Ideal Meal Design Document

Ideal Meal is an goofy, colorful and oversized team building game played in physical space. Players are challenged to pick up large ingredients using only long “chopsticks” and need to “prepare” these ingredients by performing specific actions without dropping them. The players must then throw or place that ingredient into the Ramen Bowl. There is usually an attendant who acts as a facilitator in order to call out each challenge, and provide commentary for onlookers.

The game originated from a prototyping class in USC Games’ Interactive Media Department, and then was refined and polished in order to showcase the game at various festivals through a Polishing and Post Production accelerator class.