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Boolean Bonanza

Immerse yourself in a world of brain-teasing challenges and strategic gameplay. With each level, sharpen your logical reasoning skills as you complete puzzles.

Influences (Brief)

  • Yoshi’s Cookie:
  • Medium: Games
  • Explanation: Yoshi’s Cookie is a puzzle game in which players arrange cookies to create matches in rows or columns. Our game utilizes a similar mechanic in which players arrange and match objects in rows and columns.
  • Candy Crush:
  • Medium: Games
  • Explanation: Candy Crush is a puzzle game where players swap adjacent candies to create matches of three or more of the same color. Players progress through levels by completing objectives within a limited number of moves or time limit. Our game plans on utilizing similar objectives and level progressions where the levels get more challenging.

Core Gameplay Mechanics (Brief)

  • Click on two tiles to swap: Players click on two tiles which will highlight them upon selection and swap them. If there is a row/column that results in true, then that row/column of tiles will turn white.

Learning Aspects

Learning Domains

  • Boolean logic

Target Audiences

  • Students studying computer science, programming, logic, mathematics, or related subjects.
  • Programming beginners who are new to programming

Target Contexts

This would be practice in a course teaching about logic, truth tables, and relevant topics.

Learning Objectives

  • By the end of the lesson, players will be able to identify which boolean expressions result in true.
  • By the end of the lesson, players will be able to construct complex boolean expressions that result in true.
  • By the end of the lesson, players will be able to quickly solve simple boolean expressions.

Prerequisite Knowledge

  • Prior to the game, players need to be familiar with logical thinking.
  • Prior to the game, players need to know basic mathematical concepts such as numerical comparisons.

Assessment Measures

A pre and post test to determine whether or not the player can identify/solve puzzles - Given a puzzle, can the player complete the puzzle?

What sets this project apart?

  • Tutorial Levels: Tutorial levels are interactive and will teach the user some of the logic that is required to complete the puzzles.
  • Scaling difficulty: Puzzles are easy to complete but get more complex as the player progresses.

Player Interaction Patterns and Modes

Player Interaction Pattern

Player clicks on tiles with their mouse and swaps them to make rows/columns.

Player Modes

  • Single Player: upon completion of a puzzle, another puzzle is displayed until reaching the final puzzle.

Gameplay Objectives

  • Achieve a designated score: When you reach score objective, you complete the level and proceed to the next level
  • Complete all levels: To beat the game, you have to clear all levels.

Procedures/Actions

  • The player can click on two tiles to swap them.

  • After completing a round, another screen will appear showing that the player completed the round and is able to proceed to the next level.

Rules

  • the player has to click on two tiles to swap.
  • if the player completes a row/column, the row/column will turn white and can no longer be accessed.

Objects/Entities

  • There is a puzzle that must be solved to earn points.
  • There is a scoreboard.
  • There is a tutorial to explain how to get a true expression.

Core Gameplay Mechanics (Detailed)

  • Swapping tiles: The player can click on two different tiles to swap. The player can unselect tiles if they wish to.
  • getting a row/column to true: If the player makes a column/row evaluate to true, then their score will increase and the row/column will go white.

Feedback

  • Score will increase indicating an expression resulted in true.
  • The tiles will go white indicating that they don’t need to be moved anymore.
  • Completing a puzzle will allow the player to proceed to the next level.

Story and Gameplay

Presentation of Rules

  • Text will appear explaining what the task is and perhaps a tutorial.

Presentation of Content

  • The player will interact with the instructions to make them engaged. That way they will see how statements can evaluate to be true.

Story (Brief)

  • Bowser copycat stole our cake so we need to travel through 4 different islands (4 levels) to get our cake back.

Storyboarding

stage_1 stage_1_all_tiles_match stage_1_click_tiles stage_1_complete stage_1_tile_match stage_1_tile_match_score_update

Assets Needed

Aesthetics

  • Think of a retro Mario-themed look. Should generally be happy in the beginning but as the player progresses, the background should be more dark.

Graphical

  • Environment Art/Textures:
  • grassy skies with a few clouds
  • dungeon-like background

Audio

  • Music List (Ambient sound)

  • Somewhat playful

  • Sound List (SFX)

  • complete row/column sounds
  • level complete sound

Metadata

  • Template created by Austin Cory Bart acbart@udel.edu, Mark Sheriff, Alec Markarian, and Benjamin Stanley.
  • Version 0.0.3
Last update: May 17, 2024 05:13:54
Created: May 17, 2024 05:13:54
Authors: Mitchell