Co-Design Preporation continued

Design Stage;

So since Christmas Break is coming up I decided to get the final stages of the preperation completed by trying to design a flowchart, so that I can show the children how the story is ment to go scene to scene.  This was mainly to help me when it comes to my actual design stage so that when I get everything from the children I can start working on the final designs and get everything ready to start animating.

The way I think this will be done is by first of digitizing all of the drawings that I feel I can use for the application and then from there work on how the first challenge is going to work or if not the first challenge on of them.  So that if I am able to get at least one challenge working I will know that I am on the right track for my project.

So far I have been looking into creating a colouring game using SVGs in Adobe Edge Animate, the only issue with using this method is that if there are any problems with Edge I won't get much support on it anymore due to the fact that Adobe have stopped working on Edge.

I have been following a video guide from edgedocks on youtube to help me test some ways to create this and I have managed to figure it out, only issue is since Adobe decided to remove jQuerry from Edge you have to go through an external source to get ahold of everything needed to make the project work.  So with this factor it could become a problem in the future but at the current moment it works.

Co-design Preperation

Design Stage;

So since I now have a date for my workshop I decided that I should probably get prepared for what it is I am going to do with the children so that I have everything planned in advance.

So for the first task I think I will do something along the lines of a simple colourblind test to show them what the tests look like and how they work, also this gives me a chance to maybe see if there are any children that are colourblind in the class.  The issue with this task is that I will need the schools permission to do this and they will probably need to get parental consent for this type of task, but if this is allowed then that means it would be good for statisical research.

The second task I think will be allowing the children to create the characters that may make appearances in the story so that they can have their creations in the story.  This will be a good chance to show them the process that designers go through when it comes to creating applications for them and allows them to be apart of the story book more than just playing with it as a game.

For the final task I will be probably trying to get the children to help me create the story by choosing things like the name of the town, how the evil Doctor takes away the colours and why.  By doing this it helps me create a story from a childs point of view and then the application will be something created by children for children.