West-Turn will bring back the experience of getting together with your friends to play games. Remember the times when you would get together with friends to play a board game? Or when you would all go to the arcade to play a shooter? Part of the fun was not just what you did in the game--it was the friendly nudges you gave each other, the laughter and frustration visible in your friends, the ability to sit back later and talk about the events in the game. In the past decade, this experience has become more and more rare, and Team West-Turn would like to bring it back. We are creating a memorable, innovative game that friends play together in the same space using their iOS mobile and tablet devices. We're working with SmileGate, a world-renowned game company, to make this vision come true. The game will use device-to-device local network so that players can play in their living room, at a park, or in a coffee shop, without the need for a complicated setup, or expensive equipment. It will also feature simple analogue finger gestures and will embody a game design concept familiar and accessible to North American audiences. The project is being produced at the ETC Silicon Valley campus under the guidance of Jiyoung Lee and Carl Rosendahl.
