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14 October 2010

Getting Started

Our group formed today in Project Planning & Management class.  Check out the About tab to meet the members.  Read on for a summary of our first meeting.

From the offset our individual vision for this project seem to line up quite well.  Things we agree on... adult target audience, loose narrative from the users point of view i.e. no particular sequence of events.  Mostly, we do not want a narrative based on game levels, or a project aimed at children.

Questions we asked ourselves today:

How will the user enter the space?
How will the user interact with the project?
What will the space look like?
Is the experience audio or visual?
What is the theme?

Siobhán envisioned a panoramic, all encompassing user experience, while Alannagh described an immersive experience.  We all agree our project will be highly physically interactive.

We talked quite a bit about the look and feel. We have more or less decided on a 'forest' environment.  Although it is worth mentioning that any theme would work with this project.  If rePLAY were set in a derelict urban area or a room in a house it would be just as effective.  Similarly it could be a smaller environment like a merry-go. Any place that can go from dead to alive, or motionless to chaotic has the potential of being brought to life through imagination and play.

Annie.