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App pitch

Today I showed my pitch for my new app game idea in a focus group.

The App

I will first explain my original idea of the game.

It involved having to use the rotation feature on the device to match up two bars, which once match you would have to press a green button in the center of the screen while keeping the bars in same position to complete the stage/level. You have 60 seconds to do as many stages/levels as you can with the difficulty rising as the game starts throwing in effects which will make the game harder to play. Things such as making the center button and bars smaller, giving the wheel an illusive effect which will disorientate the player and in higher stages use more mentally challenging tricks such as flipping the screen, forcing the player to play backwards or upside down.

The Pitch

I got many ideas, suggestions, complaints and more about the game.

1 of the first ideas given was if later in the game there would be multiple bars to match up. This would be an interesting idea it but would require me to add another feature to the game, being able to select which bar you want to move which could simply be done by tapping onto the bar.

1 complaint I had was that the splash screen did not look natural or smooth like the photo on the left and was hard to read. While most of the graphics weren't final it was still good feedback.

2 people mentioned that the game could be themed to look like a lock cracking scene which was 1 of the thoughts I had before showing the pitch so it shows the idea was commonly thought. Knowing that people liked the lock idea I think it may be a good idea once I redesign it to call the game something more fitting such as "Lock Break".

Research

Logo

Today I finished creating my logo for my (fictional) company "Adams Trade".

To make the unique shape in the middle I put a letter T which I made myself by distorting and editing a capital letter T above the letter A which was also made through editing.

I then put a circle above the T to make it look like a person/stick figure however it didn't look so appealing standing upright so I decided rotating it would be a good idea. I used rulers to line up everything dead centre of the square I made to have the black text have a white background making it stand out even more.

Once I was done with the square and text, the top left of the square seemed a bit empty to me so I decided to add a quarter circle to fill in the space while looking interesting.

The main thing objective I gave myself while making the logo was to make it bold and interesting yet simple.

The only colours used are black and white which together stand out and are hard to dislike as they are not colours. Most big sites have white backgrounds, such as Google, YouTube, Ebay, Amazon and etc.

File Formats

Today I finished my 2 page Image File Formats magazine project.

I started off having to research the multiple image formats online and deiced to talk about the most used 4 image formats, PNG, BMP, JPEG and GIF.

Once I was done researching I had to make this data into a magazine so naturally I decided to use Abode InDesign for this as it's a program meant for developing magazines, leaflets and other formal paper based products. I decided to use the image icons Windows 7 uses for decoration as they should be well known for Window users.