3. Ten Refined Sketches
Moving forward, we decided on three designs we would base our refinement sketches on. The sketch design ideas we chose as our top three were:
1. Random Kirby Meme Generator Button by Sophia
2. Alternate between Kirby's Copy Abilities Button by Sophia
3. a) Feed Kirby Button Variation 1 by Marela
3. b) Feed Kirby Button Variation 2 by Marela
3. c) Feed Kirby Button Variation 3 by Marela
We chose these three because we believed that we could expand these sketches to showcase Kirby's multi-faceted personality while uncovering what makes Kirby, well, Kirby. We knew that he loved to eat certain foods, he steals the
abilities of his enemies by inhaling them, and that there are a myriad of Kirby memes that exist online. We did not move forward with the other initial design sketches because we did not believe that they captured Kirby's essence adequately.
For example, we did not choose the "Kirby Paint and Canvas" sketch that I (Sophia) designed because we wanted to challenge ourselves by having just one singular button in our program instead of multiple. We also wanted our button to involve
Kirby's famous "inhaling" and transformation ability, thus why we scrapped the "Kirby Paint and Canvas" idea. Here are the top 10 sketches we came up with based on the aforementioned three sketches:
For our final product, we pulled ideas from several of our refinement sketches. Once we began to code our program, we decided on implementing the features of:
- Chef Kirby button that drops a variety of items every time it is interacted with as inspired by "Refined Sketch 10 by Sophia"
- Traverse through collection of Kirby memes and display them as inspired by "Refined Sketch 5 by Daniel" and "Refined Sketch 8 by Sophia"
- Kirby walks towards items that he eventually reacts to as inspired by "Refined Sketch 8 by Sophia"
- Change background depending on Kirby's active power (e.g. ice, fire, sword) as inspired by "Refined Sketch 1 by Marela"
- Kirby inhales copy items, transforms, and gains the appropriate power (e.g. ice, fire, sword) as inspired by "Refined Sketch 7 by Daniel"
- Kirby inhales food and reacts to it via sound as inspired by "Refined Sketch 4 by Marela"
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