Week 7: Feb 26, 2024 – Mar 1, 2024
- Final stage User Flow, LBE Interaction, Finalize first stage game UI
- Half Presentation
- Playtest with middle school students
We have built the infrastructure of our experience, and was able to finish the first stage of our experience. We will be start to finalize our first stage and start to build our second stage and final stage for our experience after half.
This is a demo video represents our current progress.
Design:
For the user flow, we have finished the final stage storyboard. Our final stage will lead the players to the history of downfall of Pittsburgh Chinatown. By all the building disappeared and leave only the Chinatown Inn, which is the only building left in Chinatown, players start to be brought inside the Chinatown Inn restaurant as guest to get food.
We have finished our first stage UI design by adding more storytelling and context to the players. Besides giving them role at the beginning, we also make their role meaningful by giving them a sense of community and how they should support each other by collaborate to enhance the experience.
Use the below link to play playable UI interactions.
Location Based Element
As showed in the demo video, we have set up the room for our experience environment. We have designed the exact table in the real world to match the table in the ARENA scene. We set up the room with lights that after the players purchase the wood and paint in the first stage, this will trigger Raspberry Pi and Arduino to turn on the light. We will be adding sensors to play sound in the future as well.
Art:
We started to draw out the transitioning 2D for Chinese immigrant that first come to the US.
We modeled NPCs for the experience and the avatar head for the players to role play in ARENA.
Tech:
As shown in the Demo video, we have adjust Prototype Demo of the first stage 1890s, adjusting avatar, we have also fixed the AR problem.
Before halves, we have some hands on for tech part for our project, and we have already build our infrastructure for our ARENA scene to achieve our goal.
- Python
- Learn to use ARENA API
- Strength
- Multi-platform
- Collaboration
- Limitation
- Performance
- Current Feature Set
Tech – Infrastructure
- Screen Space UI
- Avatar
- Scene management
- NPC
- Art pipeline
- Location Based Entertainment
- Help ARENA build a better platform for future developers