Color caster is pong meets MS paint. There is a marble or marbles in the center of the board. Each marble changes colors and approaches a players goal line. That player must hit the marble with the matching color to send it towards their opponent. As the marble changes direction, it changes color! Each player has a palette with the primary colors and an area to mix secondary colors.
Problems from the testing session- the paints were to close together, meaning-- that it was difficult for a player to grab a specific color. Laura, and I tried to rearrange the position of the paints on the paint palette. However, doing so, ended up leaving us with something that fixed the technical issue, but was pretty ugly. That evening, I looked at other iconic art tools, and decided to try a paint try instead of a paint palette. This gave more room for each color, and still fit with-in the visually language set by the art director.
The second issue was, it was very difficult to tell which colors were which. Specifically, yellow from orange, and blue from purple. This was more of a trial and error type fix. Because, what looked good on HD LCD screen didn't look good on the SMART table, which uses a projection (washes out colors). After a few tries, I got the colors right, by increasing the contracts and color saturation. Here's a few pics. of the current build.
