Assignment 02

Shaiful Amin

Assignment 03

XB1000

Maze – Puzzle

 Introduction

This is essential an automated maze.  A complex branching passage through which the player must find the route. It’s one of a construction game that has multiple paths.

Gameplay Mechanics & Reasoning’s

Player will able to earn points and combination if get it done within time limit.  Player movement freely allows player to go anywhere back and forth as long the player finds its destination point. The whole game maze is revealed more and more as the game progress. The whole game takes place in the context of “The labyrinth”.

The player play as the dog who will have to get to hospital, there is certain time limit so if the dog fails to reach to destination point will eventually lose and will have to restart all over again from the start.

Solving

This is because mazes can be quite challenging and they require sharp thinking to solve. The maze solving is the act of finding its route (destination) from start to finish. If the strategy doesn’t work then player must come up another or find different path.

Educational

There are certain senses of personal objective that can be derived from effectively solving puzzle. The reason of this because Maze requires analytical skill

Memory Skills

Mazes can be solved more quickly by working at least part of solution back and forth. Player will realise they have to transpose action into reverse. Second thought memorise quite lengthy sequence.

Puzzle – Jigsaw

Introduction

This puzzle genre is based on construction puzzle. The Jigsaw is tiling puzzle need for particular purpose of assembly of numerous small and oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating the pieces.

Gameplay Mechanics & Reasoning

Puzzle ICO (Guessing)

When player guesses (solves or logic) In order to get the right picture of its puzzle.

There are 12 pieces has picture on it; when complete, a Jigsaw puzzle itself will produce a complete picture (Picture shown above).

The game mechanics are constructing of rules is to intend and produce an enjoyable gameplay.

This puzzle is persistence in solving and assembling the pieces.  Or one way to classify the puzzles could be:

·         Separate parts – Pieces are already  separated

·         Joining parts – The pieces are randomised and player must figure carefully which each piece join.

Interlocking limitation

The player has limits of making wrong move or placing incorrect pieces, if the player makes over three mistakes is game over.  As in puzzle there needs to be striction for a player so gives little challenge to the player.The reason to that is player can avoid mishaps of pieces, coming apart once they have been solved. These pieces are interlocked so they match and fit tightly together and it can separate if necessary. This makes the Jigsaw more comprehend to solve making it even more important for the pieces solved to stay in one place.

Method

The strategy of jigsaw game is to develop the skills and needed to participate in activities. It requires teamwork, listening and problem solving.

Background

Jigsaw is multifunctional and construction of teamwork learning. Jigsaw can be used in variety of goals but most importantly it is used for the acquisition.

Good for Brain

Jigsaw is an excellent activity keeping brain sharp. It challenges the player dexterity, reasoning and logic.

Social Interaction

While puzzle taxes player brain, it’s not so demanding that you can’t talk with friends or family while you are working on it. It is based on concentration.

Concentration

Eventually player will focus and concentrate on a task like finding the right piece.

Help Subconscious

Gives player subconscious chance to work on other things. Working puzzle allows mind to rest and work out other things. Players can always go back and forth to find the solution one way or another.

Word Search Puzzle

Introduction

The word puzzle has a letter words in grid, it can usually be in Square or rectangular.

Gameplay Mechanics and Reasoning

The objective is to find and mark all the words that are hidden inside of the square. The words can come out vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Many of word search puzzle theme to which all hidden words are related.

Word search can be more interesting by adding some challenges for instance put a time limit of searching the words. By either challenging player itself or by competing against other players head-to-head in a 10 minutes cash

Strategies

It is common strategy for finding all words by going through the puzzle by left or right of the word. After finding a letter for e.g. you found “Intelligence “ player should look at the twelve letters to see whether the next word is there.

There is another strategy is to look for outstanding words and it is easiest to spot the letters are Z, X, U and O.

Education Purposes

Word search certainly exercising players brain and increase vocabulary. It helps for the young students and education purposes. Its problem solving to find the words . An easy, fun acitivty and suitable for all ages

Rules

Word search is one of the most common, known and familiar of all puzzle games. The rules can easily change depending on the puzzle. Player has 10 minute to find all words in the puzzle

However every puzzle the words are hidden in a grid of letters, and player must find those words in grid before the time runs out.Players can save them a lot of time if they find a word in puzzle, their time will be extended to 1 minute per word.