Discussion of Idea and Refinement of Details

So we've sat down and further discussed our new idea and how it would work in terms of relating to the overall market experience. Our paper dart idea is good, but we've made a few more decisions in order to make it more fun and relate to the market-goers.

The major change we've made is involving the students, most of whom will be the dominant market audience. The decision is that there will be a "crafting" table of sorts alongside our stall which will allow the audience to create their own paper dart. this will be a minor challenge for creative types and will involve some problem solving ( which type of dart is better for each target?) as well as some craft materials for decorating.

we've limited the paper sized used to A5 as it's small enough in relation to the targets, Which is also a throwback in terms of difficulty to our previous idea- it was near impossible to get the ball into any of the targets, but this sparked a feeling of competitiveness in participants. 
This will hopefully bring up some competitiveness in and between market-goers as tow who can actually land a dart in a target- prizes will be given to successful participants.

The other main aspect of our stall is the poll. We've decided to ask each participant to write down what their major is (as most market-goers will be Massey students- if someone is not a Massey student they can write down their profession- banker/ barista ect.) this information will then be posted on the market's Facebook page and on this blog so they can see which major was the best/ had the best accuracy.

-Joe Murton

Target materials

Still continuing with our aim to be as sustainable as possible, we tried to source as much material from skips/printing shops as possible. The tubes were found in a printing shop.

Joe and Luuk then cut at a 45 degree angle to sit easily on the wooden bases, which we also found at a skip inside Massey. These will be then painted in various colours we are yet to decide on.

J.M, T.N, L.A

Targets

 We have come up with two different target systems, one which is box shaped with a hole in the top, the other is a cylindrical tube on a 45 degree angle.

The Box shaped target is designed to be the easier of the two targets, which a bigger surface area for where the paper plane can enter. And the tube design is designed to be smaller and much harder to get the paper plane into. 

We have come up with a few target configurations (as shown below) but this still needs to be refined.

J.M, T.N, L.A

Refining New Idea

 Our Paper planes idea still has things that need to be refined.

In terms of the target system, we've decided to separate it into two different "difficulties" that would get the participant a different prize (varying quantities of fruit bursts).

In terms of materials, we're still going with cardboard and anything we can find around Uni as it's increasing our sustainability and reduces waste.

For our targets, we're using poster tubes found at various print shops ( these targets will be very hard-it's almost impossible to get a paper plane in, but that will be half the fun in an "impossible" game) We'll also use some larger, modified boxes as the "easy" targets. 

However, it's proven hard to find clean cardboard around Massey. we've decided to buy some boxes from warehouse stationery in order to start with some clean, no-wrinkled card to paint on.

J.M, T.N, L.A

Tutor Feedback

 Tutor Feedback

Some things were pointed out in our tutor meeting about our current idea: it was lacking in originality, it didn't involve the audience on a more constructive level, and it was still in the prototype stage. so we decided to take some aspects of the skeeball idea and move it into a  different game idea.

Our new game idea is still based on a target system of sorts. The boiled down version of it still is "put the projectile in the hole" but we've decided to make it harder and involving an aspect of the university in some way.

J.M, T.N

Leaderboard Development

We decided that we needed to develop a leaderboard for our Skee Ball game, so we put explore some different forms of leaderboards in black and white for our initial designs.

After that we looked at colours that we could use for the leaderboard and agreed that the Massey blue and orange would work well for the colour scheme. We then converted our initial designs into colour.

We then developed the design further and came up with this leaderboard. Its clear and nicely incorporates the Massey colour scheme. We also thought that the addition of a scoreboard to the leaderboard would work better than having them separate from each other and gives some continuity between the two. 

T.N

Slideshow for the presentation