FORM III — ORGANIC. Duration: 2 week
By: Satish Abhane
Tags: Game Design, Board Games, User Experience, Play, Research

Key points for Study

Geographical / Topographical Importance

Natural resources

History

Play / Sports /Games

Culture / Religious / Spirituals / Rituals

Art and literature

Pollution

Meditation

Philosophy and metaphorical characteristics

Scientific and topographic study of rivers

River structure

Definition : Natural flowing freshwater resource flowing toward an ocean, sea , lake or another river.

Natural flowing freshwater resource flowing toward an ocean, sea , lake or another river. Cover around 0.1% off the land on Earth.

Rivers can flow down mountains, through valleys or along plains ,and can create canyons or gorges.

The river channel typically contains a single stream of water, but some rivers flow as several interconnecting streams of water, producing a braided river.

Many tributary streams meets togethers and to form a river.

Rivers are part of the hydrological cycle (water cycle).

Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff .

Other sources such as groundwater recharge, spring, and the release of stored water in natural ice and snowpacks.

Characteristics and features of river structure

Scientific and topographic study mind mapping

River’s Natural resources

Source of fresh water

Source of fresh food of human beings since pre history

Provide excellent habitat and food for many of the earth’s organisms.

Many rare plants and trees grow by rivers

Use for navigation

Use for transportation

Fast flowing rivers widely use for watermills and hydroelectric plant.

Some times rivers use for disposing of wast water.

Sand get from river, which is use in civil construction.

River’s Natural resources mind mapping

Historical / Pre historical study of rivers

A river valley civilisation is an agricultural nation

Civilisation situated beside a river.

Mesopotamia : Located between Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Located between Tigris and Euphrates rivers Ancient Egypt : Nile River valley

Nile River valley Indus civilisation : Indus River

Indus River Historical use of rivers:

Water used for drinking and agricultural irrigation

Source of fresh food

Transportation route

Navigation

Cultural / Spiritual

Geopolitical Ethnic boundary

Play / Sports /Games

Riversides

Fishing

Skimming stone

Ripple stone

River side tree climbing

Paper boat race

Under the river

Scuba diving

In the river

Swimming

Floating

Jumping / Diving

Diving

Fishing

Jet ski

Canoeing

Rowing

River rafting

Water Skiing

Parasailing

Culture / Religious / Spirituals / Rituals (India)

In India all natural forces including planets and rivers are personified as gods and goddess and worshipped

There are twelve major rivers in the country

Most important are the seven rivers which have historical, spiritual & cultural significance Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Narmada ,Godavari, Krishna & Kaveri.

Hindu mythology describes three principal Gods

Brahma the creator, Vishnu the sustainer and Shiva the destroyer

The Ganga, the Yamuna and the Saraswati represent the trinity of divinities in Indian culture. Saraswati is Brahma, Yamuna is Vishnu, and Ganga is Shiva.

Most sacred & holy place is the confluence of these three rivers at Prayag (Triveni) Sangam, the site of Khumbha festival celebration

Indian major seven river mind mapping

Art and literature

Poetry

Books

Novels

Quotes

Songs:- Folk songs

Paintings

Meditation

River is the good place for different meditation .

Listen: River water flow sound

Watch: River’s beautiful nature

Read: Reading on riverbank

Swim: Swimming In the river

Pollution

River pollution sources mind mapping

Key words ( Which is found me in a study of river )

Adventure

Mysterious

Forms and shapes

Journey

Connectivity

Thematic / Story

Awareness

Selection of three key words for design direction

Journey

Mysterious

Awareness

Ideations

Ideation -1

Ideation -2

Ideation -3

After some ideation , as per my interest and faculty feedback, I finalized the second ideation for detailing .

Board game design on River Pollution awareness

Introduction:People often go on river trips for enjoyment and pleasure . But when they get there, they unknowingly throw their garbage / trashes (Plastic plates , Plastic bottles, metal tins , paper dishes , alcohols bottles etc.) in the river or by the river side . As a result, the river water is getting polluted day by day and the oxygen level in the river water decreases, and phosphorus and other hazardous chemicals pose a threat to river ecosystem.

River pollution

Picnic trash : Board game on River Pollution

Concept and prototyping :

Game story plot :Mr. A, Miss. B, Miss. C, and Mrs. D went to a trip by the river side. They stay by the riverside for three days. Some of them throw their accumulated garbage into the river. The Garbage and sewage were polluted the river, killing the fish. So find out exactly who polluted the river in this game so he can be punished.

Game objective :To get maximum numbers of evidence cards. Guess the missing evidence card and find out who polluted the river

Prototype

Game elements:

Game board:

Game board prototyping

In the board the six tents are situated by the river side.

All tents are connected through pathways .

The red tiles is the secrete path, which is use for to cross the river .

Blue dots are the different starting points of the game

2. Suspects cards:

Suspects cards prototyping

In the game there is four persons are suspects .

The four suspects have different personal items .

In the each suspect card shown suspects name and their personal items

3. Evidence cards:

Evidence cards prototyping

In the each evidence card shown suspect’s personal item.

4. Notpad :

Notepad cards

Notepad cards use for the note down the evidences information in the game.

Game setup:

Game setup

Draw random one evidence card and kept on centre of the board.

Shuffle the evidence card deck and put cards on the tents as per photo.

Each player roll the dice.

Who got maximum number on dice ,that player will choose the any starting point and accordingly others.

How to play:

Move on the path tiles according to dices number .

You can move any where forward as well as backward.

Go to the any tent and collect the one evidence card .

See the card and announce your guess . Ex. You got guitar card , so you announce “ I think so Mr. A not polluted the river !”

After that All player mark on their not down card

The game will continue like this.

After some round you will close to your guess.

How collect maximum evidence card he will be winner Or If none of the suspects get five evidence cards, you can win the game by declaring your guess in the game.

Important rules:

If you get at lest one evidence card then you can declare your guess.

After guessing you will see the centre card and after that you still wait for end the game

In the end of the game winner will be decide.

User experience:

User experience and game testing

Final graphic design :

As per my user observation ,faculty and user feedback I changed some game elements like suspects names and their evidence cars items.

Picnic trash board game

Board graphic design

Suspects cards graphic design