No. 3

 

Take a picture to immortalize your visit to to see the world's most famous painting. Share your favorite photos with your friends! 

"Remember, this is how you'll look forever!"

  

Controls: 

Arrow Keys  to Move

X  to Snap a Photo

  

Postmortem:

This week the prompt was crowded. After having a disappointing clone, the previous week, I decided to go all out with this one. I based the game off my own experience visiting the Mona Lisa. It really wasn’t that small to be honest, but the crowd was intensely smelly and pushy. So, I wanted to capture my experience of taking a picture with this aggressive crowd and such a tiny painting. I originally didn’t have a score because the quality of photo should serve as its own score, but people wouldn’t try to get a better photo, so Bennett showed me a way to calculate the score by measuring how many pixels of the painting were being covered. For a redesign I would put the player inside the crowd and give the player a prompt to take another photo. My takeaway from this how different and avant guard types of games can still use very game-like things such as score to encourage the player to keep playing, effectively using the play vocabulary we have built up over the decades.