The year had finally ended! Woohoo :)
My presentation speech
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6tu4GXXSCEXMDBkZTZiMWItMmMwZS00ZGEyLWFmMGYtNjZmNDM1ZDllYzVi
My reference list
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6tu4GXXSCEXMTdlMDVhM2ItZWI1ZS00NzE0LWExMDctMTQxOTRlM2I4ZjY3
My powerpoint
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6tu4GXXSCEXNTNlYmM4MDMtNmU1ZS00OWZmLTkyM2UtYTAyMGM2OGViNTRm
Wednesday 28th September - Tuesday 25th October
We started the project UN-REAL on Wednesday. To get our brief we had to flow the clues in a treasure hunt. The last clue didn't work so well because it was held by another student who hid to well, and we were unable to find him.
New Zealand was a top secret experiment initiated by said people to see if the topside was livable. In our journey, this is all discovered by a guy called J. Crawford. The player was initiated into our alternate reality by a crazy looking man who shoved a piece of paper into the players hand, babbled something about being enlightened and was chased off by two men. The piece of paper was covered in mad scribbles but it also held a website for a video blog which the player went to. This video blog explained who the crazy looking man was - J. Crawford - and the situation. He also talked about seeing a wanted sign of himself that was the next stage in our journey. On the Wanted poster was a reward and a OR code.
The QR code lead to a newspaper website with a video article showing some CCTV footage of Crawford bomb diving some bushes.
When the player went to said bushes they found a USB stick, on which there were mostly corrupted files.The only file that wasn't corrupted was a medical file for Crawford from an insane asylum. On this there were instruction to either go to the CEO of the Asylum with the USB were you would get a reward for bringing in information on him, or go to Crawford himself. If the player went to Crawford location they would see signs of a struggle and an ID tag that lead to another room. In that room you would see Crawford struggling with the two men who chased him off earlier. One would ask for te USB and when you handed it over Crawford would break free and you would escape.
The main problem we had were with the quality of the artifacts, which looked amateurish and last minute due to print outs being black and white, the news article being shaky, and lacking volume, and the actions could have done with some rehearsal.
The other problem was that the player had half an hour to finish the journey that they didn't get to take in all the detail we had on our alternate reality. This also cause the moral choice between choosing the reward, or helping Crawford got lost. This also caused the fight at Crawford location to be over looked, this and the fact that the player came through a different door meant the the actors where blindsided and unsure of what to do. This wasn't helped by the player wasn't sure what was going on.
The brief was to create an alternate universe and introduce the players to it through a treasure hunt. We had to use two virtual and two physical items.
My group got hooked on the butterfly affect. We wanted to take something that had happened in the past and change it so the future, the world we live in today was different.
First we decided to have Nixon killed while he was visiting Mao causing a nuclear war. In today's time most of the world would have been a wasteland. New Zealand ( blogger doesn't believe Zealand is a word x_x) would have been a superpower because we were far away and had the resources to be self sufficient.
We modeled our journey around doing a USB drop, where a USB is left somewhere and the players have to find it and plug it in. Because we wanted to use this at one stage of our journey we decided to make the rest of the journey about why it had been hidden, what was on it and why you had to find it. We ended up with the USB having the cure for radiation sickness on it, the cure having been discovered by a government scientist. The player was brought into this world by the government group the scientist worked for because the guy had gone missing. As the player followed the clues they would have found that the scientist had been kidnapped by terrorist.
When the player was brought into the world they would be told their two targets. Save the scientist and find the cure to keep it our of terrorist hands. When the USB is discovered the player realizes that they can only follow one. It was a moral choice of either saving the scientist or saving millions by giving the cure to the government.
We then talked to our tutor Maggie who talked about the game being immersive. Instead of making a world and placing the player in it, effectively telling them that 'this' is the world as we know it even though if they looked outside they would see it isn't, we decided to keep it a secret.
We changed it so that it was the Cuban Missile crisis that had started the nuclear war.We then made it so that people had gone underground to escape the radiation.
First we decided to have Nixon killed while he was visiting Mao causing a nuclear war. In today's time most of the world would have been a wasteland. New Zealand ( blogger doesn't believe Zealand is a word x_x) would have been a superpower because we were far away and had the resources to be self sufficient.
We modeled our journey around doing a USB drop, where a USB is left somewhere and the players have to find it and plug it in. Because we wanted to use this at one stage of our journey we decided to make the rest of the journey about why it had been hidden, what was on it and why you had to find it. We ended up with the USB having the cure for radiation sickness on it, the cure having been discovered by a government scientist. The player was brought into this world by the government group the scientist worked for because the guy had gone missing. As the player followed the clues they would have found that the scientist had been kidnapped by terrorist.
