Prompt 2
In my heart-of-hearts, I would really like to explore the creative options that the player is allotted in this game. However, the thing that’s really stopping me from exploring these options is the randomness of two of the three tools—Boom and Bop. Bam is a tool the player has a relatively high amount of control over; by selecting Bam, any point that is clicked on the canvas will create a colorful target shape, allowing the player to create a pattern of targets if they so please. However, with Boom and Bop, the player’s control over what happens is very limited. The player’s control is essentially bounded by where the player clicks on the canvas, but what happens next is well out of the player’s control. I feel like this one oddity, Bam, throws the game off a bit, in that the player has a high amount of control compared to the other two functions. It’s not necessarily destructive to the game itself, but it does mess with the organization of the game—that organization being complete and utter randomness (aside from the player’s control of where said randomness occurs on the canvas). I don’t believe changing this aspect of the game would be too difficult, and I think that making the target’s size randomly vary would bring back that sort of “random organization” that the rest of the game is filled with. Perhaps, in addition, the colors of the target could be randomized, just like how both Boom and Bap have randomized colors.
(WC: 254)