Game-board, counters and cards etc.
Here are some pictures of our physical products (i.e. our game-board and game box). There are also some pictures of our initial ideas for the game-board as well as what we came out with in the end. Overall we are very happy with what we have achieved with our game and everything that goes along with it and we hope others are happy with our work as well!
Twitter and Instagram:
To help with promoting our board game we created a couple of social media pages through Twitter and Instagram. By doing this we have been able to reach a wider audience that will hopefully take interest in our game. Our preferred target audience is that of secondary school kids, around the age of 15 and over. The reason for this is that we feel they are at a point in their educational lives that they would both pay a lot of attention to social media as well as paying attention to the issues the game covers.
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ClimateCrisis8
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/climate_crisis2020/?hl=en
Survey Monkey:
To go along with our board game we also created a survey through Survey Monkey in order for us to better understand the kind of people that play and interact with board games. From our results of our survey we found out that the majority of the people who responded are Male, between the ages of 16 and over. The results also show what percentage of people felt the message of the game connected with them which was around 81% of people. Overall we are very happy to see the results and to see who out their is interested in board games!
Link to our survey:
Press Release:
Climate Crisis is the name of our brand-new board game which focuses on the very important issue of climate change. Our very talented group has come up with an idea for a board game that not only focuses on the dangers that come from climate change but sends a message that we all can do something about it.
Our design process was long and extensive; this includes everything from designing the rules of the game to designing the board itself and the box art for the game. Other things to design include anything from; game cards to counters to play with.
We also made all-original promotional material; a poster, radio advert and video advert in order to advertise our board game. Each member of our team gladly did solo jobs, like designing a logo for our game using Photoshop and designing a set of five postcards to promote the game.
All our hard work that we have had a hand in completing will be ready to play by 2020 – we hope you are as excited as we are to play the final product and learn all about the dangers of climate change and what we can do as a community to fix it.
Climate Crisis – Board Game Poster Advert:
Below is our poster advert for our board game. We kept with the same idea we had for the logo, with the picture of the Earth on fire as that sends a very strong message that the planet is in real danger and that we need to do something about it. Our slogan for the poster: “Your job is simple… Find out what is killing the Earth” was used to highlight the purpose of the game, which is to help educate people on how and why the Earth is being polluted. We hoped that people would go away after playing the game with a better knowledge of climate change so that they can help reduce the amount of pollution they contribute to the planet.
For this module we have been tasked with coming up with an idea for a brand new Board Game on the theme of Climate Change. It can be any kind of board game we want but it has to be Climate Change related. To get us started in our groups we had to come up with an idea for a game. We all came up with an idea each and pitched it to the group to see what everyone thought. After this we all agreed on which idea we thought was the best to go with and moved forward with this idea together. Our classes since have consisted of us; gathering some initial research on Climate Change so as to help us when developing our idea for our game, drafting out our idea for the game onto paper to get a rough idea of what we wanted it to look like as well as sketching a firmer idea out. We managed to come up with the name Climate Crisis for our game.
Above is the initial idea we came up with for our Logo of our Board Game. We wanted to generate the feeling within people that the world is on fire because of Climate Change and pollution. The way we best sort to do this was by having an image of the Earth with giant flames coming off of it as this best demonstrates the seriousness and magnitude of the situation.
This first week of the new module mainly consisted of us forming our new groups and getting to know each other. We also covered the briefing for the module so that all the groups knew what it was that we needed to be doing. We also spent some time playing and analysing existing games.
In the second week we developed our first paper drafts for our board games and looked at the impact Social Media can have on people. We delved into how it can help promote things such as how it would help with promoting our games and how to use it in a positive manner.
The starting point for this week was to make our Social Media sites for our games in order to promote them properly. We made both Twitter and Instagram accounts so that we can share different types of content on each. The next thing we had to do was to set up our blog site for our board game so that we can upload all the work we do for marking, not to mention we setup a Trello site to help us organise what needs to be done by who and when.
The next step was driven towards making our surveys for feedback about board games. This was a useful way to engage with other people and find out who plays board games and why they do so. In addition to this, one of our workshops was tailored to teaching us the basic skills of Photoshop so that we can make/design a poster (physical advert) for our game.
This weeks lecture consisted of us learning about Adobe Audition for our Radio advert. The lesson was spent going over the basic layout of audition so that we know what to expect as well as listening to some examples of radio adverts. As well as this, we spent around 10 minutes or so just coming up with some first basic ideas for the advert we are tasked to make.
In week six we gained some feedback from our formative assessment that helped keep us heading in the right direction with our blogs. Not only that but we also began working on our radio adverts. Our group very quickly came up with an idea for our advert and how we wanted it to sound, so much so, we managed to get all of our audio recorded, our sound effects gathered and the whole advert put together within both of week sixes workshops.
Heading into week seven meant it was time to make a start on our video adverts. Just like our radio advert we had an idea put together very quick. Iwan did a great job spear heading the video advert by; writing the script, story boarding and directing the video. We shot our video over both the workshops we had and managed to get all the filming we needed done within that time. We spent the remainder of the last workshop making a start on the editing of the video and then spent some time outside of lesson finishing it off. We are all very happy with how the advert turned out and believe that we’ve put across the message we wanted to send out.
Climate Crisis – Board Game Video Advert
Below is our groups finished Video Advert for our Board Game. Our video quite simply shows someone going round to their friends’ house to play this new Board Game; Climate Crisis and learn about what it is that is killing the planet as well as what they can do themselves to help in the fight against Climate Change.
The perspective of the advert was shot in a way so that you don’t see the face of the person on camera (i.e Maider). We chose to do this so that the audience might better put themselves in the shoes of the person on screen on their way to play the game at their friends’ house, thus giving them a better feel for why they are going there in the first place.
Here is the SoundCloud link to our finished radio advert. We wanted the advert to be set in a school and have a comedic feeling to it. With it being aimed at secondary school kids we thought that they would be more likely to take notice of the advert if it had a sense of humour to it. We achieved this by adding silly sound effects in between a more serious and emphatic sounding soundbed in order to try and inject the humour we were aiming for.
Radio Advert:
This weeks workshops have been focused on starting and developing our Radio Adverts for advertising our board games. I have had some previous experience with using Adobe Audition so I took the lead at using Audition to add and edit different voice recordings as well as different sound effects. At this point we’ve only had the first workshop of two for our Radio Adverts and yet we’ve already managed to; write a short script, record the audio for the speech as well as adding together all of the sound effects to go along with it. Now, we have a basic advert that advertises our game, meaning that we can only improve our advert going forward.
Some of the key elements I’ve used thus far for our advert have been things such as; adding sound effects, using fade-ins and fade-outs on certain pieces of audio. Not to mention adding a soundbed to the backing of the advert and other added sounds to give the feel of where we have proposed our advert is taking place. Some of these sounds include; a school bell, school kids talking/laughing and a teacher talking to a class. The reason for some of these sound effects are because we have set our advert taking place in a school, as our target audience is secondary school kids to help inform them of the major issues surrounding Climate Change. The reason for targeting secondary school kids is because we feel that they would be more accepting of the facts and feel more passionately about making changes to help deal with Climate Change with this being ours and their future hanging in the balance.
Climate Crisis 