Week 6 | Notion

Weekly Progress and Highlights

Shifting the our focus towards Blood types and possible integration of blood inheritance

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More on blood types of paternity:

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Relevant visuals for consideration:
Blood type inheritance in term of phenotypes:

	Random brainstorming of possible gameplay
1	[two/ more players] parent-child blood type wheel: randomly spin two wheels for the parent's blood type and connect the possible child blood type bag to the parents
2	[three/ more players] Blood type match game: have three sets of 8 blood type cards, two player pick the parent cards randomly while one player tries to match the child card
3	[two/more players]
have 6 blood bags for the 6 types of blood groups (in term of genotypes), the blood types of the blood bags are unknown. players place any two blood bags on the two sides of the screen to see what is the child's inherited blood group and from trial and error, players are suppose to guess the respective blood group of the unlabelled blood bags. (3 test tubes with syringe to mimic a patient having blood transplant )

How I envision the set up for Option 3 will be:
- Testing out the possibilities
Showing the phenotypes of the child blood types might be better to elevate the gameplay.

Group brainstorming session (17/09/2024)

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A quick prototypes of our envisioned set-up →

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Concept 1 on blood compatibility / blood typing

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← Drafting out the possible ways to enable detection and identification of the different blood types of the blood bags with the same visual.

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Concept 2 on blood inheritance / blood types of off-springs

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Testing out the game play and logic within ourselves.

Finalised two concepts for consultation:
- Blood type compatibility
  - A set up that mimics the process of blood typing.
- Blood type inheritance
  - Guessing the parents’ blood types through the possible blood types of their children

Working session during class

Takeaways from consultation:
- possible to work on both concepts and present as a set of toolkit to educate the kids on the comprehensive understanding on blood types.

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Some ideation sketches on the possibility of a simpler set-up for each concept.

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Some quick prototypes to test the feasibility of the elements within each concept.

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Challenges

It was challenging to decide on the gameplay for the concept on blood inheritance. Oversimplifying it would make it too easy to arrive at the correct answer, which wouldn’t provide a meaningful takeaway about blood inheritance. On the other hand, making it too comprehensive would result in overly complex gameplay, which might not be suitable for our tentative target users (kids) and could reduce the potential engagement with our concept.