Challenge Summary
Welcome to CSFV Gaming Site Storyboards contest. We’re happy to present this challenge to our talented community. We need to create an outstanding gaming community website, with high quality graphics, very appealing and also taking care of a rich user experience. You'll be designing 9 pages in this contest, are you ready for the challenge? Then register now!
Round 1
For your R1 deliverables please submit the following screens:
- Home
- Public Profile
- Achievements
- Tournaments
- Logged in Home (CSFV from wireframes)
Feel free to add some notes (jpg or text file) to comment your design features for the client.
Number your screens (01, 02, 03 etc.) – it’s easier to review.
Round 2
Final design will contain all the requested screens plus any updates from client feedback.
Feel free to add some notes (jpg or text file) to comment your design features for the client.
Number your screens (01, 02, 03 etc.) – it’s easier to review.
The primary goal of this contest is to come up with an amazing look and feel for the CSFV Gaming Community Site. We will be holding several more contests to build the remaining pages of this very large site, so get involved at the beginning! We need you to come up with stunning graphics for the site; it has to look appealing, fresh and very clean because we handle many components in the pages (user experience).
Please, carefully READ the overall site concept so you can understand what this site is about. Use the wireframes as guidance for the requirements.
What is CSFV?
The Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV) program seeks to make formal program verification more cost-effective by reducing the skill set required for verification. The approach is to transform software verification (testing) into a more accessible task by creating a game that reflects the code model. Basically, the users will be playing games and at the same time they will be making software verification. We are looking to use the tool to verify open source software.
Overall site concept
We envision this site as a global community with sub-sites focused on games, a nice mix of social features and heavy information delivery (social network + gaming website). The website concept is about breaking it down into global website and sub-sites, we will have 5 unique games, and each game will have a dedicated sub-site with content specific to that game, the main/global website will work as an aggregator of the sub-sites and as a Social network community, that means the sub-sites will have the same layout and navigation of the global website with different theme/colors/styles but delivering content specific to the game.
Global website will have the global items like activity stream, member profiles, registration, etc, more details below. The sub-site will be specific to that sub-site, for example, news, leader board, game content, contests, tournaments, forums/discussions, blogging, tutorials, how-to play guides, shared solutions, etc. Global website will have the same specific items as in sub-site but will be more like an aggregator for the 5 sub-sites, which means there could be some differences in how content in page are displayed, for example, a sub-site may have a leader board page with a single leader board that is filtered according to tournament/contest, member, date, while in global site it will have more filtering options, i.e. filter based game type.
This description is meant to guide you on how the site works. This contest only focuses on creating the site main theme design (social community). The sub-sites will be addressed in further contests. It’s important to note that target audience of the website is the general population, and not hardcore programmers or gamers. In a way it has to inevitable be techie, but has to appeal to a regular crowd.
Branding and Guidelines
- Use a place holder for the site name/logo.
- Use web-safe fonts for the pages content.
- Your design must fit 1024 pixels wide screen resolution.
- Colors are open to designers. However we don’t want to see dark or military colors.
- Think of web 2.0 when you’re creating your solution. We want to appeal to teens, and the general population.
- Maybe you have participated in previous CSFV graphic contests, so just in case, we don’t want to see any references to police, government, army or badges. Avoid any kind of “government look”.
- Consider we need to easily apply different skins or themes to the design. Make it easy to skin with another colors, replaceable backgrounds, etc, but keeping the same feeling.
Storyboard Requirements
1) Home
- This is the community site gate. Apply the provided guidelines to make this page interesting and outstanding.
- Wherever you see Game#1, Game#2, 3, 4, 5 is meant to be the games names. Just for your information.
2) Public Profile
- Show Personal Wall only.
- Create the rest of navigation elements for this page.
3) News
- Show list and details view.
4) Achievements
- Show only Leaderboards view.
- Create the navigation for the other items like badges, scores, etc.
5) Tournaments
- Show list and details view.
6) Contest
- Show list and details view.
7) Posted Games
- Show list and details view.
8) Logged in Home (CSFV from wireframes)
- Notice there is a floating chat at the bottom of the page. It’s a facebook/google style chat.
- Show the interactions/views on the header tool bar (friends, notifications, messages).
- Show the rest of the previous pages when the user is logged in. The main change is the header tool bar and the chat.
9) Own Public Profile
- Show Personal Wall, Messages and Friends pages.
Target Audience
Casual gamers, everyone who likes games from children to adult persons.
Judging Criteria
- Creativity.
- Easy skin capability.
- Quality of design.
- User Experience.
Submission File
All requested contest requirements/screens as JPG or PNG files at 72dpi.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop and saved as layered PSD files.
Preview Image
Create a 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode and place a screenshot from your submission within it.
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.