Chamelicious is a Serious/Cooperative mobile game .

It's a 3 weeks of production student project made by 5 student of ETPA Toulouse Game Design school in 2nd year . 

Designed for people who want to learn easily secondary color compositions. The game can be played by youngs or adults, simply to share a moment with someone close to you. 

Each player incarnate a Chamelicious, They have to make the right color choices to mix up and match the secoundary color displayed, if so they progress further and win points. 

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Game Design:

High Concept:

Our scholar constraint was to make the portage of another classmates game. The game we had was  "Think Twice" a puzzle game with geometricals problems. The challenge of the project was to start with a PC game we didn't knew to make it a mobile game, but keep its soul, its game core. 

classmates game: "Think Twice"

Game Core:

The core mechanic of this game is a link between 2 player which interact with the game environnement . So, after a brainstorming with the team, we made a prototype : 3 color, 2 player, 1 link. Players have a link between them wich change it's color by the addition of each primary color they step on. They have to get the right color and orientation to achive a pattern. The color and the orientation is given by the square.

First prototype of Chamelicious

After this prototype, we decide to make a Serious game for its potential to teach primary color mix. Our public was a parent with his child. Choosing a public change completely the game. Game dynamics had to change, before it was challenging reflex and observation, after it became more of a reflexion/puzzle game.  Moreover, the communication became central in the gameplay.

Atfer a while, we find the good mood of our game:

Mecanics:

We tweaked the mecanics for this prototype to fit more our public expectations : 

- Move: Each player can move on his color area,

- Link: To create a link, players have to "tap" on the center of the screen (the black area). 

- When the 2 players have taped, a link is created between them. The link color is a mix between the 2 color of each players position on the color area. 

- To achive the pattern, you have to get the same color, and the same angle of the pattern. 

Serious Game:

We change the gameplay to focus on the color learning part. In the last prototype, the main competence was observation, reflex and the spacialisation. The spacialisation and the reflex doesn't help players to learn color mix, so we decided to put it aside. We attempt to rationnalise our gameplay by focusing on observation and communication between players. 

So, we replace the color area by a button. You have to tap on a color to choose it but still have to move to match pattern direction. During the playtest, we note that players learn better with this prototype. 

We go a head in production of this prototype: 

final visual 

To resume, you have:

- 2 Players in each screen side,

- 2 Mecanics: Move and Link,

- If they achive 3 pattern in a row, the Chamelicious climbs, and players have a new level. You have 3 different kinds of level. 

Different kinds of level:

1- Color Changing place

Color change place. Players need to observe.

2 - Color Blocking

Each player loose a different color. They have to communicate to make the right mix.

3 - Color Swapping 

The color flowers are changing every 2 secondes. Players have to communicate and have the good timing to choose the right color.

POST MORTEM:

- The game lacks  juiciness. This game needed to be a toy for players, we have some "toys finitions" like stretch and squash when you tap on a Chamelicious or one the caterpillar, but it's not enough.

- The game lacks challenge on the long run. 

- Our public is parent with his child. The child needed to have lot of visual rewards, because it's his motivation to stay on the game. 

- 92 % Players learn the primary color mix.

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Chamelicious's team hope you have a good time.

Romain: Here.

Guillaume: Here,

Angelo: Here,

Elodie,

Renaud: Here.