Mobile Media

https://popapp.in/w#!/projects/53218303ba4822b65f33f322/preview?replay=true

One of the applications I brought up in class was called PolyFauna, which was collaboration between Radiohead and Universal Everything. It is an experimental application that allows users to be immersed in an abstract world of graphics and sounds. To navigate throughout the world the user can just turn their phone and look around, moving it around them to see the world from different angles. The application does not tell you anything but instead allows the user to discover how to use the application through trial and error, which suits this experimental world. You learn that there are more useful ways of navigation by swiping rather than having to physically face your phone in different directions, which become part of the journey in learning about the app. There are 3 icons on the bottom which allow the user to take a photograph of what they have created, go to the website, and are told about the red dot that they can follow. This is a very interesting navigation tool; if you make the red dot collide with you then you are taken to a different world. It’s a new way of doing things rather than just pressing a button, and while it definitely is not easier because often you miss the dot as it passes you, it does make the experiment feel more like a game or challenge even though it isn’t.

 

http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/take-deep-dive-strange-mind-radiohead-new-app/

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/polyfauna/id793263070?mt=8

 

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/polyfauna1.png

 

Samir

pancake screens

 

Samir

Duolingo: Good exiting English learning platform – They have a Website and a mobile application.

Website
mobile app

Duolingo is a free app that allows language learners to access language materials and practice translation. With this app, learners can check and track their learning process. 

Pros:

• interactive lesson with a variety of tasks
• random quiz like translating, listening, and speaking.
• strong element of gamification, designed to keep the user engaged.
• Checks user’s progress as they go forward 
• animation part is interesting and motivated for children.

Cons:

• Sometimes, texts are hard to read.
• Animation is pointless in some part and these animation makes interaction slow.

 

 

 

 

 

PRESENTATION LINK

POP LINK – I worked on new prototype here (Final one)

 

Sprite Something is a drawing, animation and tilemap application for pixel artists and game developers. Draw multiple frames individually, then quickly drag and drop frames into an animation, or use your frames to draw tilemaps for your game levels. Export your creations to PNG, animated GIF’s and CSV files (tilemaps).

Since I’m making a game for midterm project, I purchased this app ($4.99) and tried designing simple animated character. On each frames you can add sprite you draw and fix them by tapping screen with finger. Many tools for drawing serve you any choices to create your own character, and you can also play it on preview mode and check out how your character moves. This app is good for those who are interested in game design.

This is my final prototype—Food manager!

 

Red Bit Escape is an amazing skill game with a simple concept: avoid the blue squares for as long as possible by dragging your red square over the screen. As things get a lot more difficult than they sound as time goes by. Intense and fluorescent colours for a unique and endless game.
Escape the blue squares and make the Red Bit survive as long as possible!
Drag it around with your finger and avoid the blue enemies and the blue force field.
Also you can compare and share your score with other players and your friends with Google Play Games Leaderboard.

 

It is a game that you boil an egg to collective an ossan (an old man in Japanese). It only has 2 steps to play: boil an egg, pell off the shelf. There are different kinds of salt and eggs which will affect the result. Once you have 12 boiled ossan eggs, you will get a new pot. Each ossan egg has its own character setting, like a stabber office worker or a shy restaurant owner.
I like it because it is simply to play. I don’t need to spend a lot of time on it but it’s still fun.  This game is similar to Mushroom Garden App which came out few years ago. Also, it has nice graphic design. I think the only weak point is you have to understand Japanese.