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When the player chooses to go to the next level, another kinetic typography
animation will play. This time the player hears the voice of a woman. Sarah, the woman
at the other end of the phone, will have a condescending tone. These lines of dialog are
represented as non-interactive kinetic typography movies with voice-overs to give the
player the feeling that someone is reacting to his/her choices.
The rest of the play-through follows this format, where the player manipulates the
lines of dialog of the protagonist to collect all of positive or negative of tone-changers,
and Sarah responds to those lines in a kinetic typography segment. The puzzles get more
and more complex, and new modes of manipulation of words are introduced. By the end
of the play-through, the player will have completed ten levels and finished the phone
conversation with Sarah.
Rules
Keeping with my goal of making kinetic typography interactive, I will now detail
how I catered the game design to meet that goal.
Rules:
1). Players can only manipulate the protagonist’s line of dialogue.
2) If the word is colored white the player can touch it with one finger to increase
the size, two fingers to decrease the size of the word.
3) Words that have a glow can only be rotated. This is done with a one-finger
drag.
4) Words cannot overlap.
5) All words have to be visible on the screen to continue to the next level.