Programming Assignment Week 4:

Context-Sensitive "Health Game"

Due Tuesday June 7 by 6PM

This is a team assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to get you thinking creatively about how to combine some of the programming and design skills you have picked up and to help you head towards a great project. To create a killer app, you need to think about clever ways to use context.

You have two options for this assignment:

• Option one is to combine programing assignment 2 and programming assignment 3 and create a version of the Boggle game that is context sensitve and has a health or wellness spin. How to do this? That is up to you.
• Option two is to take a specific addictive mobile game and create a mashup bewteen that game and your project idea, and implement the game component of that. You MUST clearly articulate the specific properties of the game that make it addictive that you are exploiting in your transformation of it. Do not just say the game is "fun." It must be clear that your app has, in some way, emulated or taken the best properties fo the game and applied it to your project concept.

In this exercise, you need to exploit one or more of the phone's sensors. In the end, you should have a game that, like Boggle or the alternative addictive game you choose, has the following qualities and unique variation:

• Addictive
• Can be played over and over ... doesn't run out of content
• In some way, connects to health or wellness and helps someone achieve goals, helps someone help someone else achieve goals, or educates them in some entertaining way
• Uses the phone's sensors in a new, creative way that makes the game more interesting

Most (but not all, depending on project idea) of the games should be possible to play in short bursts while waiting in line, on the train, etc.

To do this well and in the time you have, you will need to employ paper prototyping. You will also need to reuse code from Programming Assignment 3.

Once again, you will add a new button to your Market app: "New Game: [Your game name]". This should run your game. Your app must look good, not crash, and be well-designed and fun to play but with a clever twist.

This assignment should help you continue to improve your Android programming skills and head toward an interesting project that uses context in a new way in a health or wellness application.