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harsh. Indirectly, there is an influence on player decisions, as the type of music that is
being played, be it positive or negative, can affect the mood and state of mind that the
player is in. This can affect the type of emotional response the player may have towards
the narrative, which in turn effects the players’ gameplay choice of either collecting all of
the positive or all of the negative tone-changers.
Playtesting
When I began the project, I considered a number of different ways that the players
could interact with typography. Ultimately I wanted to mold Type Set into a game, the
first playable prototype was on a keyboard utilizing a similar button layout to a
platformer. The keys A and D allowed the player to scroll between words that players
could manipulate with the up arrow and down arrow keys they could scale a word with
the left and right arrow keys players could rotate a word. The sentence that players could
manipulate was “Who the hell is calling me?” During the first play test, I discovered that
at the start, players had a difficult time correlating the actions of the manipulation of
words with intonation of voice. Once players where informed that the scale of words
represented different tones of voice they became more engaged. Some players began to
narrate out loud the sentence based on their manipulation of words.
The second playtest the decision was made to port the project to the iPad mainly
to see how affecting words through physical touch would influence the player’s
manipulation. This play test utilized the same sentence as the previous playtest and a