When the player was brought into the world they would be told their two targets. Save the scientist and find the cure to keep it our of terrorist hands. When the USB is discovered the player realizes that they can only follow one. It was a moral choice of either saving the scientist or saving millions by giving the cure to the government.
We then talked to our tutor Maggie who talked about the game being immersive. Instead of making a world and placing the player in it, effectively telling them that 'this' is the world as we know it even though if they looked outside they would see it isn't, we decided to keep it a secret.
We changed it so that it was the Cuban Missile crisis that had started the nuclear war.We then made it so that people had gone underground to escape the radiation.
New Zealand was a top secret experiment initiated by said people to see if the topside was livable. In our journey, this is all discovered by a guy called J. Crawford. The player was initiated into our alternate reality by a crazy looking man who shoved a piece of paper into the players hand, babbled something about being enlightened and was chased off by two men. The piece of paper was covered in mad scribbles but it also held a website for a video blog which the player went to. This video blog explained who the crazy looking man was - J. Crawford - and the situation. He also talked about seeing a wanted sign of himself that was the next stage in our journey. On the Wanted poster was a reward and a OR code.The QR code lead to a newspaper website with a video article showing some CCTV footage of Crawford bomb diving some bushes.
When the player went to said bushes they found a USB stick, on which there were mostly corrupted files.The only file that wasn't corrupted was a medical file for Crawford from an insane asylum. On this there were instruction to either go to the CEO of the Asylum with the USB were you would get a reward for bringing in information on him, or go to Crawford himself. If the player went to Crawford location they would see signs of a struggle and an ID tag that lead to another room. In that room you would see Crawford struggling with the two men who chased him off earlier. One would ask for te USB and when you handed it over Crawford would break free and you would escape.The main problem we had were with the quality of the artifacts, which looked amateurish and last minute due to print outs being black and white, the news article being shaky, and lacking volume, and the actions could have done with some rehearsal.
The other problem was that the player had half an hour to finish the journey that they didn't get to take in all the detail we had on our alternate reality. This also cause the moral choice between choosing the reward, or helping Crawford got lost. This also caused the fight at Crawford location to be over looked, this and the fact that the player came through a different door meant the the actors where blindsided and unsure of what to do. This wasn't helped by the player wasn't sure what was going on.
Friday 26th August - Tuesday 27th September
On Friday the 26th of August we got our brief for the next project. Basically, it was to make a CD case for a CD with the sounds on it that we made in our last project. To start I doodled ideas, things that related to the sounds I had to use and the idea behind them. I also drew several doodles of how to open the packaging to get to the CD inside.
From these doodle I drew seven concepts. The idea I chose to develop was linked to movement. It was a pocket, the front which was folded like a paper fan and had the graphics of a stick figure doing a cartwheel. on different flaps. As I developed this idea it went from a pocket, to a box to a sliding case. The graphics also changed, incorporating the sounds themselves into the design. As the sounds where quick, squeaky, little beeps, they reminded me of old school games. The graphics on the packaging developed from a stick man doing a cartwheel into pacman, then into pacman chasing after the little dots.
My final design had two pieces of a half circle. One was smaller and could sit in the other piece. The CD would be inside the smaller piece and to close it the smaller piece would slide out and both pieces would form a whole circle. At this stage it was a flat disk.At first I was going to use a 3D printer to create me package. I designed the pieces on SolidWorks and sent them off to Olaf Diegal to get a price, and ask some other questions had thought of involving the 3D printer. But if anyone had told me he was not in the country for three weeks I'd forgotten. When he did get back to me he said to contact Andrew Whithell. So I did, basically the same email but changes addressing it to Andrew and not Olaf. The next email I got from him was asking if i was an AUT student. I was and I told him but this delay got me thinking. Was there another way I could make this? 3D printing seemed like taking the easy way, something I had been accused of doing before. So I decided to hand make my cases. I knew that pac-man had come out in the 1980's and that was when the first personal computers came out, and packaging went from being cardboard to plastic. I wanted it to have the feel of that time and the people who played pac-man. I decided to use paper mache for my package because it is reminiscent of something you do as children.
To do this I realisized I would need a mold of something to shape it around. As a had no flat circle dick thing I decided to use my giant M&M as a mold. I was bigger than my original design and was a spherical shape A quick look on the internet showed lots of recipes and tips. The recipe I did decide to use involved using one cup cold water, quarter cup flour and five cups boiling water, then stirring the boiling mixture till it cleared.This was an utter failure.
Nothing really happened. It never when clear or thickened. It was like white water. So instead I brought wallpaper paste. This just said to mix with four liters of water and leave for half an hour. Once it was made I used five tinfoil molds of a giant M&M I own to make five pieces. Originally these where going to be the outer pieces and when they dried I would make the other five pieces inside but once I had made them I decided that using them as the lower pieces would be easier. Once again I made five tin foil molds, this time one of each piece and placed paper mache around it.
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