Finding Group Members
During one of our briefing sessions and seminars for this project we were put together with different members of our group online to discuss the project and the different ideas that we initially had. During this session I talked to Lin who thought it would be interesting to create a detective story with brancing narratives which i also felt would be interesting having to incover secrets and mysteries around the environment. After this session I also began to talk to other coursemates to see what ideas they had and I have now chosen to work with Lin and Wanting to work on this project further based on some initial interests and ideas that we were all discussing. We have arranged to have a meeting over the weekend to discuss what we would all like to achieve for this project.
Project Ideas and Concepts
During some of our initial discussions over the passed few days we shared some of the different ideas or concepts that we have been thinking about individually to see what each other think of the different ideas. In one of the classes one of the ideas that stood out was Lin’s idea of creating a type of adaptation or idea based on ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ which is a story about a man who ages backwards and the full narrative shows his entire life from birth to death of that character.
While we initially started to discuss this topic, this then developed into an idea of the player being able to play through the life of a character and see different points of their life at different ages. This idea could relate really well to Virtual Reality because of the interactions and gameplay that could be involved such as moving slower than normal at an older age or of course seeing the world at shorter height if the character is a child during the experience. We all agreed to think further of these concepts to discuss later in our first meeting for the project.