Well Being Games
2015
Art Direction, UI Design, Graphic Design
Well Being Games are game series about educational and intelligent games designed for elderly. We had 3 members in the team includes one game designer, one programmer and me as a UI/UX designer in charge of art direction, UX design and graphic design.
The game concepts were to develop five games covers different areas such as creative thinking, memory training, social competition, music game and motion game. Here are the design from 3 of them and we are still under development for the other 2.
1, MEMORY
PATHS GAME
2, ATTENTION
TETRIS GAME
3, INTUITIVE THINKING
CARD GAME
4, CREATIVE THINKING
MUSIC GAME
5, FINE MOTOR TRAINING
BALL GAME
1, 5 games with 5 different colors as different themes
I used 5 colors for five games with same function layout to show the game series. With research from one article about elderly's (male and female )color preferences, I chose five colors as on the right to represent those five games which will show the content for the games as well as the emotion/tense in game.
Art & Game Content
COLOR SELECT
1, MEMORY
PATHS GAME
2, ATTENTION
TETRIS GAME
4, CREATIVE THINKING
MUSIC GAME
3, INTUITIVE THINKING
CARD GAME
5, FINE MOTOR TRAINING
BALL GAME
2, Sharing workflow for 5 games
In order to be elder-friendly, the workflow and layout were designed to be simple and easy to catch. I kept core functions for the game and designed whole layout to be a smooth flow. I chose to use popup and half screen instead of whole screen to show information for lower priorities, so users will always have better understanding about which page they are in and where to go back to previous page.
INTERFACE IN 3D SPACE VIEW
3, Graphic for game content
Keywords: simple, plain (no gradient), easy to recognize, bigger font
Feedbacks:
We promoted these 3 games and other game content to our target age group in Hong Kong, they like the simple graphic style for the game, also gave suggestions on providing more Chinese content including chinese language, chinese symbol and more game content.
Because of the limit to user interview about elderlys in different types, further use interview is curcial to make these game more elderly friendly and its better to have test users in different nations, educations and careers.
