Category: P2 Idea

How my space will evolve:

For Project 2, I’m thinking of tweaking the concept and orientation of the world a little bit. The aesthetics will largely remain the same, I’m just thinking of focusing on one layer on the world, rather than trying to incorporate all three levels that were in my original concept for the project. This will help in making the project more focused, and will facilitate an easier interaction for the audience.

I am also considering making the environment a little darker, shed more focus on the castle in the middle and give the world more of a quest vibe. I mainly want to achieve this atmosphere through adding relevant sounds/music, as well as changing the lighting and ambience of the environment.

Navigations:

The user can move and interact with the environment through walking around, in addition to looking up to see the sky and clouds. If there is time, I would love to figure out movement through flying on a dragon, although I’m not entirely sure how to achieve that.

Interactions:

• Interaction 1 – Lowering the lever of the castle gate, in order to open it. This interaction will be accompanied by creaking and groaning sounds as the lever is pulled and the castle gate opens; which will add the to the atmosphere of the environment. After lowering the gate, the player can enter the castle and explore the treasure, as well as collect the rarest teas/jewels there.
• Interaction 2 – Collecting and brewing the different types of tea, and this simply acts as increasing the inventory and health points of the player.
• Interaction 3 – Fighting the ogres stationed outisde the castle gates. Not sure how I can do this (maybe set a timer), but it would be interesting if the ogres and player can engage in a small swordfight before the palyer advances into the castle. This would be accompanied by the sounds of swords clanking and ogres groaning.

Transformation Idea:

The transformation for me is from taking the pictures/assets I have to making them a navigable experience in a rectangular room ( like a corridor/room in our dorm) I want it to be work more on the auditory experience and introduce Fog and discernability. The push would be for the images to become clearer as I approach closer, And for the sounds to lead the experience. In a way I want it to feel like these objects exist in the room and they are being unveiled.

Navigation of Space

While I might try out the navigation experience, I still want the navigation to be relative to the room. For this version, I’m thinking of using a very specific dimension room and making the app-specific to it which is a typical 4 bedroom dorm room. As of now this still looks like augmented in terms of being in the space.

Key Interaction

1. Finding Source of Audio
2. Uncovering Artwork
3. Touching something to have it make a noice/spew objects

• How my space will evolve:

I’d like to add more storytelling aspects to it, I want the forest to feel more lived in with more things like the camping chairs I included in my project one. I was thinking about changing the story to the user wanting to make the forest feel more alive (Including more in the interaction ideas).

• Navigation:

Walking normally with the phone in addition to being able to climb up all pine trees to see a wider view and a few teleportation hotspots for the sake of people with smaller spaces.

• Interaction ideas:

1. Enemies: Similar to project 1’s enemies but more thought out including the user’s hands in order to attack and having a more responsive experience rather than just clicking them with one tap.
2. Planting: The user would be planting more mushrooms and plants in order to make the user help the forest grow and prosper.
3. Populate the area with creatures/Take care of creatures: Adding various animals to make the forest feel alive. Or there would be creatures and the player would be able to feed them and pet them.

• Images:

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• Screen recording:

I think I’m changing my topic slightly- I can’t incorporate an entire murder mystery narrative into my project, so I’m making the narrative more geared towards finding a diamond (or something else) hidden somewhere in the house.

I want the viewer to be able to walk around the room (free navigation), and for sounds to change as they move closer or further away from objects- like the fire gets louder if you move towards it, and the wind gets louder if you move towards the door.

I’m considering making my project more sound dependent, so maybe you discover more clues as you move towards different sounds.

Also- just in terms of details- I’m planning to add windows and wind blowing outside. Considering making the windows interactable so you can open or close them. Also will add books on the table maybe, just fill up the room a bit more and make it bigger, right now it seems a bit bare.

To make the environment creepy, I’m going to dim the lights further, so the only source of light is the fire and the windows.

Interaction 1– you swipe at the globe and it spins around (with the sound effect “whoosh” or “spin”), maybe opening a secret passageway which you can climb down (like the climb up thing we learned in class) leading to another room (not planning to have this room super detailed though) behind a locked door.

Option 2- Alternatively, the globe has a keyhole.

Interaction 2– There’s something peeking out from underneath the carpet so you kick it aside with your foot (no idea how to do this, will go to office hours) to reveal a key but you have no idea where it goes- maybe opens the locked door downstairs. when you discover the passageway it gets “highlighted” sort of like spidey senses.

Option 2- The key goes into the globe which turns on other lights in the room.

Interaction 3– You look at a window and it rattles, swinging open and shut, with the sound effect “creak” and the wind gets louder.

The screen recording doesn’t have interactions yet, it’s just a converted AR format- I need more help with interactions. I also need to make my own globe asset so I can separate the globe from its stand to spin it. Also may need to do the same with the rug.

My World of Despair AR vs My World of Despair VR

This AR world will allow users to navigate freely in the space provided. They will get a sense that they are walking, climbing, or falling as if they are in a real world. In the VR world however, users feel like they are entitled to go to those specific locations because they need to click on a hotspot to relocate.

Interaction Ideas

1. Free Navigation

Similar to my VR world, users will be placed in the middle of the ruined city to heighten their curiosity and sense of exploration. However, instead of jumping from one point to another, users now have the ability to walk to where their hearts desire. They could use their hands to open doors and pick up objects. To climb buildings, they could use their legs to push them up and hands to grab on to the buildings’ bricks.

2. Free Fall

My AR world will also include several teleportation hotspots. When users step on these hotspots, I imagine the following could happen:

1. Users will be teleport toward the sky and then they will fall down toward the ground. As they are falling down, they can see all the buildings below them getting bigger and nearer. They can move their arms as if they are swimming to slow down their fall.
2. Besides falling through space, users are also falling through time into the past. Thus, in addition to seeing buildings becoming bigger and nearer, they see those buildings reverting to their pre-destruction conditions. As they land on the ground, they will notice that their surrounding has changed dramatically.

The environment of my fantasy pinball will be transformed into AR for Project 2. I am hoping the space will evolve with more navigation options that would enhance the user’s experience of feeling trapped in a pinball game. I am planning to expand the layout by adding enclosing walls (as show in the sketch above) that you could climb up but not be able to escape the space anyways. The environment is navigable through walking, hotspots (for a larger perspective on where you are) and climbing.

The interactions that I am curious in implementing here are:
1) being able to kick the pinball with your foot
2) play with the flippers by tapping on the screen
3) jumping over the ball

Unfortunately, I am currently experiencing several issues. My project 1 layout had a lot of 2d backdrops for visual effects but they do not show up properly as you can see in the recordings. Also, my hotspots and totem objects don’t show up when the app is running on the phone.

• A screen recording of the WIP app
• Few screenshots of the WIP app
• 1~2 sentences of:
  • Thoughts on how will your space evolve with this transformation
  • Thoughts about “In what way makes the most sense to navigate this space”. Consider how can the world view of the space benefit from the navigation
• Identify 3 key interactions for your Project 2 (Suggestion: why not try something weird and uncertain?). Think of actions involving one body part (hand, foot, head, etc) and an “object”. For each interactions, consider why and how