Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Monday, January 24, 2011

(MA) Presentation 2

Well, it's been two weeks.

Haven't done much since I've started work though. ah well.

Things to look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28mind_game%29

http://www.losethegame.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

(EN) Drawings





Tuesday, January 11, 2011

(MA) Group crit reflection

Many things were said, what I need to remember;

In a collaborative project, The key is to document what I do clearly.
The end product isn't the most important part, what I did in it and how I evolved is more important.

The project could be more of a work of art, instead of an application

Most important;
Instead of the barcode reader, may use OPEN CV, (computer vision) a program that understand silhouttes.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

(MA) Group Crit Presentation

Project presentation;

This project is creating a GPS based smart phone application, which will enable the users to interact with the real world in a series of mini-quests that will take them around a specific city.

We are doing this project with a friend of mine, who is a sociology student. Even though we both are looking into different subjects, the project is deep enough to fulfil both our research, and will be much faster to accomplish.

The project will be an application that will send the user around the city to complete a series of quests. It’s not decided yet whether or not for these quests to pop up whenever the player runs through a specific part of the town he lives in or he will be strictly sent to the places we want him to go, but basically as he completes these quests, he will get more complicated visions of several more buildings/monuments etc. that will give him the clues where to go next.

The objective of the game is to help the user experience the fact that the real world might be unreal, and what he sees is not what everyone else does. The idea of perception is quite important here. Although the project has various aims since it’s a joint project, I personally want to see how art and games can effect the perception of reality, and how the player experiences these steps his feelings and his emotions throughout the process. I really like the idea of using the mobile phone or any other object as a “looking glass” to the other side, and this "looking glass" idea could be investigated as well.

So what we’ve done so far is to go to Edinburgh and visit several places, take some photos for me to work with, and start the small storyline that will be the scenario for the game.

We will finish this process in two weeks, where I will go to Edinburgh one last time to go sight-hunting, find proper places for our scenario and gather enough data to work from London, and start the artworks. Then we will use the script and the artwork into a game.

Next will be the hardest part where we will work with a programmer to write the code for Android mobile phones. If we can’t find a programmer, we have a backup plan where we will use open-source barcode reader programmes which will again work with this project.