week#: Who did what?

Name	Responsibilities
Aouatef Ben-Mekki	MindMap content, Persona
Alexa Schlegel	MindMap creation, first idea description
Nizar Ben-Sassi	MindMap content, project description
Stephen Prochnow	MindMap content, project description

Project

After we collected a bunch of ideas, we had to identify the aspects we want to implement:

Game Idea: Time-O-Waster (Working Title)

We want to give people the possibility to bypass the time they are waiting at train stations, queues at points of interests or simply fight boredom, we created a persona to support our scenario:

Björn goes shopping with his girlfriend. She wants to buy new shoes but does not have a specific pair in mind and searches for the right ones in all the business the Alexa shopping mall has to offer. Björn would rather sit in a pub and watch a soccer game with his friends. He has no interest in any store and went for her to the mall, he is bored to death.

We decided to take the gaming aspect of the Dodge Ball idea, the simple interaction scheme of throwing an virtual ball at targets and the power-ups from the racing game to add some nice visual effects and challenges. The virtual postcard lacks interaction capabilities but it's a nice feature to give the player an achievement for completing the game.

The foundation for our display is an interactive 3D-Break-Out, where you have to hit a number of panels till you uncover a specific picture. After the whole picture is uncovered the user gets a reward.

Key-Features:

• Innovative user attraction
• Easy to pick up controls, no instructions needed
• Precise controls for hitting targets
• Communicate the goal of the game without sound

BrainStorming

We started our brain storming with all kinds of cool ideas, we gonna give a short description of  the ideas:

Racing Game

• Control a racing car with your hands, like you would do in a real car
• Activate power-ups (e.g. boost or jump) with gestures

Google Maps

• Navigate in Google Maps in a "Minority Report" fashion (Youtube)
• Get information about your surroundings (e.g. next places of interest, stores, navigation)
• Get the information to your phone over Q-R-Codes

DodgeBall

• Play DodgeBall against the computer
• You have to hit certain areas to gain points
• You have to evade the enemy balls or you will lose lifes

Fruit Ninja

• Kinect implementation of the mobile game Fruit Ninja
• Use the side of you hand as sword or hold an imaginary sword in your hand

Virtual Postcards

• You are visiting a city but the weather is awful!
• Take pictures of yourself in front of nearby points of interest

About Us

Welcome to the project blog of our group. Let me introduce us!
Nizar Ben-Sassi Computer Science, TU Berlin, loves programming, really a hands-on person, full of ideas and realistic about it
Alexa Schlegel Computer Science, FU Berlin, loves drawing and bright colours, likes organising things and talking to people on the street
Aouatef Ben-Mekki Computer Science, TU Berlin, doing things fast and in an efficient way
Stephen Prochnow Computer Science, TU Berlin, full of ideas, likes unix more than windows, pushing things forward