Pressure Project 3
Posted: November 4, 2018 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Our third pressure project included these guidelines:
-Create a 3 minute experience
-user must touch something apart from the keyboard and receive a response
-Must include sound
-User must move in a large environment and a hidden mystery must be revealed
Though I tried to meet all guidelines, I based my experience off of the guidelines “user must touch something apart from the keyboard and receive a response” and “User must move in a large environment”. I wanted to encourage a physicality and adrenaline in the user experience. Inspired by simple video games, I created a game in which the user walked on a path made of aluminum foil and attempted to tag bananas to earn points.
The objectives of the game were as follows: Keep contact with the path, touch all bananas, beat the clock! Level 2 included the user performing these tasks backwards.
I intentionally placed the bananas far from the designated path so the user would have to stretch and reach to earn the points. Additionally, I included an element of time so that the user would have a sense of urgency in his or her movement. I was very curious about the human embodiment of a game that was inspired by a 2-D experience I played as a child.
As a whole, the experience was a fun time for everyone involved. I enjoyed watching the users try and beat the tasks and I think the users had a fun time playing the ridiculous game. My colleagues explained that this experience felt most like a game and that they felt a strong urgency to win.
Though it was a fun time for everyone involved, difficulties definitely arose in the system set-up(see video footage below). The path kept detaching from the floor and caused users to have to start over for no reason. Looking back on it, I should have taped the path to the floor so it wouldn’t move around as much. I practiced the game on carpet and didn’t take in to account the environment in which we would be playing it.
I really enjoyed this project and it definitely inspired certain elements of my final project game I am constructing!