Sunday, 4 October 2015

I made a drawing game

As part of the Introduction to Game Design Coursera course, I made up a couple of games. This one is a drawing game.

Cavepainting-101 It is pre-historic times - you are at an interview for the guild of cave-painters and are very nervous. You have been left alone and asked to use no more than 10 marks to draw a representation of a person before the angry-looking boss Thugg comes back to decide if you are good enough.
You really want this job because the other option is hunting animals and you don't know anyone who didn't get hurt doing that. Besides you really want to spend time with your new friend Rakelle who already works there and told you about this opportunity as she also really wants to hang out with you.
Rakelle prepared you for the interview. She gave you a six sided die and told you to throw it 10 times. ( I know what you're thinking – how does she have a die? Well, duh, she's from the future and showed you dice, how to count and how to draw basic shapes. Hopefully, she will teach you even more including time-travel if you get the job.)

Concentrate! Back to the interview:
She said, for each mark you make (you only have ten)

  • if you roll a 1 – then draw a line 
  •  If you roll a 2 – then draw a square shape
  • if you roll a 3 – then draw a triangle shape
  • if you roll a 4 – then draw a circle
  • if you roll a 5 – then draw a dot
  • if you roll a 6 – then draw a squiggle.
Hurry now! Before the boss gets back.

Throw the die, draw the shape suggested by the die and throw it again for the next mark – aiming for a person-like drawing in 10 moves. If you don't have a die to hand go to https://www.random.org/dice/ 

Hope you get the job and learn lots with Rakelle.


Here's my masterpiece - did I get the job? Want to apply yourself? Then submit your drawing.