Challenge Summary
Welcome to CSFV Circuitbot Infographic Design Contest. We need a professional looking graphic inspired in “outer space” that explains how to play an online game. It’s fun! Come and join.
Round 1
For your R1 deliverables please submit the requested infographic design.
Round 2
Final design will contain all the requested infographic design plus any updates from client feedback.
The primary goal of this contest is to design a professional looking graphic that explains how to play a game. This image will be placed on a web home page.
Infographics are commonly used to represent complex information in a very easy way to understand. For this contest, “easy to understand” should be a key point to consider as design challenge. You’re provided with game graphics and how to play instructions so you can analyze these and provide an “easy to understand” solution with very nice graphics.
Branding and Guidelines
- Use Minisite.psd as baseline for your work.
- Replace the infographic placeholder with your graphic, that’s your workspace. Don’t modify the width. Modify height as necessary.
- Colors and overall feel should match the provided site.
- Fonts are open to creativity. Use them wisely to make the design attractive, not busy. Declare your fonts according to the Studio font’s policies. If you don’t have any of the fonts from the provided storyboard replace them with Arial and add a note about it. You will be asked to replace the font if you become a winner.
Infographic Requirements
- See GameAssets.zip for graphic reference about the game elements. You can use them or design similar items; your choice.
- See Mockup.jpg as a guidance resource. This is a rough draft; you need to design something new and exciting.
- The following text explains how to play the game. However, you need to analyze it and extract/elaborate instructions to play that are easy to understand in your design:
GAME GOALS
- Explore the solar system.
- Develop new technology.
- Solve the Robot to Robot links.
HOW TO PLAY
Apogee station sits in high earth orbit. From here you command your remote robotic teams to harvest resource remote locations and transport them back to earth orbit to sell on the open market.
Select from a series of increasingly complex missions.
Send your robotic missions to distant asteroids, moons and planets.
dispatch Robots to the surface to assemble solar panels, ice mines, and other facilities.
Program Links between the Robots by activating Commands which form the basis for their operations.
Discover the interdependence of these commands to activate them in the most efficient order.
Use special tools to add, remove and streamline groups of links.
When the landing team is programmed they will automatically build the factory structure.
The robot built factories mine for ice, metals, and carbon; create greenhouses and human habitation; and manufacture propellant, robots, and starships which can be sold back to earth.
References
Use the following resources as infographic concept inspiration, DON'T COPY ANYTHING.
- Sample 1.
- Sample 2.
- Sample 3.
Target Audience
Players are expected to be fans of science, space exploration, technology, science fiction.
Judging Criteria
- Capability of explaining how to play the game.
- Quality.
- Originality.
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.