Understanding Folk Musical Instruments, through Game Design
Folk music and instruments are an integral part of one's community. It is what binds the people together. Over the years many of the traditional and folk musical instruments have gone extinct. Various dedicated approaches have been going on to save and popularize different traditional and folk musical instruments of India. The increasing popularity of electronic music and musical instruments have also contributed to the same.
This is an exploratory project aimed at helping users understand the folk musical instrument, through their attributes and properties and help users identify these instruments and develop an interest in the same.
To cater to the problem we decided to adopt game design as an approach. The aim of the prototype is to help users understand various folk musical instrument through an interactive game based environment.
This is an exploratory project aimed at helping users understand the folk musical instrument, through their attributes and properties and help users identify these instruments and develop an interest in the same.
To cater to the problem we decided to adopt game design as an approach. The aim of the prototype is to help users understand various folk musical instrument through an interactive game based environment.
Game Overview:
Multiplayer Phy-gital turn-based strategy game
You and your friends visit a village or community during your school trip. The village is busy with the celebration of their yearly festival and needs some help. You and your friends are asked to help the villagers with the construction of some musical instruments that they will need for the festival.
This is a multiplayer board game where players play in teams of two to construct different musical instruments and create their own mixes. The game incorporates a digital application as a part of the gameplay. The application is used to create different tasks for the player, keep information about the instruments to be constructed, time, special powers players posses and help players in the team to coordinate and communicate between them.
Multiplayer Phy-gital turn-based strategy game
You and your friends visit a village or community during your school trip. The village is busy with the celebration of their yearly festival and needs some help. You and your friends are asked to help the villagers with the construction of some musical instruments that they will need for the festival.
This is a multiplayer board game where players play in teams of two to construct different musical instruments and create their own mixes. The game incorporates a digital application as a part of the gameplay. The application is used to create different tasks for the player, keep information about the instruments to be constructed, time, special powers players posses and help players in the team to coordinate and communicate between them.
Players choosing their special cards
Event during the play session when the players were using special cards to affect the progress of their opponents
