hands, the faster your character will run!

This level is pretty much one large level. It's 4200px wide and 700 in height. There will be parallaxing background images to provide a more dynamic environment. Here's a chart showing the sizes that each background element will be.

The reason we switched from a left/right control to a control based off your hand washing speed is because it's a more natural movement while also making the user wash their hands more extensively. I'll update more later!