DECO1800 week 4

Our activity for our contact session this week was to imagine and bring in 3 Trove based API's to share with our team.Our ideas would have to interact with Trove in some way and serve any purpose of our choosing, my ideas were:

• Strovy Mode: An interactive story that pulls in random elements from Trove based on a users preferences, that alter the main characters and images in a preset story.
• Trove Funk: This API will access Trove's gargantuan music collection and allow users to manipulate the sound quality with a funk meter.
• Trove till you drop: A Russian roulette style quiz game that forces users to face off in a Trove article questionnaire, correct answers are measured by relevance and the loser is banished from Trove forever!

At the contact session, we were all forced against our will to participate in a 6 hats of critique activity. This activity had every member in the group critiquing each idea based on 1 of 5 different categories e.g. objective criticism, optimistic improvements, things that you don't like.

During this activity, our team was able synthesize a new idea that incorporated elements from each of our members best API concept. Through synthesis we were able to create, Trove Breaker (the idea only). We decided that Trove Breaker will be a take on the classic block breaker game, incorporating article paragraphs from Trove to create words to insert into individual blocks. By breaking these blocks, users are able to reveal the entire paragraph and read it.