Team Size: 13
Timeframe: 4 months
Sprint Timeframe: 4 weeks (+2 weeks pre-production preparation)
Role: Interactive Editor
Key Contributions: Challenge 2
Learning Prompt: Identifies Synonyms + Antonyms
Date Sprint Completed: January 2021
The first full-length PAV of the second season of Noggin’s Missions series, “Race Car Rumble” asks the player to help Mr. Grouper & Mr. Grumpfish, and Shimmer & Shine, craft an “Antonym” Car and a “Synonym” Car, respectively, to challenge the player’s understanding of synonyms and antonyms. At the end of the mission, the two cars will race to declare the winner!
As my first official project at Noggin, working during a four-week timeframe in January 2021, my role was to craft Challenge 2 (C2), the crafting of the “Synonym” car. With the tile images given to me by the team’s animators, the interaction logic was very straightforward, with simple touch input logic that tracks the respective correct answer (CA) and wrong answers (WA) per interaction, and if the player chooses a wrong answer, different audios and programmatic wiggles will play to guide the player to the correct one.
As is the case with most Noggin missions, there are three separate “levels” (of four interactions each) in my Challenge (a total of 12 interactions), in which a player’s assigned “level” of difficulty is determined based on a player’s performance in experiences across the Noggin app.
My playthrough of this Mission is across Level 1 (L1), but Levels 2 and 3 (L2, L3) of the challenge are fairly identical to the first level in terms of logic, just with different aesthetics. Both higher levels (see below) replace the “synonym” objects of the 3rd and 4th interaction (i.e. a boat beneath a bridge & a battery under a table in i3, and a pencil under a table & an engine beneath a chair in i4). The only difference in Level 3 is that the first two interaction prompts replace “big” and “large” with “enormous” and “gigantic.”
This experience was a “race to remember, the opposite of forget. Mission accomplished!”
Matthew Floyd 