About the final project, my partner Lifan Yu and I come up with three project proposals. They are all inspired by the what happen in our daily life.
- be safe online
This idea come out when I was reading the news, there is a report said the elders are easier to be cheated because most of the elders actually are very “young” netizen in todays’ complex online environment. Be inspired by the children game for develop intelligence , why the elders could not have a game to let them know more about the negative side of the internet and practice to avoid the trap of the conmen.
First of all we are going to project the game from the computer to a larger screen. At the first, there is only a phone on the screen, you need to press the button to start the game.
Then the green and yellow light around the screen begin to sparkle one by one and use the speaker to play some gay music. Many small pieces of the scam text messages and fake advertisements flied out.
The next is the main content of the game, the player can choose true, confuse and fake to show his attitude.
If the player can respond the right answer for a certain number questions , all the green light will turn on and play a hilarious music, you can even get a candy as reward from the small machine beside you by infrared distance sensor; but if you fail all the red light will turn and play a sad music.
2.Save Me From Plastics!!
These days my partner focus a lot on the environment protection, especially the plastic pollution of the marine environment. We discuss about it and decide to make some effort to call fpr more people work on it. So through this small game we hope can inspire more people focus on the environment protection.
This game need two players to cooperate with each other, one plays as a human while the other’s role is a fish. The human need to pick up the plastic trashes before them fell into the sea, if he fail one, it will drop into the sea.And the ‘fish’ need to get ride off the plastic trash, if he fail to run away from the plastic, the fish will eat the trash. And after eating a certain number of the trash the fish will dead and the game end. The motion of the fish is control by two button while that of the human controls by mouse. This totally show that only the human stand with the nature that can we save our both home-earth! This game is for everyone, to advocate us to take action immediately .
Scott Snibbe’s – Interactive art: ARCTIC ICE (2008) https://www.snibbe.com/education-entertainment#/arctic-ice/
This little game really inspired me about what kind of game should we build to show the importance of the environment protection.
3. Scare halloHalloween
The last one is quite different with the former two, it is not and computer game but a sand table game. We use 3D-printer to build a sand table with rockery, tunnel. The player as a paper figure move according to a track, whose speed can be controlled by the computer. During his tour, he will ghosts waiting to suddenly appear on the way, a cross hang on the top of the tunnel which may fall down at anytime, a group of crow will suddenly ‘fly out’ by a hidden fan. Those are all control by the arduino while we also use processing to make the background animation which tightly connect to the movements of all the elements. What’s more we used a black curtain cover it on a metal frame which pretend to be a haunted house and use servos to control pulling it up and down.
This project is inspired by the animation made by my partner while is first taken out by me. It like make real models of all the elements in the video below and use the ardiuno to control its motion, and use the processing to make a background