{"id":1,"date":"2022-09-02T16:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-10-28T20:25:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:25:29","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 [8\/29-9\/2]"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1\" class=\"elementor elementor-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2114f80b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2114f80b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-401f6df1\" data-id=\"401f6df1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-786b191d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"786b191d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi, we\u2019re team Genscape! Last semester, the four of us came together to pitch the idea of developing a virtual reality project that explored the concept of lucid dreaming. The key pillar of our pitch is that we wanted the experience to be visual art focused, and to be emotional without relying on a traditional narrative. On the technology side, we wanted to explore how procedural generation could help create dream worlds that were unique and ever-changing. Our pitch was selected to move forward, and this week we got started taking it into production.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We kicked off our project this week by meeting with our faculty advisor, Ricardo Washington. Ricardo stressed that, as a pitch project, 1\/4s would be a big deadline for us. Since we did at least some of our pre-production over the course of developing our pitch, the faculty would want to see that we were able to capitalize on that by moving into production quickly. So, we set a target of having an early playable demo by the day of our 1\/4s presentations.<\/span><\/p><p><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Whiteboard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Whiteboard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Whiteboard-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Whiteboard-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Whiteboard-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Whiteboard-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming out of the pitch process our team had a fairly clear shared idea of what we wanted to make; however, we still had a few key decisions to make before we could fully move into production. What was our demographic? What was our specific setting, and what were the main mechanics of the game? How exactly were we going to use procedural generation to make the experience stronger? Answering these questions became the focus of our first week.<\/span><\/p><p><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-124\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LayoutDemo-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LayoutDemo-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LayoutDemo-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LayoutDemo-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LayoutDemo-1536x862.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LayoutDemo-2048x1149.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-125\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GazeDemo-300x145.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GazeDemo-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GazeDemo-1024x496.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GazeDemo-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GazeDemo-1536x744.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GazeDemo-2048x992.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team meeting on Tuesday provided the answers to many of these questions. We determined that we wanted to target our experience at 20-to-30-year-olds. We strengthened our core design goals by making them more specific, such as replacing the idea of \u201cno narrative\u201d with \u201cno dialogue.\u201d We discussed specific mechanics that could strengthen our dream world, such as making the world feel reactive by modeling the guest\u2019s gaze as an invisible object in the game world, allowing us to trigger various effects depending on where our guest looked. We also determined the scope of procedural generation we wanted to use\u2014our dream worlds would be made of discrete sections that could be procedurally rearranged, but all of the content within each section would be handcrafted, to give us the right amount of authored control over our guests\u2019 experiences. By the end of the week, we had prepared basic demos of both the gaze mechanic and a simple version of procedural level generation.<\/span><\/p><p><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-126\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Moodboard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Moodboard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Moodboard-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Moodboard-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Moodboard-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Moodboard-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next thing we needed to decide was what kind of setting we wanted to explore in our game. We knew from our pitch that we wanted to create 3 dream worlds, each themed around a particular emotion: fear, melancholy, or regret. We decided to focus on fear for our first environment, but that was still a broad topic that could take many visual forms.\u00a0 To get to a more specific answer, we developed a survey and sent it out to members of our target demographic. In it, we asked our participants about which colors, sounds, locations, and general concepts they associated with fear. As we got responses back, we found imagery that matched the things that were repeatedly mentioned. We used that imagery to create a moodboard that will guide the visual development of our fear-based setting. We also used this and other visual research to begin the development of our team poster and other branding.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We checked back in with Ricardo at the end of the week to inform him of our progress. He approved both of our work so far, and of the plan we had developed for approaching our 1\/4s deadline and beyond. He also encouraged us to push further into the ideas we had begun exploring, by going wide and ambitious in the early weeks of the project before narrowing down to our final product. Our work this week has set us up very nicely to do just that moving into Week 2.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-af8bcd4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"af8bcd4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7207d46\" data-id=\"7207d46\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-614d273 elementor-shape-rounded elementor-grid-0 e-grid-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-social-icons\" data-id=\"614d273\" 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Last semester, the four of us came together to pitch the idea of developing a virtual reality project that explored the concept of lucid dreaming. The key pillar of our pitch is that we wanted the experience to be visual art focused, and to be emotional without relying on a traditional &#8230; <a title=\"Week 1 [8\/29-9\/2]\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/hello-world\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 1 [8\/29-9\/2]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/genscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}