Where to start?

Create an inspiration board

Do some research about arcade games. Collect images to inspire your design, these could be real games or ones made from cardboard and make a google doc or google slide. What key attributes (physical and function features) to they have that you like? List them on your document. This will help you with your design

You will be submitting this as part of your final outcome

Below are two examples of inspiration boards:

Gather Your Materials

One of the constraints to your design will be the materials and resources you have available at home. This creates a great challenge to think about how you can reuse what you already have to invent something new

Start with a sturdy box. This could be a plain cardboard box, shoe box or cereal box and gives you the dimensions to start with. Look in your recyclables for things that could be used for obstacles, paddles or added as decoration.

Draw your design

Once you have collected materials then draw a design for your arcade game.

You could use pencil and paper, jump onto Tinkercad and create a 3d model or use any drawing software you have available

You will be submitting your conceptual drawing as part of your entry for the competition.

Now its time to make!

It's ok if your final outcome looks a little different from your original plan. While you make your outcome you will be testing and improving on this first idea. Use a pencil to mark out where you will be cutting or gluing things to help you make sure it will be successful

Test! Keep testing to make sure moving parts of your arcade game work before moving on to the next bit. Make it work....and then make it better

I'm here to help. If you get stuck or need help to problem solve please contact me. I can't wait to see what you come up with this week!