Prompt 2: Describe something you really want to do, but can't.
The game has created a motional scene, which is the water, the blue sky and the floating white cloud on the canvas to let the player draw on. The game also provided a wide range of tools to draw with, including 9 colors and 3 strokes or 3 shapes. This wide range of tool and the pre-build scene makes me want to draw some objects in it. The game encourages the player to use more colors and shapes, but there is also some limitation because the environment has already been given.
Since I want to draw actual objects like a fish in the sea, or a bird in the sky (given the scene) instead of random shapes and graphic effects that most other p5js games do, some things in the game is also stopping me from doing that. One important thing is that the game didn't provide any method to redo or clear the canvas. This would not be a problem if we are doing the random creative graphic, but when I'm trying to draw something, some sort of eraser or redo would be important.
From a designer perspective, it is also reasonable for not giving the player the undo button, because the player would be force to make other creative adjustment over the mistakes they make. This might create other surprising result rather than just let the player undo and draw their own object.
In the sketch, the drawing tool allows for you to practically draw anything you want. The addition of moving clouds in the background in the sketch is no real problem if the drawer does not want them in the final sketch, since it is quite easy to just draw a rectangle with the shape tool that blankets the canvas, covering the clouds. Though, it does slightly complicates things in the scenario that the drawer wants to retain a still image of the original background with the clouds in some spot. While it is by no means impossible to recreate it with the tools by drawing over the original canvas, the addition of a simple button that plays/pauses the moving of the clouds would be a functional resolution to this inconvenience without having to do a more complicated workaround. To clarify, creating the desired image is still possible with the tool, it is complicated by the impossibility of stopping the original clouds in the sky.
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Prompt 2: Describe something you really want to do, but can't.
The game has created a motional scene, which is the water, the blue sky and the floating white cloud on the canvas to let the player draw on. The game also provided a wide range of tools to draw with, including 9 colors and 3 strokes or 3 shapes. This wide range of tool and the pre-build scene makes me want to draw some objects in it. The game encourages the player to use more colors and shapes, but there is also some limitation because the environment has already been given.
Since I want to draw actual objects like a fish in the sea, or a bird in the sky (given the scene) instead of random shapes and graphic effects that most other p5js games do, some things in the game is also stopping me from doing that. One important thing is that the game didn't provide any method to redo or clear the canvas. This would not be a problem if we are doing the random creative graphic, but when I'm trying to draw something, some sort of eraser or redo would be important.
From a designer perspective, it is also reasonable for not giving the player the undo button, because the player would be force to make other creative adjustment over the mistakes they make. This might create other surprising result rather than just let the player undo and draw their own object.
Prompt 2:
In the sketch, the drawing tool allows for you to practically draw anything you want. The addition of moving clouds in the background in the sketch is no real problem if the drawer does not want them in the final sketch, since it is quite easy to just draw a rectangle with the shape tool that blankets the canvas, covering the clouds. Though, it does slightly complicates things in the scenario that the drawer wants to retain a still image of the original background with the clouds in some spot. While it is by no means impossible to recreate it with the tools by drawing over the original canvas, the addition of a simple button that plays/pauses the moving of the clouds would be a functional resolution to this inconvenience without having to do a more complicated workaround. To clarify, creating the desired image is still possible with the tool, it is complicated by the impossibility of stopping the original clouds in the sky.