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Il test volge al termine. Oltre all’analisi dei booklet di gioco, i partecipanti risponderanno ad un breve questionario per meglio valutare alcune opportunità di intervento sul design. Qui è possibile scaricare copia delle domande che verranno poste. Il materiale sarà valutato nei giorni a seguire e verranno pubblicate le classifiche con conseguente proclamazione del vincitore/vincitrice.

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The test will soon be over. Here is the pre-prototype evaluation interview (in Italian) that players have to fill in. The standings of the game (and the winner name) will be published in the next few days.

From Thursday 29th Jan till Tuesday 2nd Feb, I will run, with 12 volunteers, a pre prototyping test of my thesis project. The players will play on a small booklet I made out of cardboard and paper. After the test, each of them will be asked to fill in a brief questionnaire on the experience. The evaluation will hopefully help me refine the ongoing design.

Here are PDFs of the booklet and the instructions on the prototype (only in Italian)

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Da Giovedì 29 Gennaio a Martedì 2 Febbraio, 12 volontari prenderanno parte al test del primo prototipo della mia tesi. A seguire, chiederò ad ogni partecipante di compilare un breve questionario sull’esperienza di gioco. La valutazione del test e delle interviste mi fornirà utili indicazioni per il design.

Qui i PDF del libretto di gioco e le istruzioni del prototipo (in italiano)

What follows is a brief presentation of my work in progress I made to IxD Lab2 2009 students on Friday 16th January.

Download the presentation (PDF | 900KB)

The concept development is going on: there is still a lot of work to do but at the moment one of my biggest worries are visualization and graphics. Comments are very welcome!

The final week of the IxD Lab1 studio has been very tough, as usual. Due to this overload I really slowed down my work on the thesis. After a few weeks thinking about a theme for my game, my very first idea of changing Venice into a cursed forest is consolidating. The physical Scrubble and the neighbourhood management ideas have been left behind.

In the last 4 weeks I’ve been trying to understand what is more important to take into consideration: I need a simple game that has an interesting interaction. I brought a lot of considerations but it seems as the minimal game element is still a bit weak. I think I had an interesting idea for the graphics mood.

Therefore the next steps suggested during the last revision of my work concern finding a good balance between the amount of active involvement and its reward, developing a ‘look and feel’ proposal and thinking on the “on site” visual context.

Sharing my recent thoughts also highlighted to me the need for a better investigation of the physical space and activities of the territory in which the game will be developed and a brief study of ideal players.

I’m trying to make a research on the graphic style and still thinking about the biological dynamics of an invasive vegetation.

I don’t really like birthdays but I thought I could try something different this year…

For my birthday, Sunday 7th December, 9 pm, I would like to invite everybody to a brainstorming session in my flat.

It’s not a party! But if you come you’ll still get a good coffee, pastries and maybe some strong drinks. We’ll chat for a couple of hours about my thesis project. We’ll make drawings, we’ll sketch ideas, stick millions of post its on the wall. I need to listen to your crazy ideas and I want people to criticize my thoughts.

RSVP!! Either by adding comments here or on my mobile/skype/email.
Thanks for your wonderful present!

Venice is a unique town. It is a completely pedestrian urban area built on water. At first glance the urban fabric seems like any other in the world; until one gets lost in its labyrinths or he/she doesn’t realize that crossing a bridge means walking into one of the many unperceived small islands which give shape to the “sestrieri”. A town where, during high tides, the lagoon overwhelms the walkways giving this dizzy feeling of living over a buoyant creature.

Venetian nights are even more fascinating: the crowded and colorful touristic town turns into a ghostly set of desert “calli”. One often walks alone in the narrow and silent lanes, in a town that has no precise time reference and it’s completely pervaded by a magic atmosphere.

So why shouldn’t such a weird place have a real magic?? I want to see the dark “campi” invaded by living creatures. I want the town which was built on water -but without any trees- to finally bloom from its desert. I want to put a curse on Venice…