Sewing patterns
Here’s a glimpse into my notebook. I say, always have a notebook to scribble down any ideas. No matter how developed it may be, it may come in handy at a later stage which may not work for the immediate project at hand.
It’s always fun to look back on the scribbles that started your project. Seeing the raw sketches juxtaposed to the completed game is really something.
6 occupations with 6 garments each, means a total of 36 different pieces of clothing. Here are some of the garments I started out with, to get the idea juices following.
As you can see in the notebook, I am figuring out which garments to use. My goal is to make each white garments recognisable as a white garments. If you look closely, I’ve also indicated them with a small icon, what cleaning fluid is necessary for that particular garment.
This page of my notebook contains the infamous red sock. Ruin Whites was the first thing I wrote 😂. Soon Special Dye and Special Bleach got their names. There’s also the first evidence of card design. I wanted a liquid textured background for the items sit against.
If you look closely, I’ve got some symbols, such as ~ and +. There’s also some others like ↑↓, = → and - which are crossed out. Obviously these did not make the cut. What I had in mind was you could use these symbols to do equations to help you determine which pieces of clothing was ruined in the wash. It all seemed excessive for people to learn so it got scrapped.
Here we have a page where we developed the idea of having the little silhouettes. Originally the idea was centred around characters. You pick a character you wanted to play and you had to retrieve the clean garments from the washing machine, when you collected the correct garments associated with your character you would win. These characters had facial features. But ultimately the gameplay was different, and we needed some caricatures for people to recognise, it turned into another feature for people to depict between the occupations.
This is a screenshot of the final drawings. I used my iPad Pro to do all the drawings. Procreate, for those of you who are interested. As you can see, some of the garments are stained. In the end we removed the stains because it was getting confusing. During our testing, people would often think the stained white garments were the pink coloured ones. So we decided to leave everything white to limit the confusion.
Lastly, here’s a before and after shot to compare sketch versus polished.
Written by Quokka Jono