1. Destination Travelers
Project Overview Presentation
COMP 7970
Robbin A. Bibbs & Brandi Smith
Auburn University

2. Project Design Highlights
Improvement in Graphic Utilized for final game design vs. initial game design.
Improvement in object movement(i.e., Scuba Diver, marine animals).
Operations of buttons
Overall game design format

3. Technical Game Design Changes
Original Design
Final Design
Initially screen design format entailed seven screens
Airport Scene (Cut Scene)
Geographical Facts Screen
Photo Album –Moving Pictures Screen
Scuba Shop –Shopping Scene – Family would purchase materials and record totals.
Final design entailed five screens – realize the complexities involved in designing multiple screens.
Scuba Shop Scene was deleted – difficulty inserting totals button and sale prices

4. Technical Game Design Changes
Original Design
Final Design
Ocean Movement – Underwater Scene
Dilemma Scene – underwater Scene
Designer Differences in Game Format
Differences in Flash Software – Flash MX and Flash Professional 8
Replicating actual ocean movement –fluidity issues.
Both designers utilized Flash MX.

5. Playability Game Design Changes
Original Design
Final Design
Multiple Scuba Divers
Underwater Cave Scene
Initial play testing session had only 2 screens
Underwater fish (i.e., Shark, Eels, ) would shock diver – deducting air points.
Underwater fish (i.e., tropical ) would add air points to divers time underwater.
One Scuba Diver: Issues with layer- ing objects on same page.
Underwater Cave scene was deleted, impact to diver (too Graphic Target group).
Difficult y with collision detection of objects – Underwater fish.

6. Lessons learned from Playtesters
Playtester Comments
Game Changes
Scuba Diver moves too slow.
No reaction to diver when they interact with the fish .
NO record of Score accumulated or deducted from diver-fish interaction.
Need a screen which indicates differences between underwater animals/fish (i.e., Shark and Eel), prior to underwater scene.
Kitchen scene and start button.
Diver speed increased.
Increased size of start button in the kitchen.
Included a screen indicating the differences between underwater animals (Shark and Eel).

7. Game Time Extension
Add in the scene that contains geographical information on Vacation Sites.
Insert Geographical Map of vacation sites (Hawaii and Bahamas).
Include four geographical facts for each map.
Insert music appropriate to each geographical location.
Create all scenes based on original game design.
Create an ending for the game.

8. What would be Different –Second Time Around?
Plan more logically
Started with actual game design screens –save time upfront.
Utilized a game design software that entailed more visual design.

9. Game Design Created Story Boards of game format. Inserted graphics
Flash MX software used for game design.
Created Story Boards of game format.
Inserted graphics
Imported sound and graphics into the environments.
Based games on frame actions.