Project Statement

Play-do is an inclusive playscape designed for individuals with sensory processing disorders, autism, and similar conditions. It features four rooms focused on tactile sensory therapy, providing even pressure along the body for soothing. Additionally, there's a playground accessible via climbing nets or stairs. While these spaces are made with the needs of sensory sensitive or under sensitive people in mind, it is a free and collaborative space that welcomes everyone, fostering play without stigma and encouraging consideration of each other's needs.

"Why?"

• Playgrounds are loud
• Playgrounds lack accommodations for sensory sensitive individuals
• Playgrounds lack a space to calm down if an individual is battling a sensory overload
• Playgrounds lack spaces for individual play

User Persona

Broad problem being addressed

• Sensory overload
• Classroom setting

Users interests

• Free play, Cats
• Horror
• Fantasy/Anime
• Rhythmic music (drums and bass)
• Fluffy and warm objects bring comfort to them.

Sensory Triggers

• Excessive writing by hand
• Bright lights
• Being forced to remain in order
• Not allowed to fidget in order to release anxiety

How does the user currently solve the problem

• By taking breaks and using the restroom, and sometimes using the designated neurodivergent space in their school

Name: Krysto; Age: 7

What is the problem with the way the problem is currently being solved:

The neurodivergent space often had a stigma associated with it which made the student feel as an outcast, The bathroom isn't the most comfortable space to soothe oneself

Product Goals

• It should be open and free to all students not just neurodivergent students and provide a space and comfortable space to everyone.

• We could use colours to designate which space is for quite space and which is for collaborative play Incorporate users interests in the product to further soothe them.

• Good lighting
• Prioritise comfort and coziness

Precedents

Conceptual, technical, and visual

A play device for children

Key elements for sensory inclusivity: Open ended, customisable, encourages motor skills, organic form

Biophilic design

Key elements for sensory inclusivity: Natural, Organic patterns, Lack of visual clutter, being free

Bands and bracelets for non verbal communication

Key elements for sensory inclusivity: Non-verbal communication

Sketches - Product

Sketches - Playscape

Prototype 1(Product)

Prototype 2 (Product)

Prototype 3 (Playscape)

Prototype 4 (Playscape)

Prototype 5 (Playscape)

Prototype 6 (Combination Playscape)

Final Sketches

Final Sketches

Reviewing Product Goals

• It should be open and free to all students not just neurodivergent students and provide a space and comfortable space to everyone.

• We could use colours to designate which space is for quite space and which is for collaborative play Incorporate users interests in the product to further soothe them.

• Good lighting
• Prioritise comfort and coziness

• The rooms will have paned or translucent glasses to allow for natural light to illuminate the room
• The rooms create space for comfort and privacy

• The entire structure is very customisable outside the doors they could be set as individual or collaborative play by the user
• The top piece creates space for collaborative play but doesn't enforce it

• The space welcomes all. However, neurodivergent students could choose to get prior permissions from their teachers to use the space outside of class time

Schools do a good job teaching subjects but often fail to spark a passion or even a liking for what they teach. While not meant for use in schools, this project re-introduces biological and ecological concepts through more exciting and whimsical means.

Fantastical Biology is an interactive website containing scientific ideas from Earth with alien-like creatures representing them. This website serves as a mediator between school and hobby, getting students who have an interest in science (but have yet to spark a genuine passion) to fully enjoy the subject of biology. It mainly targets fantasy and animal lovers and will spark an interest in biology through its various elements. Passion is important, and not just for mental health; it is proven that love for a subject leads to better academic performance.

Thesis

Precedents

Conceptual Precedent

Name: Fantastical Biology

Creator: Orion Orozco, Bridget Kraemer, Max Fuhrer

Technical Precedent

Name: Scale of the Universe

Creator: Cary Huang

Visual Precedent

Name: All Yesterdays

Creator: C.M. Kösemen, Darren Naish, and John Conway

How we did it

Schedule

Creature Design

Begin Website

Rough Sketches

Mid Review

Better Sketches

Foundation for website

Final Artwork

Writing

Finishing touches

Final

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Brainstorming

Sketches

Technical Diagram

Writing and Notes

Paper Prototype

Website Foundation

Website Prototype 1

Website Prototype 2

Final Artwork

Final Product:

Thank you :3

Background

When we started the project we were conflicted on what exactly we wanted the project to be. We wanted to make a FPS game with Sam originally wanting to make one about casting spells, but we both thought we could do something more interesting with the genre

Thesis

Big-budget first-person shooter games have gotten stagnant, stale and content with decades-old game design. While some smaller games have moved the genre forward, we plan to create a first-person shooter without any conventional weapons, forcing players to use their creativity and problem-solving to take out their opponents. It is created in the Unity engine and written in C#

