Studio 29/7/11 continued

So my tutor gave me a new idea to look at and that was to have an element of the pieces drop into the holes instead of the whole piece because it would create functional problems. For example have a marble in the tile and when it goes over the circular hole the marble drops in and the square tile is still free to move around the board, sort of like those children toys where you put the shapes into the holes.

 He also suggested working on a grid like the original sliding puzzles just so the tiles don't freely move around the board, maybe 4x4 or 5x5. He really encouraged me to look at the rough and smooth textures on the botoom of the pieces so that some are more difficult to move and to help boost that interactivity. One material mentioned was a fabric that moves really well one way but is hard to move the other way. This may be something I look at.