Free Write 30 minutes

What are your personal goals for thesis 2?

My personal goals with the Thesis project is to give myself emotional support or release with past issues in a relationship where I can express them visually. I hope by doing this I can make a piece that showcases community with issues like these with people that have similar experiences.

Do a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats analysis of your project as it currently stands.

The strengths of the project are how I’m creating a story about two people/things who slowly drift apart. This will be told in a visually interactive way with the sense of touch without words. The experience is focused on bringing two people together where the users/players will be determined on how they understand what is happening.

The weaknesses are how do I deliver these interactions visually with animation or without them, within the current time span of the project. Last semester I didn’t get enough time to create the three scene of the story and map-out their interactivity. Another issue is how should I incorporate a visual-language or symbolism to tell the story as well. The fear here is that I’m slowly taking away from the project and trying to narrow down what is the most important aspects that I should focus on.

The opportunities are in telling an interesting story without text/dialogue which makes this interactive experience unique in the game design space. I believe that the project has great importance in the story-telling realm in games. I’m inspired by projects like “Gone Home” and “Florences”.

Where do you need most assistance?

I need assistance in animation and visual storytelling techniques where I can incorporate them well to get the main idea across, plus more resources about media that do similar things would be more helpful as well. I have been researching a similar project but how can I create a small scope project without losing too much time. I also need access to an IPAD since I don’t have one to test on.

Tell us your thesis focus

The current focus is to start creating the first three interaction in Unity than start adding the visual style to bring the experience to life. I also, need to begin testing or researching how to get this experience on an IPAD. I’m also researching how visual languages like glyphs and sight-language could be used in the project to give direction the user in the experience. 

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