The Boingos

THE BOINGOS 

This is my 3rd major team project for year 3 in university where I was a designer and project leader together with 2 other designers.

'The Boingos' is a mobile platformer made by a team of 8 (in the beginning we were 6) - 3 designers, 1 artist, 2 programmers in the preproduction stage, and 1 designer left + 1 artist and designer joined. This project was given to us by our client Iain Percy who wanted to make an educational game for young children (4-7-year-olds and for both male and female players) that delivers a green environmental message, presented in an offbeat fun way. The idea was to connect the game with pre-made characters that Iain had made and used in his book, a short animation, and a set of toys: our job was to make a game based on them and expand the story and message!

The game is for Android - the idea is you can swipe on the touch screen, and you collect pies and chicken legs: our main character, Bubba can eat any leftovers denoting the environmental problem we humans have with throwing edible food and food leftovers/organic material that could be used for compost or used in other ways to harm our environment less.

The idea was for the game to explore all the Boingos character, we had developed plans how they would work but not enough development time was left to showcase it here.