the magical forest
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THE MAGICAL FOREST. Ken Leung. Overview. Enable users in the play area to collaboratively populate a lush, eclectic, thriving magical forest teeming with flora and fauna. Why?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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THE MAGICAL FOREST
Ken Leung
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OverviewEnable users in the play area to collaborativelypopulate a lush, eclectic, thriving magical forest teeming with flora and fauna.
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Why?The physical space is lushly inundated with accents and examples of nature (wooden walls, plants, aquarium, wood trim, stone floors, wooden sculpture, dark green furniture ...) and sounds of nature (babbling water)
The virtual environment should accentuate, ratherthan conflict with, this natural lushness.
If the room has so many things that originated from a forest, why not complete the context with a illusory virtual forest within the screen?
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Reminders of nature
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3D Game Environment
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ConsiderationsExperience should be immersive and engaging ...but not addictive
User should be rewarded for their interactions through an virtual ‘imprint’ of their activities, which will remain in the game environment for a short time
Experience should take into account the needs of children without disabilities, children in wheelchairs, and children with other disabilities (autism, epilepsy)
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User Postures (‘Footprints’)
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Basic interfaceCarpeted play area, separated into 10x10 grid of on/off ‘buttons’
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Children step onto a button to germinate the ‘growth‘ of a flora or natural object item (trees, bushes, boulders) on the corresponding tile in the 3D game environment
Child’s position in the environment will be denoted by a set of footprints.
If child remains on button, the object will grow until it reaches ‘maturity’
Once it reaches maturity, it pauses for about 10 seconds, and begins to glow, brighter and brighter until it ‘metamorphizes‘ into a forest spirit (cloud of particles)which wanders around the space, fading gradually over the next 2 minutes.
Basic Interaction
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Flora & Objects
Flora: TreesBushesGrassesMushroomsMosses
Objects:BouldersPebble PatchesPuddles
Flora and natural objects are ‘grown’ by users by ‘feeding’ one tile (i.e. remaining standing on it)
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Flora or object generated is random for a given grid square (you might get a pine tree one time, and maple tree the next) - variety is key, to construct an interesting forest
User must remain on the square to make it continuously grow, otherwise it will regress
(reverse its growth)
If a user doesn’t like the current object, they just need to hop off the square and then hop on again!
Flora & Objects
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As flora and objects grow, they:
Change in size (small->large)Change in ‘morphology’ (sapling -> tree)Change in color (dull -> colorful)
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Extra ‘perks’ for children in wheelchairs, that reverses the stigma of their disability (e.g. 4-tile-large objects reserved just for them)
Alternate growth behaviors for different body postures and movements?(lying down, rolling, running around)
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FaunaFauna are a background element -- little animals that are attracted to a ‘healthy‘ forest.
As the forest becomes more lush and populated, more fauna will appear and interact with the flora (reward for user)
Examples: Bees, Flies, Slugs, Birds, SquirrelsButterflies, Tree Fairies
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Creating An ‘Imprint’
Metamorphosis
Mature Flora Forest Spirit
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Meandering Forest Spirits
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Creating An ‘Imprint’Once a user’s object reaches maturity, it will begin to metamorphose into a a forest spirit (a cloud of glowing particles), which will meander around the virtual space
This is the virtual imprint of the user’s interaction, and is the ‘crescendo’, the payoff
It is something that the child can sit and watch in wonder, helping them ‘wind down’ from the experience
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SoundsNatural background noises (leaves rustling, wind blowing)
Sounds of fauna as they arrive in the space -- a ‘healthy’ forest create be a cacaphony of animal sounds.(birds singing, crickets chirping)
Complements nicely with the babbling brook (i.e. the fishtank) in the physical space
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Issues3D perspective -- objects in the front blocking objects in the back -- use translucency?
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- how to generate a lush forest without ‘using up’ user squares- how to