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game, I wanted to study the effect that interaction has on kinetic typography and how
interaction can change player interpretation of text.
Project Description
Type Set is an experimental iPad game that makes kinetic typography interactive.
The game narrative is about a phone conversation between the (nameless) protagonist, a
23-year-old slacker, and Sarah, the best friend of the protagonists’ girlfriend. The
objective for the player is to touch all of the positive or negative "tone-changers" in a
given level by manipulating the size and rotation of words. The words that can be
manipulated are the protagonist’s lines of dialogue. Players are directly manipulating the
words of the protagonist to change the tone of voice. Collecting a tone-changer will alter
the mood of the conversation in a positive or negative way depending on what type of
tone-changer is collected. When enough of either tone changer is collected, the player
may move to the next level. This means the player has the option to complete a level two
ways: by collecting all of the positive tone-changers or by collecting all of the negative
tone-changers. Depending on the way in which the player manipulates these lines of
dialog to collect all of a certain type of tone-changers, the narrative begins to branch.
This branching encourages players to experiment with the kinetic typography to solve
puzzles and explore the narrative.
User Experience
When the player starts the game, he/she is taken to a menu screen, which gives
him/her the option to begin playing immediately or look at an instruction screen. If the