CSS!

I made quite a few changed to my blog. I started out changing the colors from bright greens to grays and pinks (a tribute to my favorite winter jacket). I also changed the typefaces to georgia and trebuchet. And then, to try my hand at CSS, I picked the most beautiful pattern possible....toile...to grace the background. I tried several different times and ways to make only the background the toile, so that the text box would remain white, but I was never successful so the toile will continue to fill the entire page.

A bit distracting? Perhaps. A bit unfortunate that the tree runs right through my main text? Perhaps. But I love toile, and its worth the sacrifice.

okay one more actually

I just wanted to make one more post with a little more reflection on what was hard about this project.  First of all, it was pretty fast paced but me and Elizabeth worked everyday so we handled that pretty well.  The thing we struggled with most was getting the right things done because they had to be done before other stuff could get done (if that makes sense).  Also, just learning the new programs was hard.  I am pretty familiar with photoshop but indesign and illustrator were completely new to me so it's nice to know a little bit more about them.  Printing was a bit of a struggle too, but at least we could work on all our pieces while we were waiting on the printers to cooperate.  I was most overwhelmed at the beginning and the end, but everything turned out to be okay.  When Amber first told us that a whole type face was due the day after we learned how to make one, I was so freaked out, but I got it done like usual.  And the last couple days of working on touch ups and packaging, I thought we would never see the end.    

Something interesting to think about for me is how each group fit their game so well.  If we had had different partners, none of the games we have now would have been produced. 

And since Elizabeth and I worked so hard on character development, I thought I'd give them a little more attention by matching my classmates with which one they would most likely be.  It's like high school superlatives!

Pete - farmer, no doubt. 

Jen - kid

Susannah - mom

Caitlin - theif

Kelly - I'd say you were the friendly neighbors, even though they aren't an official character

Elizabeth - magician, she'd look fly with a beard

Will - yak impostor obviously 

Griff - I'm having a hard time with this one, but I think I'm going to go with farmer. 

Betsy - mom

Amber - (I hope this doesn't affect my grade)  I'd say you are a farmer. 

 

pink milk heaven right there

here is a video of my group playing our game.  Note the joy and the interaction among players.  

Check it out, Pink Milk the card game.  I really enjoyed this project.  At the end, when I realized that we had essentially created everything about this game, I was so excited.  It was a really rewarding feeling.  I'm really happy that me and my partner worked so well together and were able to pull it off.  I can't wait to take it home and make my family play it and show it off and build a shrine for it.   

slow and steady wins the race

Pictures of our game and people enjoying it/interacting with each other!!

Elizabeth and I brought some pink yoohoo for people to enjoy, AKA, chug if you lose. Lets just say that yoohoo's product isn't as successful as our product.

last day of class

Elizabeth and I were so efficient during this whole process that we were only in studio till 11 o'clock and that was after a nice relaxing break.  I am so proud of how our game turned out.  I think we created a fun game with a cohesive design and some humor.  I know I still can't do this blog so this paragraph is going to be below all my pictures which looks stupid.  But these are pictures of us playing the games on the last day.  

Ah, yes well once again the image uploading is failing.  So I'll take a moment to comment on the games.  

Chock - a - block:  I dominated in this one, winning 3 games in a row and becoming the champion of my group.  This was a really fun game for kids to learn spacial relations or as Caitlin suggested, a lovely gentlemen's game.  The packaging and blocks were wonderfully done and the directions were clear.  Also, I was very happy with the change in size they made since last critique.

Say What? - This game was fun, it improved a lot as far as clarity goes.  The colored cards and explanation on the back of the directions really helped the game along.  Also Betsy and Jen definitely added more articles like we had suggested. 

What's for Lunch? - The packaging was really cute and portable.  They made some nice improvements since last crit by adding LOTS more adjective cards and some new food items.

Sha-hair-a-zod  - I'm spelling it how you say it.  This game was absolutely beautiful.  The cards and backs and packaging were amazingly well done.  The concept of story-telling during the game is really cool, but the hardest part is getting through the directions.  I think we discussed having a hotline to call when things get confusing?? 

Pink Milk - need I say anything more??  

da da da nuh nuh

this is a pink milk container without the transparency paper!!

I'm trying to create some suspense here but I guess it won't work considering the blog shows the most recent post first. 

Okay, here is a story.  Do you see the image of the missing bottle of milk on the right panel?  Well there is a backstory to that image.  I was desperately trying to find some pink milk on campus, but I ended up not so I improvised.  I went through my recycling and found a moldy  (gross) glass bottle and bought some plain milk.  Then I bought some raspberry lipton powder that you are supposed to add to water and poured it in the milk!!!  nasty, yes, but effective.  

some notes!

Here are just some pictures of our thought process in Elizabeth's sketch book.