Saturday, December 10, 2011

Final project ------- My Dating Pet

What is My Dating Pet? 

My dating pet is a dating game that you can install it in your smart phone. It helps you find your right person for your life. Since smart phone becoming very popular these days and most of the people have smart phone in their hands. People can use my dating pet to find the person they might be interested while they are going to shopping or just walking on the street. Also user can use the avatar to talk to other users.  



How it works?

 Once users download the game and install it in their cell phone. Before they use it, they have to fill out their information such as age, hobbies, gender, and what kind of man or woman they are looking for. Then user can create their avatar which is the dating pet.  Then it’s all set.



When users go out and have their cell phone with them, dating pet can use GPS locater to locate where the over users at around them. Because all the users already fill out their personal information, so the dating pet will compare other user’s information and see if there is a match.



Rate system

There is a rate based on these users’s information. If the rate goes higher, that means two people’s hobbies and interests gets more similar. 5 starts is the top rate. While user carry their cell phone on the street, dating pet will show to the user how many other people they might be interested in around them. for example, the dating pet can tell users a person who has 5 starts rate is in half mile around you. So if you interested in that person, you can use your dating pet to talk to the other person’s dating pet. You can save other person’s dating pet in your chat list, and you can delete it anytime you want to. If both two people feel very attract to each other after chatting, then they can have a real date together.





How‘s my dating pet relates to the virtual world?

There is a virtual world only for all the dating pets just like second life, but it’s more real. If user lives in San Francisco, then your dating pet will also lives in a virtual SF with all the other dating pets who’s their user also lives in SF. Your dating pet can’t not go to the other place if you actually don’t go there in the real life. So where you at in your real life, then where is your dating pet at in the virtual world.  When you meets the other user, at same time, your dating also meets other user’s dating pet in the virtual world. If you start to dating with other user, your dating pet starts to dating with other user’s dating pet.



Who is my target user? Why do they need to use it?

My dating pet is game for any people who are over age of 21 and looking for a potential partner.  It’s very easy to use, users don’t need to do anything and don’t need to spend any time on the computer. All they need to do is just bring their cell phone while they go out.





What’s different between my dating pet and some other dating website such as match.com? And why dating pet is better?

Disadvantage of dating website.

There are so many dating website out there for people to find their right person, once you sing up, you just fill all your information and go to that website or check your email everyday to see who meets all your qualification and who fits your type.



Wasting time to check your email every day and spending too much time on chatting.



It can be difficult to really get to know if you are attracted to a person over the computer. You never know who is over the computer.



People who you fall in love with after chatting might live very far away from you. And some people just want to chat all the time; they never plan to meet you.



Why dating pet is better?

Basically dating pet can do the same thing as other dating website, but you don’t need to check your email every day, the only thing you need to do is have you cell phone with you while you go out. Because it can locate where the other user at in one mile around you, so obviously after the chat, you two will be able to meet and have a date. Also dating pet encourages you go out and date other person. For example, if you don’t have any experience of dating, then your dating pet will tell you when is the movie that she wants to watch in the theaters so you can ask her to go watch a movie.  You might wonder why my dating knows what kind of movie he/she likes. Because all the users already fill out what’s their hobbies into the game.





Is it secure or safe since other people knows where you are at?

Yes, it’s very safe. Because dating pet doesn’t tell you the detail about where the other user at, it only tells you the range around you. If you need to know the detail where other users at, then you have to use your dating pet to talk to other users. Also there is a setting in this game for you to block the other users you don’t like. Once people get blocked, then they won’t be able to use their dating pet to locate your position.

Friday, September 2, 2011

toontwon


10. Attempt some collaborative actions such as Chat and teaming up to fight Cogs. Describe the basics of what you did and the results. What were the limitations you experienced?


Good thing about this game is that even people already start to fight the Cogs, you still can jump into the battle. The limitation I find out is that you can’t give your tools to the other users.



6. Name several ways that you are encouraged to complete tasks and attain goals

  By playing each minim game, you can get jellybeans. Also after you beat the cogs, your level will go higher. 


13. What features did you find the most difficult to use and why? How would you redesign them to operate better?
You can’t increase your luffy points by using some tools, and it really takes time to restore your luffy points.  So I would redesign some kind of tools which you can use it anytime to restore your luffy points.   Like pizza or milk, when you eat it, you will get more “health”.