Challenge Summary
Welcome to "AppXpress - SportsBam! Vault Mobile Game Apps Design Challenge". In this challenge we are looking for the Studio Community to help us create the look and feel for our new mobile game app that will be enable sports enthusiasts to have even more fun by predicting sporting event results. We are looking for creative, clean, professional and the best UI/UX possibility for this game app. Looking forward to see your participation in this challenge!
Round 1
01. Dashboard Screen
02. Results + option to bank streak Screen
03. Sporting Event List Screen
04. Sporting Event Details Screen
Round 2
01. Dashboard Screen
02. Results + option to bank streak Screen
03. Sporting Event List Screen
04. Sporting Event Details Screen
05. Result Predicition Screen
06. My Profile & Vault Screen
07. Leaderboard Screen
Background Overview
SportsBam is a new website for sports fans that bring new passion to people about sports by combining fun and exciting games with the allure of cash prizes. All year long, SportsBam users will be able to compete in entertaining contests covering all major professional and collegiate sports, with the winners taking home cash prizes. Some of these games are familiar favorites, like the March Madness bracket, survival games or the popular NFL Pick 'Em format. Others will be brand new games that will take the sports world by storm. One of those is the subject of this Challenge.
If this game were a movie, the tagline would be “ESPN’s The Streak meets Deal or No Deal”. In the game, players compete for a period of time (either a week or a month) to accumulate the most points. Points are accumulated for a streak of correct picks of the outcomes of sporting event options provided. For example, one pick option might be “The US Women’s World Cup Team will have 15 or more or less than 15 fouls in the quarterfinal match against China.” Another example might be ”The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds by more than 1 run or not.” After a correct pick, the player will have a choice : lock in the amount of points he or she has accumulated so far in the current streak, or risk those points for even more points by extending the streak with another pick. When points are locked in, we say they are put “in the Vault.” The player cannot lose those points for the current game. However, the player must now start a new streak. For example, the first correct pick is worth 1 point, the second correct pick is worth 3 points, the third correct pick in a streak is worth 6 points and so on.
Challenge Goals
This challenge goal is to create fun and engaging game app for sports enthusiasts where they can choose sporting events, guess the results, earn and collect points, choose whether to save the points in their vault and win the contest.
Main Features
- Games - picks for event results (targeting sport events)
- View results of events and game once games finished
- See Leaderboard/standings
User Flow
- User pick sporting events.
- If they are correct in the first game, they can decide to go for a streak (double points) or to save/bank the earned points in their vault.
- However, correct picks become more valuable the longer a streak is.
- For example, picking one game correctly results in a single point. Picking two games right is worth three points, three games six points, etc.
- That way, players need to apply strategy to win and it allows them to pull out a win with a long streak toward the end of a contest.
Design Consideration
- Create it for iPhone : 750px x 1334px
- Fun, Engaging, Clean mobile/application design.
- Please make sure your UI elements are created in vectors/shape, so it can be easily edited later for some smaller/bigger devices.
Branding Guidelines
- Reference the general design on our website https://www.sportsbamgame.com and attached files.
- Please ensure that we do not simply replicate the styles of the website
- Design Orientation : Up to designers.
Screen Requirements :
Please create the following screens in your submission :
01. Dashboard Screen
- By default, this is the screen will be appear every time a user runs the app.
- This screen should provide a summary of information about user progress in the games. That should include: current points, current pick; current standing in the game; time left in current game season.
- This screen should contain the latest news and offers from the game provider
- This screen should contain main navigation to start/resume the games and navigate to all the app’s features.
- User can easily recognize when the games have finished/how long the remaining time for play in this season.
02. Results and option to bank streak Screen
- First screen of games area
- Show the player’s current points in the game
- Show the player’s current working pick (sport event still active so no winners yet) OR most recent result played by the user.
- IF there is a result, provide option to put the points of that streak in the Vault or continue the streak. (Note that a user will have the option to change their pick up until the start of the sporting event)
- IF their answer is correct, they will get a notification to inform them that their prediction is correct and they can save the points to their vault or continue for a longer streak and enter another prediction for another sporting event.
- IF they lose, they will also will get a notification to inform them that their prediction is not correct.
- Correct predictions become more valuable the longer a streak is. For example, picking one game correctly results in a single point. Picking two games right is worth three points, three games six points, etc.
03. Sporting Event List Screen
- Show list of all active and available picks in the game.
- Needs to have a brief sentence explaining “the pick” available in this screen (See text examples in “Background Overview” above.)
- Needs Filter and Search area to be created on this page. It needs to be clear and intuitive; there are many sporting events and user needs to be able to find and pick specific sporting events that they would like to pick.
04. Sporting Event Details Screen
- After user picks sporting events, they will be redirected to this screen
- User can see all specific information about the sporting events here, who plays in this events, team members, referees, location, weather prediction status, etc.
- In this screen, there will be a button or link to start the fun where user can pick a guess/enter their prediction about the sporting event result.
05. Result Predicition Screen
- After the user takes a look at the sporting events condition, user can pick a guess about the sporting event result.
- Needs some way for the user to enter their guess/prediction, should it be via button, textbox, what is your idea?
- Needs some gamification interactions here, feel free to improve the UX here so user can become “addicted” to playing the games.
- After user picks their guess, they will be able to see the correct answer of the event once the event finished. (take user to go to 02. Results and option to bank streak)
06. My Profile & Vault Screen
- User will be able to see their progress in this screen.
- User will be able to check their play history along with some basic information necessary (level, win/lose, etc)
- User will be able to check their vault and see their earned points and it's detail (where it cames from, how many streak to get the points, etc).
- Social Media widget for sharing their progress and bragged about it?
07. Leaderboard Screen
- User will be able to see the global games condition in this screen.
- List of members with longest streak info? Top 10 Leaderboard globally? Best of the best amongst my friend?
- Social Media widget for sharing the leaderboard information?
Important:
- Keep things consistent. This means all graphic styles should work together and follow iOS best practice.
- All of the graphics should have a similar feel and general aesthetic appearance.
- Feel free to add new screen to explain your design interactions for the apps.
Documentation
- References.zip, Contains client logo, vault image, and PDF files that show the game as it looks on our website. While the app need not duplicate these, they should reflect our brand and style, which these images show. In addition, it would be good if the app uses the Vault shield.
Target User
- Sports enthusiasts, especially those who love fantasy sports or the picking winners/bracket/pool experience
Judging Criteria
- How well you plan the user experience and capture your ideas visually
- How well you design the mobile application concept!
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design
- Creativity and ease-of-use is key to the success as it must be engaging to users.
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.
Submission File
Submit JPG/PNG for your submission files.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop and saved as layered PSD file, or Adobe Illustrator as a layered AI file.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors. We may ask you to update your design or graphics based on checkpoint feedback.
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.