My question might seem a bit unusual, but I trust that this could be the right place for it. I'm doing a project for my studies in which I have to give visual feedback to subjects based on their brain activity. There are two things they can do for a reward, and one of the two should pay a lot more than the other. The usual way people do this is with a bar that increases in size. However, I find this a bit uninteresting and I'd like to make it more fun (or less boring).
Something less boring would be for example a balloon slowly going up in the sky; the small reward would be a temporary boost in speed; the big reward would be an even bigger increase in speed. Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of time to invest in programming this, thus my question to you: what would be the simplest way to implement something like this ? It can be extremely primitive. The only thing that matters is to have something that gives the impression that it moves and that is accelerates/decelerates.
PS If you're wondering about the programming language, well, the rest of my setup is done in Matlab so if you can suggest something using that I would be really happy.
Thank you