Link:http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~zw1745/finalpro/first.html
Partner:Jamie
Description:
The user is a detective and basing on the information provided, he needs to catch a criminal and prevent the next crime from happening. At first we set the background that the user(you) is a detective and you have chasing a criminal for years. Then we told the user that base on the information, you need to find out where and what the criminal is going to do next. Then the user need to fill in a form to see whether they have collected the right information. Then there will be three endings. If you gather all the right information, you catch the criminal. If you get the wrong time, then the ending will tell you, you miss the time. Then, if you get the time and the location both wrong, the third ending will tell you, you make both of them wrong.
Process:
The preparation:
We first discussed the detail of the script. We plan to use the fire of the Notre Dame as a background. Then we find the map and decided to make a circle of the country then finally come back to Paris. Then we decided to make the investigation period for ten years. Since the fire is happen at 2019.4.15, the start date of the first crime is also in 4.15 but in 2009. We decided to set the first case in Germany, then make a circle come back to France. We set the date of the crime mainly using the number 4 and 15 so it is easier for the user to get the information. Also, we put a map down there so the user can check it. To make it more exciting, we set the time limit. We decided to set 8 clicks equals to a day and if you click 8 times, there is voice reminding you a day have pass. Also, we set the time count for each page, so after 20 seconds the page will close to make it more exciting.
Process:
The introduction page, we first draw the picture then we use final cut pro to make it into a video and add audio to it. In the audio part, we introduce the background information.
The information part:
I set up the information for each crime and decided the time and the story for each crime. I hided the name Esmeralda and Quasimodo(the major character in Notre Dame) in the information, hoping the user to find it out. In one of the case, I even named the couple’s name in Esmeralda and Quasimodo, hoping the user to find it. We also use the new of the white hat man as part of our story to make it looks like a criminal who is doing religious things. We also use the count function to count times so that after 8 clicks, the audio will remind the user of the time. The css is also a difficult problem and I spent a lot of time on changing that.
The ending:
We use the white hat man as a criminal as part of our story, so we cut the news report of the white hat man who was actually a firefighter. Jamie record the audio part and it perfectly match with the video introducing the ending. Then we set a html link so the user can go back to the start page to play the game again.
Further Inprovement:
- The user sometimes may don’t know which part of the page is clickable, so they may lose information. We can add some information that the map and the form is clickable.
- We think we can make the whole story more connected and improve the introduction part to add more information and make the whole script more perfect.