-Interactive Trash-
Group Members: Hope, Katherine, Carlo, Sebastian
For this project, we hope to design a game on a website with an interactive comic format.
What we have so far is a webpage with the NY skyline. The story follows the journey of a trash bag once it’s carried into the NY harbor by a gust of wind. As the trash bag sinks into the ocean, it encounters different marine animals at different depths as indicated by the anchor on the right side of the page. Each encounter with a character (ex. microbead, plastic bag, dolphin) is accompanied by dialogue that has a fact about plastic in the ocean. When you move your cursor, the trash bag follows.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zdD4RLfsXtvCkGyYCND9d6UCBNt8_fDz/view?usp=sharing
The goal is to ultimately make our game more New York Harbor-centric. We hope to incorporate tools that scientists will use underwater such as a magnifying glass to draw attention to particles that go unseen such as microplastics that are as small as 5mm; more trash in the water to illustrate how most wastes do not simply float at the top of the water; and possibly new, unexpected ecosystems underwater such as recycled subway carts.
For this coming week, we will finalize on the storyboard, characters, and research; continue to work on the website by incorporating new characters; and begin to brainstorm on the audio component.