Sprint 2 Results

Round 1

User Feedback Notes

Trojan Horse

• At an angle but not 3D
  • Flat, needs dimension/depth
  • Suggestion: 2-3 shades of colour per element
• Horse is not centred on board - move back further
• Wheels appear flat and at an angle
  • Make shape more oval-like

Marble Trap

• Good use of colour and shading
• Too many marbles in tile, makes it look busy
• Marble size too small
• Hard to recognise as marble
  • Extend shine/highlight on top
  • Kind of look like blueberries at the moment
• Good spacing between marbles
• Spacing between marbles is too uniform
  • If game is end of the world, marbles would appear less straight and orderly

Spike Trap

• Make spikes taller + pointier
  • Spikes appear blunt at the moment
  • Unsure how much damage the spikes cause
• Add more dimension + depth
  • Suggestion: 2-3 shades of colour per element
• Spikes are a bit crowded and hard to see
  • Suggestion: add fewer spikes and make spikes themselves bigger

House

• Distinguished 3D effect
• Add another plant to make the structure more detailed
• The building itself lacks colour
• The perspective effect is not accurate enough
• Building exterior needs more detail

Trap

• Lack of details
• Lack of colour
• Should remove the black outline
• Consider more 3D visual effects

Tower

• Identifiable as a tower
• No perspective, add depth
• Suggestion: remove the black stroke
• Suggestion: add richer colours

Changes for Next Design Iteration

Trojan Horse

• Add 3D perspective to object
  • Use 3 shades of colour per element
• Centre horse to the middle of the platform
• Adjust wheel perspective
  • Make shape more angular (30 degrees)
  • Make shape more oval-like

Marble Trap

• Make marbles larger
• Use fewer marbles (~ 5)
• Make spacing less uniform
  • Turn into cluster instead of rows (potentially in a flower formation)
• Dimension
  • Extend the shine/highlight length to make it look more glass-like

Spike Trap

• Make spikes larger and taller (+ 2-3 pixels)
• Use fewer spikes (~ 5)
• Dimension for platform
  • Use 3 shades of colour per element
  • Add wooden texture using different shades of pixel lines

House

• Adjust the perspective
  • Straighten to 30 degrees
  • Make viewpoint higher so that the top of the roof is shown
• Building facade changes
  • Add more colours (~ 3 shades of brown)
  • Add wooden texture (use straight vertical pixel lines with varying shades)

Trap

• Use borderless drawing (replace black outline with darker shade of chosen spike colour)
• Add more details ('skeleton' structure, hinges, red target at the centre)
• Add 3D perspective (use 2-3 shades per element)

Tower

• Adjust the perspective relationship to make it look more three-dimensional
• Use borderless drawing (replace black outline with darker shade of applied colour)
• Add colour (orange, blue, yellow, brown)

Round 2

User Feedback Notes

Trojan Horse

• Good use of colour for dimension
  • Big improvement from last version
• Wheels appear to be too high in relation to wooden platform
  • Suggestion: lower by 2-3 pixels
• Front wheels are not aligned
  • Suggestion: move front right wheel back so that it matches the back wheel
• Make horse bigger, more impact
• Add shadow underneath the horse to make it look more realistic

Marble Trap

• Good use of shading
• ‘Flower’ formation is more playful than previous version
• Suggestion: add drop shadow underneath marbles

Spike Trap

• Spikes itself are flat in comparison to board
  • Suggestion: draw at same angle platform
• Spike placement
  • Suggestion: make spikes even bigger
  • Suggestion: add more spikes/increase density
• Would be cool if it got bloody as the enemies walked on top
  • Suggestion: Space out the wooden texture a bit more (have less detail)

House

• Very easy to identify
• Rich details and suitable colors
• 3D perspective is fully considered
• Suggestion: remove the black stroke
• Suggestion: enlarge the size
• Suggestion: consider the effect of the surrounding map

Trap

• The size is too large for the map
• I don't know what the trigger looks like

Tower

• Looks like this tower is too short
• The colour doesn't look like a tower

Changes for Next Design Iteration

Trojan Horse

• Wheels
  • Make wheels 2-3 pixels lower in relation to wooden platform
  • Align wheels on opposite sides
• Horse
  • Make the horse larger
  • Add shadow underneath the horse make it more realistic

Marble Trap

• Add drop shadow underneath marbles

Spike Trap

• Spikes
  • Make more angular (adjust perspective according to grid angle)
  • Make larger
  • Add more spikes
• Wooden platform
  • Have more spacing between detail lines to make wooden texture more sparse

House

• Consider surrounding maps and add more land details (foliage, bushes, ivy)
• Increased size for a larger footprint (covers 4 grid tiles)

Trap

• Size can be reduced by 25%
• Add the effect map after triggering
  • Create animation effects using Procreate

Tower

• Increase the height of the tower by 10 pixels
• Keep existing colours but darken their shades
  • Add more dimension (2-3 shades per element)

Previous Sprints

Sprint 1