My Responsibilities
- Game Design
- Playtesting and QA
Description
Stupid Robot looks at everything but understands nothing. Can you help? Teach it as much as you can about the image. As it learns, it’ll want to know longer and longer words!
Stupid Robot is a quick and easy browser game that asks players to describe an image they are shown with particular lengths of words. The more word slots they fill, the smarter the robot gets.
Design Story
As part of Tiltfactor’s Metadata Games project, Stupid Robot shows players images from libraries’ digital collections, and simply by playing players contribute data to these libraries and make the images they “tag” more accessible to the world.
I assisted with the design of Stupid Robot’s simple mechanics, in order to give players a slightly more structured tagging experience, as well as to encourage more diverse sets of tags. I conducted playtesting with the target audience, as well as analysis of incoming data that players appended to images in the collection.