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Week 2/Final:

The UX Diagram

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNFt9ceo=/?share_link_id=986014163403

What do your characters look like?

What is the color palette for your game?

What is the font for text in your game

Screenshots of the assets for lvl 1 objects

Screenshots of the backgrounds for all levels

Link to a functional prototype

Screenshots of the functional prototypes and final product

Challenges:

Some challenges I experienced was trying using scratch and transitioning screens from one to another!

Success:

Creating the characters and objects for the design!

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Video Game

Week 1:

Brief description of your game

Our game is adventure-style game that takes you through the events of uncovering a mystery at the Mansion on Nordfolk Street. You will play as a detective who is trying to figure out why the supposed empty house is disturbing the nearby neighborhoods.

Character(s)Description

You will play as the

Detective who is given this assignment and goes by the name Rebecca. She is not used to paranormal activity and is frightened at the thought of spirits

The Ghosts

Who roam the house and try to get you out by all means necessary, it’s your job to dodge them as you figure what events occurred in the mansion

Object(s)Description

Flashing Objects:

Objects that allow you to interact with them and continue through the storyline of the video game

Text Objects:

Text boxes that give context to who you are, what you’re doing, and what is happening next in the story

World(s)Description

1 World

The Mansion is the only world you will be playing in. Your character will roam around the house through it’s different rooms and hallways to find clues to what happened.

Level(s)Description

The levels depend on how far you get through the story. Level 1 tells you what happened and reveals the ghost. Level 2 reveals the motive of the spirits and level 3 gives you the opportunity to talk to and understand the ghosts.

Game Mechanics: How do I win/lose?

You Win by surviving the night and understanding the ghost and thier struggles. However, you Lose by getting killed by the ghost or trying to respond with aggression.

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Interactive AR Museum

What is it:

A museum that showcases the elements that correspond with each painting.

Images:

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VR Simulation: Immersive Experience

What is it?:

I created a world that represents the 5 stages of "girl". As you walk through the simulation you will encounter the first stage which is skin care yje second stage is makeup where you will pick makeup that suits you, the next stage is choosing an asethetic, Y2k, grunge, artsy, dark academia or soft, the next stage is picking a hair style, and the final stage is going to the mall

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Interactive Sculpture

What is being created?:

Interactive Sculpture that creates holograms of each graduated year

Why create this?:

The sculpture is an ppportunity for Spelman alumna to reminisce on their time as an undergrad and have to ability to show their children what it would look like to be a legacy.

How does it work?:

Input: Spelman Students must in put the year they graduated into the system

Output: The class banner and picture will appear in a Colombia blue

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Text-Based Adventure

The Story:

My adventure is through the show Total Drama Island. The adventure will be you (the player) trying to get out of TDI land. You've found your way there and need to win the whole game to get back to the real world. I chose this story because Total Drama Island is nostalgic to me and I wanted other people who watched the show to be able to play like they're a contestant on the island as well.

The Decisions:

The tree in the Miro workspace is you picking choices in order to fulfill the challenge. Certain choices are canon to the actual show, like for example, when you pick Leshawna as your character, she has to go to the Screaming Gophers because that's the team she was actually on in the first season. Another example is when you pick someone to jump first off the cliff, canonically, Heather gets thrown off the cliff first, so choosing her will be the right option. However, she fights back in the show and in my game so I force the player to either choose themselves or a different person. The gameplay ends with you losing the challenge, but I wanted to leave it at that since not only would it be too long of a game, but in the shows Leshawna gets robbed of the 1 million each season.

Feedback:

Some feedback I received, was including the options in the question. So when the player actually wants to make a choice, they aren't searching for it, but instead, they can look for it in the post/question.

Link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT85T3bwo/

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One Pager (Scavenger Hunt)

My Role:

I will be in charge of creating riddles and puzzles for a stop in the scavenger hunt. Using the innovation lab, I will 3D print and laser to create these things. Along with that, I will act as an actor for the game, and follow along as the participants play.

