Ideas - Ahh!

So! This week and last week I have been struggling to come up with some ideas for the mouse play project three.

I have looked on open processing a lot for inspiration, but some of the stuff I have seeing I think is perhaps throwing me off.

I also started to try and sketch ideas, but ended up doodling rubbish because I had no inspiration!

So far I have come with with some ideas that I think might be weak, but hopefully they might take me somewhere.... They are all to do with shapes, and as I like patterns and colour more than themes I think, but hey!... The one I like best so far is as follows:

When you mouse click a shape appears (lets say a square), then the square starts to take on a life of its own and bounce around the sketch, off the walls, if you click the mouse again, another square will appear and do the same thing etc etc - but if any of the shapes hit each other, something happens, they either blow up and disappear, or they just disappear. If you click and add too many shapes at once the something else happens, say they all blow up. Then it could lead to when you click the mouse as if to start again a circle comes up instead....so I am still toying with ideas obviously...the main thing here would be the user can control when more shapes are added, and where they begin, but after that, the shapes take on a life of their own effectively and bounce around and cause havoc if they come contact.

Another one was to play with gravity and have a whole lot of shapes and then when you click on a side of the sketch they all fall to that side, but it seem too boring - perhaps I could include something else?

Currently I have a lot of other papers requiring my time, so I haven't started playing on processing yet, I wanted to somewhat finalise my idea before then, and to do so I think I need to have a chat with my tutor to make sure I don't want time trying to do something a) too hard for me and b) too time consuming! I have basically all next week blocked out to work on it so hopefully I can have enough work done before the interim!!