Team 8-Bit - Week #1

Team 8-Bit Presents "Mario Wonderland"

Welcome to Team 8-Bit's blog! This blog will be documenting the 5 week process of designing and spray-painting our bench near Hepner Hall at San Diego State University.

Week #1 - Finding the 1-UP Mushroom

Team 8-Bit sketching out a design after brainstorming.

As a group, we decided to do a design that revolved around old-school video games such as Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog and Megaman but soon realized that it was a bit of a mess. While sticking to the old-school theme, it then evolved into a singular topic of Super Mario from the NES catering to childhood memories/nostalgia.

This is where we began working, trying to figure out the scale of which we can emphasize our idea and possibly replicate the world of Super Mario. Finding the size of Mario would determine the size of our other shapes.

Rough draft of the scale we will be using.

It began to evolve as we added more characters and pieces so that we can emulate the feeling as someone were playing as they sit and watch the game unfold.

And thus we became, Team 8-Bit.

Posted by Nicholas John Howard
Edited by Christopher Tucay