{"id":19,"date":"2026-01-22T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-picture-studio\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:24:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/big-picture-studio\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-contrast-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-69a44bade1faeb6dcc2ea79214367c81 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7161298f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1da03c2a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-401b7a8a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"min-height:100%\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Big Picture Studio<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">INTRO <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\"><strong>Big Picture Studio<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary team creating a 20-minute, cooperative puzzle-narrative played across 4 mobile screens. Our experience focuses on cross-device interactions, requiring players to physically connect and rearrange phones to progress. We aim to evoke wonder as the seams between separate devices vanish to reveal a unified world. We are innovating how to use an existing platform (the phones) as modular frames, where distinct approaches (comic book panels, puzzle gameplay, film narrative) inform how content can seamlessly integrate into what best showcases this new medium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">GAME SYNOPSIS <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">The year is 0. A lone probe descends onto an emerald planet overtaken by alien life. Beneath moss and fungal growth lie remnants of a civilization long forgotten. Explorer Naiad must piece together the planet\u2019s buried memories, confronting questions about her own origins and the exile that brought her here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">PROCESS <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">We follow an incremental, &#8220;moments-based&#8221; approach, using prototypes that combine comic-inspired visuals with cross-phone mechanics. 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