Inspiration
While discussing about comic idea, we came up with the issue of “budgeting”. We thought saving money is something that we always try to do, but definitely not easy to keep up. Thus, we decided to make a story of a NYUSH student choosing what he/she wants to spend money (from food, to necessities, and other items, etc), and remind ourselves to spend wisely.
Storyline
Within one day, with a particular amount of budget, we will provide daily circumstances that we would encounter in school and daily life(off to AB, taking lecture, having meals). Based on those, we are going to add some options that varies in cost: drinking coffee after lunch, going out for dinner, various options for waimai, and etc. In the end, the reader will either be successful in “helping” the character spend their money wisely, or they will have gone over budget.
Interactivity
For our comic idea, we wanted the reader to be able to interact with the story by clicking and making choices out of a set of options. In this case, the choices that “pop up” will be able to be clicked on and selected, thus introducing a change in the storyline (which differs based on what is chosen!). This is the interactivity we are aiming for.
Illustration
We got some ideas from Instagram illustrations, and also are thinking of making drawings of ourselves to introduce this idea to our readers (EX: “Welcome to our comic” “This is your task…” “Congrats/Sorry…” etc.)