Jewels of Heuro Game for The Open University
- We built a game to promote computing courses at the UK’s largest university
- Featured hand-drawn illustrations and character designs
- We developed a rich, interactive experience, exploring computational problem-solving
THE AMBITION
The Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology at The Open University wanted an interactive to promote the computing courses that they had to offer. The brief was to create a fun and engaging game to provide an exciting introduction to algorithms and the use of heuristics for problem solving.
WHAT WE DID
We came up with the concept of an adventure game called The Jewels of Heuro. The game was set in the lost Temple of Algoritmo, in the heart of the South American rainforest. Inside the temple were the fabled Jewels of Heuro - protected by zombies who have guarded the jewels for manycenturies. As a treasure hunter, players had to collect all the jewels before the zombies caught them.
DESIGNING THE GAME
Our designers created a richly illustrated jungle adventure theme, including a choice of male and female explorer characters. The explorers were guided through the temple with the aid of a smartphone app that helped them compute the shortest distance or best route to collect all of the jewels. Through this, players were introduced to different sorts of computational problem solving.
Character Design
Initially called "Arizona & the Jewels of Heuro" and intended to parody an Indiana Jones style adventurer, the character design went through a number of iterations.
THE JEOPARDY
No game would be complete without a little jeopardy, and The Jewels of Heuro is no exception. The premise saw our hero raiding an Aztec temple. Originally we envisaged the hero being chased by Aztecs, but as the game developed, the temple was populated by zombies!
The game
The result was a great adventure game that presented complex computational problem solving in a fun and accessible way.
What we achieved
A series of outstanding digital interactives
Commissioned for The Open University's OpenLearn platform
The fourth interactive project we produced for The Open University
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