One of the key gameplay features in Blossom Bristol is the ability to interact with the locations around you - to plant crops in the locations you visit around Bristol every day. As one of our design aims is to get people to explore the city, comparing locataions, we need restrict the ability of players to plant all their crops in just one location. One of our first design challenges to overcome was how we define a 'location' in the game - we highlighted a number of different options:

Following on from the last Media Sandbox workshop, we've been giving thought to how we'll be evaluating and testing the Blossom Bristol project, as well as giving consideration to how data will be stored.At Mobile Pie we run all our projects according to Agile methodologies - this involves constant cycles of building, testing then feeding those test results back into the next build stage. The testing isn't just a bug hunting exercise, rather we get the app in front of people and gauge their reactions either by observing them or through conversation.