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

In the first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Guiding design principals

Guiding design principals

The player needs to use the environment to take out their enemies

The player is given many movement tools to evade opponents

The player only has 1 health point, any damage taken will force them to restart

The first few seconds of a puzzle room the player is given a slow down in time to get a better look at the environment before everything becomes crazy fast

There should be many solutions to one problem, but not one solution to every problem

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

Levels are short and complex, they are meant to be replayed multiple times to find better solutions and get faster times

Guiding design principals

Sketches Option 1

Compile all sketches in one slide (delete this)

Creating the game design document

Constraints

-No trad weapons

Inspirations

-Interesting game mechanics that encourage exploration, creativity & have a high skill ceiling

-exciting player movement

-clean visual design

-intentional scaffolding of new mechanics and game complexity to keep it exciting but not overwhelming

We were specifically inspired by the

Sketches Option 1

Compile all sketches in one slide (delete this)

Process Diagram

Prototypes Option 1

(delete this)

Combat loop

Demo

Next Steps

• Improve the gravity orb player launch
• Improve the grappling hook
• Add enemies
• Add conduction effects
• General refinements to the movement
• Start working on tutorial level

Thank You!

Thesis

؜This project aims to show that not everything is in black and white, and that there are shades of grey. The story follows 4 friends, who are each struggling with different challenges. One friend gets injured, and the other three have strong emotions about it.

Precedents

Prototypes/ Iterations

Voice Actors

Charlie Whinnery

Voice of Oliver

Noelle Aminoff

Voice of Lexi

Bradley Kohistany

Voice of Terra

Final Photo

Reflections

Some things to reflect on

What did you learn in this process?

How does having more creative freedom helped you in this OI?

What were the challenges? next steps

Casper:

I learned a lot about 3d modeling and rendering, as well as tweening.

Creative freedom helped me work on a project I was truly passionate about.

The animation was the most challenging, as we had to simplify it for times sake. The sheer amount of drawing that was neccisary was also very difficult.

Mabel:

I learned about blender and and alightmotion, plus scriptwriting

Creative freedom really helped me with being able to make this project as unique as possible.

The most challenging for me was finishing the storyboards

Why

؜Over the past few years, the game engine that many developers have been using called Unity, has repeatedly made anti-consumer business decisions that have put the platform in jeopardy. Many developers have made the switch (including ourselves) to a new, community-driven, open-source engine named Godot. This project serves as an exploration of the Godot engine, its features and how our game development skills have evolved

What

؜؜Composition is a way to format a game's code, as well as its overall structure. Instead of having dedicated parts tied to an enemy or sword or player's code, it is broken up into smaller parts, such as health, damage, or movement, that can be added to any object in the game to give it the effects of the code. This allows us to reduce the amount of repeated code we have as well as rapidly increase the rate in which we can add in new features.

Thesis

This idea of composition takes form in our game, named Battle Arena Loop to the Last Zone. You play as the coach of a warrior ball, competing in the Tourney of Champions. As the rounds progress, you upgrade your ball's stats such as health or damage using a variety of cards that offer different effects. But if you lose, all your upgrades are lost and you restart at the beginning of the tournament.

Precedents

Conceptual Precedent

Technical Precedent

Systems Precedent

1. Ball physics felt fake

1. Need to add in the spinning weapons

1. Needed art (sprites) to enhance the visual experience

Prototype 1

1. Player and enemy need to have improved visual and audio effects

1. Need to rework how stats are being set

1. Many sprites need to be redone to match the same visual style

Prototype 2

1. The cards need to be improved visually

1. Need to add in particle effects to enhance the visual experience

1. Having issues with hitbox detection that need to be fixed

Prototype 3

1. The shop scene needs improved visuals and sounds

1. The game is not balanced

1. Add in-game over, loading, and title screens

1. Sound effects and particles sometimes play over each other and multiple times

Prototype 4

؜Final Art

؜Final Gameplay

Reflection

؜Thank You!

Project Statement

A game in which you use different weapons with different abilities, where you get upgrades to your weapons until you lose, at which point you go back to the beginning. The player has little control over the battle itself, instead influencing the battles by choosing good combinations of upgrades from those offered.

Why

We wanted to learn how to bring a game project from conceptualization all the way to a polished game. It's easy to make an unfinished proof-of-concept with a strong core idea, but it's a lot harder to make a fully playable game within the strengths of the NuVu studio system. A secondary goal for this project was to become more familiar with Godot, a fully free and open source game engine.

