Portal 2 notes.

Narrative: The game was narrated by several characters as you move through the levels, The sarcastic AI GLaDOS will comment on your actions, mock and deceive you, and possibly manipulate you.

Characters: Wheatley is funny and well acted by Stephen merchant. GLaDOS is a funny as it is evil. Chell is almost underdeveloped, everything you learn about your character is from Wheatley and GLaDOS. The cores are funny.

Gameplay:The gameplay is challenging a puzzling as the game starts you are taught the reasonably simple main mechanic of the portal gun which allows you to create 2 portals between levels. Manipulating objects and liquids with it to progress. All environments inside but are still varied (apart from exceptions)

Visuals: Dated but still very good, Sci fi setting holds up well, Visuals is very good, Graphics are ok. Runs very well. You start in A dated and dilapidated labs, (Overgrown) (Chapters 1- 4) and the test facility rebuilds itself. Then it's clean and new onwards (apart from exceptions).  

Sound/music: Music is extremely good and sound is atmospheric and funny. Ambient and changing with situation. ending song.

Difficulty: The game progresses in difficulty using mechanics to develop the difficulty.  No Difficulty settings. Mechanics - Cube, Companion, Laser Cube, Turret, Moon liquids, jump pads, bombs.

Replayability: I've played it 3 times but for most people it's not hugely replayable, linear story,  Co op makes it a lot more replayable. WORKSHOP adds a lot of replayability, more mods and player made campaigns e.g  Portal Stories: Mel (more difficult)

Genre : Comedy, Puzzle platform, Sci fi,

Target audience: All ages, Older due to difficulty and humour. some jokes more adult (e.g adoption). P-C.

Personal review/response: I love this game because of its simplicity of mechanics, well

developed theme. The levels are always fun with commentary funny, at least for the first playthrough. Characters and backstory is deep with a good lore. Co Op is best locally split screen and control input doesn't matter. A game every gamer should own.  Cheap now. WORKSHOP

Twine Feedback.

Alot of the problems are due to the limited time to test, due to a saving issue.

Plane text game feedback

Needs a more diverse story and could be longer. More interesting endings are needed. The theme is good but the back story could be told more. The twine software could add random events (e.g plane crashing or not in addition to when you run out of fuel.

-Added a backstory card.

-Added a new ending

Text Game reactions

The ones we love alive

Very immersive and other worldly. It seemed as if I was missing some greater meaning though. Although it wasn't a game as you couldn't really interact much. (feeling of false choice was common)

The Domovoi

Again immersive and mythical. I really enjoyed the setting and how mysterious but rooted in reality it was. I enjoyed the slightly creepy undertones. It is a game as you can interact and change the outcome.

Board game feedback

Cards being paper cuased some problems: 

They were hard to handle

You could say through them (allowing cheating)

Cards could be hard to handle

In addition to this:

Some characters were not well known outside our group

Cards font was to small and hard to read sometimes

Cars holders did not match cards asthetic

Board game

Observations:

• Rules not clear enough and also too long. (Could be clearer)
• Good until the cards repeat cycle then it becomes boring and repetitive. 
• needs more and more varied cards.
• Fast paced
• The board didn't fit the theme. 
• The board needed a different ratio of  bad to chance areas. (more chance than bad). 
• Especially liked the swap card. (swap positions on the board)
• Game could last for ages with the amount times you could reset (1:5 'bad cards')

What I would change using the feedback:

I would defiantly add more cards. In addition to this the cards would be more varied. The board would also change with there being less red blocks are more green so the ratio is equal.  I would also theme the board to be more viking themed (add viking ships or treasure chests) As it was too simplistic to fit a viking theme.

What I have learned about making games:

• Play testing is a must. (we didn't do enough so we didn't see that we needed more cards)
• There needs to be a constant theme.
• Never assume that players are going to understand what you have written, (Just because it makes sense in your mind doesn't mean it makes sense to them)
• Try and make the rules as simple and easy to understand as possible.