Thesis

The point of our experience is to educate people about the pros and cons of different types of energy sources including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and fossil fuels. To do this, we are creating a quiz. There will be two questions, if you guess the correct answer, you move on to the next question. If you guess the question incorrectly, you start from the beginning. Each dome is designed to be a unique experience for the user.

We messed around with the programming

Sketch

The Mid-Review helped us combine the dome and decision making.

Domes

We researched more about renewable energy types

Walk through hall making choices

The Escalator idea

We ended up at

our final project

Precedents

Wind turbines were the

first renewable energy

we thought of since it's

well known and there's

a lot to it.

We used solar since it's

a very common type of

energy that many people

use and know about.

Wind Turbines

Solar Panels

Precedents

We liked the idea of having portals since

they can make you

travel fast and would help keep our younger audience engaged.

We wanted to give the

player the ability to chose

their own path since

that can help people learn

Portal

Choices

Research & Inspiration

How much longer we can use coal

• We will run out of coal in 114 years
• This is if we stay at out current use

Teach about renewable energy sources and help people switch

It showed us that it is important to teach people about renewable energy since if we do soon we will run out of coal and oil.

Wind turbine power production

• In the U.S.wind turbines have the potential to power 940 homes for a full month

Try to tell people about wind turbines

We felt that we should talk about wind turbines since they can produce lot of energy but more need to be made and for that to happen people need to know about them.

First Concept Sketches

Hands

Options

Sketches

Tycoon

Drilling for Oil

Renewable Home Design

Mining for Fossil Fuels

Sketches

Choices sketches

Hall

Dome

What Worked?

What Didn't?

1. It conveyed a deeper meaning
2. It took advantage of VR

1. The power-ups

The Escalator Idea

A game where you're climbing up a

down escalator and you have different types of energy power ups to make you go faster.

Prototype 2

Video

Technical Diagram

Wind

Solar

Biomass

Hydro

Nuclear

Fossil

End Dome

Start Dome

Change #1: Adding the hints

Change #3: Making

the wind turbines spin

We made it so that you can go down into the dome and search for the hint to the question.

We wanted to add motion to our experience to enhance it, this

also added a sense of realism in our scene.

Change #2: Adding a

start and end dome

We felt as though the experience felt incomplete without a start and and end dome.

Reflecting & Looking Forward...

• Add sound.
• make you teleport better.
• make smoke move.

• work on things 1 at a time.
• make the view room bigger.
• give each dome its own terrain.

Final Images