Precedents

Conceptual, technical, and visual

؜Name: Balatro

Creator: LocalThunk

؜Name: Crab Champions

Creator: Noisestorm

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Name: Brotato

Creator: Blobfish

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 1

11/03 - 11/07

؜Make a scene to select stat values and start the game

Fix stat values and implement sword art؜

؜Complete stat implementation and make an asset for the arena





؜Use feedback from midreviews to improve concept

Calendar/ Milestones for OI

Week 2

11/10 - 11/14

؜Begin implementing card data selection

؜Continue building card selection

؜Make battle setup

Play testing ؜

Implementing feedback And Bug fixing

Week 3

11/17 - 11/21

؜Gameplay changes and iteration

؜؜PENCILS

DOWN





MID REVIEWS

Prototype 1

Prototype 2

1) Implement random upgrade picker

2) Add UI for upgrades

3) Add battles and gameplay loop

4) Add polish and details

Next Steps

Project Statement

؜In collaboration with Troy Williams, we're developing a community-based hub for restoration on a ranch in Littlerock, California.

It focuses on the creation of a community space to build housing stability, social capital, and pathways to work via showcasing a myriad of creative outlets to its residents, allowing them to thrive in a discipline never considered before. It achieves this in the context of a shared land, allowing for an uplifting environment.

NEED SOME IMAGE HERE

Jasmine

Site Analysis

lloyd

Schools

Churches

Park

Site

Pedestrian

Car

Main Layout Cont but big and main one. No big need for title here

Private Space

Shared Space

Public Space

Charlie

N ->

Main Layouts

Charlie

N ->

N ->

N ->

Main Map

Charlie

N ->

Community space

؜- Warm -

- Clean -

- Inviting -

- Multipurpose -

Nico

Form studies

Nico

؜Precendents

؜- Connective -

- Open -

- Organic -

- Simple -

Final Idea

؜Other Ideas/variations

؜Tiny Home program

؜Bedroom

1. Bed
2. Closet
3. Night stand

Living room

1. Sofa
2. TV
3. Coffee table
4. Rug

؜Kitchen

1. Fridge
2. Countertop
3. Sink
4. Stove
5. Storage

Bathroom

1. Toilet
2. Sink
3. Bathtub/shower

؜Tiny Home Layout Precedents

؜Current layout

Kitchen

Living room

Bathroom

؜Bedroom

؜Enterence

Porch/Deck

؜Tiny Home Exterior feel:

1. Cozy
2. Open - Non Constricting
3. Not surveilled (private)

؜Tiny Home interior feel:

1. Warm
2. Inviting
3. Authentic

Jasmimne

Ampitheater Precedents

؜Nico

؜Layout precedents

؜Farmers Market/Gardens

؜- Connective -

- Open -

- Organic -

- Simple -

؜Market Furniture Style

In ground structure

؜Market Layout Precedents

Get something here

Farmers Market/Gardens

Seating

Outdoor Market

؜Indoor Market

Paths

Greenery

Garden

؜Studio Space

؜- Communal -

- Inspiring -

- Rustic -

-Inviting-

؜Space Concepts

Current Floorplan

First Floor

Second Floor

؜Studio Space - Precedents

1. ؜Blend of barndominium and rustic farmhouse.

1. Warm lighting.

1. Wood.

1. Steel/iron/stone touches.

1. Glass walls for studio/work spaces.

1. Large, open spaces.

؜Studio Space - Interior Style

؜Retreat

؜Bring up blue mind theory

؜- Private -

- Soft -

- Secure -

- Calm -

Equine-assisted therapy

؜Bring up blue mind theory

Horse spot

؜Horses can recognize human emotion to an amazing extent.

Due to this ability they are very thoughtful and supportive creatures.

Questions?

How does your vision align with the current layout of the space and aesthetics?

Would you prefer a different scale or different proportions between different sections of the ranch?

Does the direction we are taking this follow your original idea?

Project Statement

My project is about learning how to code in P5.JS. I decided to try and code a Pong game through Java Script. I had multiple steps I took to make this game including learning the basics, creating a simple game, making buttons, and learning the variables and different commands.

Why

I chose this project because it seemed manageable for my first O.I. I was interested in skill building. So I decided to learn programming with P5.JS. P5.JS is a learning platform for beginners that teaches you the basics.

Precedents

Conceptual, technical, and visual

Visual Precedent

Name: Pong

Creator: Allan Alcorn

Technical Precedent

Name:

Creator:

Sketches

Step 1

Page 1

؜Step 2

set speed

make button

set sizes and location

Step3

colors, score, resets ball

page 2

1) Try and understand the code more.

2) make easy, medium and hard modes.

3) Make more pages with options like settings where you can change the colors.

4) Make it single player option for the game.

Next Steps