Indeed, Sakaguchi claims that his studio Mistwalker dedicated an entire year of prototyping to answering the design question: how can we make the JRPG battle system more interesting and dynamic?
During a design sprint, the team creates prototypes designed to answer key questions with users at the end of the week.
This past March we hosted a remarkable three-day event, Emerge, built on the idea of "design fiction" -- using science fiction, prototyping, and collaborative storytelling to answer the question, "What kind of future do we want?" Emerge brought together writers and thinkers from many fields, including luminaries Stewart Brand, Bruce Mau, Sherry Turkle, Neal Stephenson, and Bruce Sterling.
And what if all this could be done by someone with no AI training at all? "Robotany," a game prototype from the Singapore-MIT GAMBItoGanswerb, wanthose answer those questions.
"Robotany," a game prototype from the CMS Singapore-MIT GAMBis Game Lab, is designed to answer those questions.
Students use prototyping, user testing, and business planning to answer their "How might we…" question and integrate it back into the business.
We show how a preliminary prototype implementation of our technique enables us to answer questions like: Is a baby formula inside a container pure or tainted?
To answer these issues various prototypes of smart assistive devices are developed.
Unlike a prototype or concept test, an MVP is designed not just to answer product design or technical questions.
Innovation Factory designers will be on-hand to answer questions and demystify the process of prototyping.
