The Maze – Greg's Games

Physically, the players build the titular Maze with these path tiles that have QR codes for our app to scan- these codes contain the actual interactions

Originally the player picked premade characters, but testers felt that certain characters were always just better so we decided to allow customization and leveling up

This is a rough combat minigame- we want to replace anything that was done with a dice roll in our paper prototype with a skill based minigame affected by your stats

Although we intend to make the systems generic for expansion, our initial hook is a Scottish mythology theme which we have tried to adhere to- this is a Wulver, a friendly werewolf

This project having started in Game Design and Development II, bounced around in a Production Studio class, and was just a side project for all involved. Our group knew we somehow wanted to blend Analog and Digital games and were inspired by Betrayal at the House on Haunted Hill’s fun that can only come with a board game, and its complexity that could be done better digitally. We were then further inspired by Barcode warrior sort of games to have QR codes bridge the gap. I helped lead the design of a paper prototype that proved to us that it was a little too complex to be very fun, but our initial Android app helped see some improvements. In Production Studio I gutted our bug-filled and awkward app and started to redo it. We’ve made a fair amount of progress and one day hope to continue to do so.

Our group calls itself “Mahalo”, including myself, Zane Draper, Christian Granville, and Yanting Cheung.