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5 Image Story

The Story:

“April please throw that makeup away, it expired in 2012!”, said April’s best friend Renee. “Makeup doesn’t expire, I’m hanging up on you!” said April as she hung up the Facetime call. April is a young adult living by herself in the city of Chicago. This interaction with her and her best friend is very common, occurring at least 3 times a week. As a young adult, who recently graduated from college, April is keen on saving money, especially on things she considers “unnecessary” like makeup. Foundations, concealer, brow tint, and even eyeliners date back to 2012 when mustache necklaces and bow ties were popular. Brands like Maybelline and Smashbox fill her organizer with packaging and products that are discontinued, apart from her cheapness, this is one of the reasons April holds on to her expired makeup. One day, while she’s getting ready for work, which is her small floral business called April Showers, she begins to apply her brown eyeliner on the top and bottom of her eyelid. April has never been the most coordinated, so naturally, she pokes her eye. She runs to the bathroom to wash her eyes out, but she gets dizzy, falls, and hits her head on the sink. The next time April opens her eyes, she’s staring into darkness as she hears hospital noises surrounding her. April is in shock at how she got to the hospital, but the nurse reassures her that she’s recovering in a couple of days. Her eye got infected, and she suffered a minor injury to her head. After a few days go by and with the help of antibiotics, the nurses can take the bandages off April’s eyes. A sigh of relief comes over her as her vision becomes lighter and clearer. When the last bandage reveals her recovered eyeballs, April is excited and grins for a second before she realizes something… she can see words above people’s heads. She thought it was a reaction to the medicine or a crazy dream, but as gets discharged and leaves the hospital, she realizes that this is reality. At first, it was kind of funny looking at people’s thoughts throughout the day. One person was thinking about an embarrassing thing they did 5 years ago, another was thinking of the dinner they’ll have tonight, and another was trying to remember the address of the girl they followed last night. April soon began to get weirded out by this ability she had contracted from an expired eyeliner. She followed the man who was thinking these disturbing things to the train station, where she saw him conjure up thoughts about planning and executing a kidnapping. With widened eyes, April is frantically trying to stop the man, asking people around her for help. After multiple people ignore her and think she’s crazy, she sees the man get on the train, and the doors close behind him. With no one’s help and only her knowing this man’s true intentions. April understands that only she can depend on herself.

The Images:

The first image is expired makeup, by the state of the products I wanted to show how gross and unsafe it is to use. The next image is supposed to imply that the makeup is being used, specifically the eyeliner. Next, I have a woman with bandages on her face, implying that her putting on the makeup ruined her eyesight and sent her to the doctor. I thought the next image would mean that you can see people's thoughts since the man is looking at the thought bubble. And lastly, the image is supposed to represent being able to see someone thinking of kidnapping a person.

The Classroom Feedback:

The majority of the class understood the idea of a person putting on makeup, however, they went deeper into the story and thought I was relaying a message of how society brainwashes women into being tied by makeup and how that represents them.

They didn't get the story right completely, however, one person did almost get to the ending, where they assumed expired makeup ruined a girl's eyesight.

What I would do to better communicate the story is to use more pictures or possibly draw my own. I think it was hard trying to make a story with such static photos. There needs to be more movement and action.

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The Pitch

Is a movie I created that follows a life young woman's successful True Crime podcast through a computer screen. Through her career as a certified Spotify Podcast creator, she lies and manipulates events in order to keep her channel afloat. Fortunately for her, it works, and she gains a wider audience and a bigger revenue. But unfortunately for her future self, she discovers her lies become truths in an attempt to stay alive from the events she thought were fabricated but became reality.

The story is told Unfriended style, where we see her life through a computer camera. This story connects to my life through my love for true crime. While being a part of the community that listens to crime cases while doing homework, walking, and other everyday tasks, I've noticed the desensitized parts of the community where people lose empathy and compassion. This story is a commentary on putting yourself in the position of the victims, and how words have power.

My budget for the movie is $5000, I will be rationing it out between the setting, actors, script, advertisement, and camera. The setting will most likely take place on campus in order to save money for the props, students will take part in writing and acting and will be compensated for their participation. The camera will cost $0 due to it being used with a MacBook, and advertisement will a well-crafted trailer shown to the AUC.

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