Facebook Assignment - Design

We have been given an assignment, as part of the "Entertainment Computing" course at UCLAN, the brief that we where given, was to make an application on facebook, that would be fun or useful. At the beginning of the design process we had two different ideas, they where quite different, but revolving around the same theme. The theme was, some kind of colourful application, which was easy to use and fun, so that many people of different computing experience could use it with ease. The first idea that we had was going to be a small 2D platformer, made using an app on facebook which you can use to build small games, called sharendipity, but unfortunately, the application was not really suitable for making . The other idea that we had was a smiley sending application, that would be small and easy to use. We decided to go with the smiley sending app, as we thought that it would be a lot easier to use, and would probably end up being more popular because it would have a lot of re-use potential, as people wouldn't finish the game and not play it again, whilst they might with the sharendipity app. So we decided to build on the "cabbit mayhem" smiley sending application. We wanted the application to be small and easy to use, but as fun as possible, with bright and eye catching smiley designs. The app would be used by people to send small messages over facebook with added emotion to the messages, so some of the "feeling" that can be easily lost in text, can be put back in, such as sarcasm, and silly comments.