• 10.16.2011
  Updated Pattern game download with a finish screen and graphics for keyboard control help. (April)
• 06.08.2011
  Website is coming to completetion~~~! Characters and How to Play pages have been added!
• 06.02.2011
  Made a link to the executable for our game at Downloads but the exe isn't ready yet...On other news, Sammy Awards in a week! :3
• 05.31.2011
  Our last milestone presentation is done! Just a tinnie tiny more polish and we're ready for the our red carpet appearance! Please be nice to us xD!!!
• 05.24.2011
  Pattern has been moving it's way from simulation to being game-ified. Look forward to our new feedback system with voices, explosions, and numbers!
• 03.12.2011
  Everyone doing well during the weekend?
• 03.11.2011
  Presentation today, "OH MY GO---SH!!!"
• 03.10.2011
  I want to sleeeeeep :(
  I'm hungry but I have a sandwich that I could eat but not eating...lol.
• 03.09.2011
  3D yarn collision is hard...
  Rebuilding website

Welcome to team U.S.E.D.'s Project: Pattern!

If you don't know what Pattern is, you've come to the right place. I hope this site will answer all you know, and if not, contact us @ agrow@soe.ucsc.edu and we'll try our best to answer. :D

See our trailer here!

Get our game's executable here!

If you like our game, please join our facebook page here!

Game

Introduction

Pattern originated from the mind of April Grow and nutured with the help of Julie Rej, Jason Walters, Magnus Plutte, William Tuttle, and Katarina Yang in hopes to create a light puzzle game based on the priciples of crochet. Pattern aims to guide the player through a specific craft in order to lightly educate the player about crochet and foster creativity.

Pattern is a PC game that utilizes a USB XBox 360 controller. The purpose of using the controller (versus mouse and keyboard) is due to it's close action resemblance to finger movements during crochet. However, unlike crochet, we will be using quick flicks to represent the movements rather than actually simulating them. As for making it as a PC game, we felt that it would allow the ability to generate a community more assessible.

Story

The world has gone through a terrible event and objects from the world have gone missing. The Beautiful Benebolent Queen (BBQ) beseeches our main character, the Omnipotent Magical Yarn Guru of Awesome (OMYGA), to restore the world's lost objects. With the help of OMYGA's animal companion (mascot), OMYGA takes the BBQ's magical yarn and crochets items requested from citizens of the world.

Goal

Pattern's main goals are to educate people about crochet, to create a tool to help make crochet patterns, and to help build friendly crochet communites.

The story in our game introduces terms widely used in the crochet community, show yarn progression with interpolations, and have the movements on the controller simplified from actual crochet.

Making crochet patterns will be achieved by utilizing an in game tracking system that saves the moves the player inputs and compares them with a list of valid movements for stitches. The game can then print a list of instructions either telling the reader to use a common stitch or detailing the custom stitch.

The tracking system for the player's movements allows our game to export and share pattern files. This will allow people to share projects with friends, collaborators, and get projects from others to play and learn from. The ability to print patterns also allow people to have a hard copy of instructions to that can be translated to real directions to make actual objects.

Turn virtual crochet to reality.

Media

Trailer

Download our trailer in HD here! Or...watch it in SD here!

Screen Shots

Observe the transformation!

Final June 2011

Our level completion stitches!

Updated May 2011

Update Feb 2011

How to Play

Requirements

• Windows XP or higher
• Core 2 Duo or higher
• Gamepad

Setting up

• Go to Download to get the executable.
• Run installer » Run executable

Controls

Based on

• Xbox Controller
• Keyboard

Menus to Know

Options Menu

• Music: Adjusts background piano score volume
• Subtitles: Turns subtitles of mascot text on/off
• Sound Effects: Adjust sound effect volume
• Voices: Adjusts mascot voice volume

Pause Menu

• Save: Saves the game file
• Help: Shows all stitch actions and stitches
• Level Select: Takes you back to level select menu
• Main Menu: Takes you back to the front screen
• Options: Opens up the options menu
• Quit: Quits the game without a prompt

Happy crocheting!

Characters

Omnipotent Magical Yarn Guru of Awesome

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Beautiful Benevolent Queen

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Mother Nature

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Grandmother

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Plumber

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Boy

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Little Girl

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Widower

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Mascots

Hamster

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Dragon

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Team

Our Team is called U.S.E.D. a.k.a. Upside-down Strawberry Explosioning Dragon!

April Grow - Team Lead / Crochet Enthusiast
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Katarina Yang - Art Lead / Webmaster / Programmer
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Julie Rej - Artist / Dialogue Director / Physics Programmer
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Magnus Plutte - Menu Navigator / Programmer
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William Tuttle - Yarn Contortionist / Programmer
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Jason Walters - Combo Technician / Programmer
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Contributors

Musicians
Robert Bruce

Playtesters
First Batch
Second Batch

Download

I hope you like these!

Game Executable

Executable is working!!!

Download link: Pattern
Readme: Getme

However you can also go to How to Play to get the game running.

Character Designs

Wallpapers

Currently available in only 1200x800. (Subjected to change.)

Contact

To the Team:


To Robert Bruce: