Mission: Junk Buster

Brief

Design a digital game which connects with a wider social purpose.

Games can be forces for good. Just like other forms of
areas of art and design, games can be used as vehicles of communication; the engagement and activity of game play can help users imagine and re-visualise situations to encourage them to think about the world in a new way.

Working in groups, you are to design and present a game concept and prototype which creatively and thoughtfully uses a game environment to address a social need or communicate a subject or issue in an engaging way.

Solution

my group and I decided to combat the issue of space junk which we wanted to aim at a target audience of 8-13 years of age.

Space Junk is an issue where not many people tend to have great knowledge. We believed teaching our target audience about this issue through a game would be an ideal solution.

Ideation

We started off by thinking of as many game genres and topics that we could design and create a game from.

We then shuffled different genres and topics around until we all agreed on what we would take forward. This was a 2D side scroller game called Mission: Junk Buster.

My role in the project

I was responsible for

Looking into C# coding to figure out how to make the space junk move and rotate at different speeds
Creating the After Effects Video to demonstrate our project
Creating the game music using Garage Band