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

؜

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

Project Statement

؜Blunt Moves is an interactive fashion and business game where players build their own boutique, design clothing, and develop leadership skills while exploring luxury and classic Americana style. Blending physical AR cards with a mobile game, it teaches creativity, pitching, branding, and money management through play. The experience empowers players ages 10+ to define their voice, grow their confidence, and bring their unique vision to life.

Precedents

Conceptual Precedent

Name: Township

Technical Precedent

Name: Papa Games

Visual Precedent

Name: Carcassone

Sketches

Prototype 1

Prototype 2

Prototype 3

1) Add scenario cards that make the player take a business decision with the ultimate aim of running a sustainable business.

2) Integrate the AR founder with the pitch analyser webpage.

3) Add more players so the game works with

Next Steps

Project Statement

Our goal is to create a miniature DJ controller for anyone who wants to flesh out ideas on the go, while running an advertisement campaign. Our product is mobile, so you can just take it out and use it when you have an idea. Through this Project, we will explore the processes of design, production, and advertisement.

؜Begining Brainstorming

We only kept sections of common decks that needed tactile effects to them, to keep the feel that you would get for doing it for real. We kept the volume and filter knobs, cross and volume fader knobs, and the turntables.

Precedents

Conceptual, technical, and visual

Conceptual Precedent

Name:

Creator:

Technical Precedent

Name:

Creator:

Visual Precedent

Name:

Creator:

Sketches

Prototype 1

Prototype 2

Prototype 3

Prototype 4

Designs !!!!

؜Drawn by Vexx (sigma)

Designs

؜Drawn by Vexx (sigma)

FINAL DESIGN

1) Fully design the electronics, and connect to a softwere

2) Grow audience through the instagram account

3) Design custom softwere for users

Next Steps

Project Statement

This project aims to create a wearable form of immediate comfort for people who suffer from panic attacks. Following research about current wearables for panic attacks specifically, and compares their qualities. It uses that information to create a wearable that tracks, and responds immediately to oncoming stress.

؜Why?

؜Panic attacks can be debilitating, and affect someone's quality of life greatly, especially if you suffer with a panic disorder. ؜We want to try and help people reclaim control over their lives.

"I can be writing my name and it’ll happen. My nervous system is just SO dysregulated. It makes me actually unable to form sentences, I am deciding if I should go to the ER, I can’t think, or feel."

"it’s escalated from panic attack for the 15min before I go up on stage, to hours curled up in the hotel bed the morning of a talk, to being physically ill for ten days before even traveling and then leaving the airport because I couldn’t get on the plane."

"I’ve had panic attacks that made me sure something was medically wrong - even after being told I’m healthy."

Precedents

؜Research Precedent

Name: Emotional Intelligence of Machines

Creator: Lokesh Zope

؜Technical Precedent

Name: Galvactivator

Creator: Rosalind Picard

MIT Media Lab

؜Visual Precedent

Name: Embr Wave

Creator: Elizabeth Gazda

Sketches

Market Research

Prototype # 1 | Sensor Configuration

Prototype # 2 | Compression Draft

Prototype # 3-5 | Arduino Testing

؜Prototype # 1-10 | Housing for Electronics

؜Prototype # 1-3 | Glove

؜Prototype Final? | Final- For now

؜| Next Steps |

2.) Adjust Design for Practical Wearability

3.) Add compression

1.) Incorporate cooling mechanism

؜Our project is a buoy that fisherman can attach to an existing lobster trap to be stored underwater until a specified deployment time. While similar systems exist, they can be extremely expensive, cumbersome, and difficult to use.

؜Project Statement

Why

؜Of the 370 surviving North Atlantic Right Whales, 85% have been entangled at some point in their lives. The most common causes include lobster trap ropes and unidentified ropes. There are laws being put in place to try to conserve right whale populations. The lobstering industry is being forced to use ropeless trap systems that cost $1,000 minimum; our project aims to bridge the gap

Precedents

Conceptual, technical, and visual

؜Precedent 1:

Name: ARC-1XD Acoustic Release & STM-3 Deck Box

Creator: Desert Star Systems

Precedent 2:

Name: Offshore Lift

Creator: LiftLabs, a part of Dassault Systems

Precedent 3:

Name: Ropeless RISER

Creator: Ropeless Systems

؜Research

Conceptual, technical, and visual

“If you suggest ropless gear, and have never hauled traps in a trawl string set-up around other trawl strings, you are effing ignorant and should shut your face.”

؜“FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!! Every time a whale dies, every published picture of a whale tangled in a rope, garners MILLIONS of dollars for CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION'S executive salaries.”

“Talk about a SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID, Ropeless Lobstering Gear that depends upon Cell Phone Service????”

“Not only is cell phone signal a problem. Knowing where other lobstermens strings are so you don’t set over them is another. Goes to show the people dreaming this stuff up have little to no time on deck.”

؜“No lobsterman that I know would agree to a map to show where ALLL there gear is. That is like playing poker and showing everyone your cards.”

؜“Don’t make a case for “ropeless” being a good idea ever. If this gets forced on the industry it will more or less kill it. Very bad news this stuff is”

؜“I was reading that the idea to prevent setting over up gear is to have the fishermen mark on a shared chart where they are fishing gear.

Sure, right after I post the combo to my safe online.”

“will take most sport and commercial folks out at 1,000-2,000$ a trap”

“So the retail price will be high and the guys spending all the money on the gear will make less...”

“Ropeless is a scam. As always follow the money, the people pushing this are invested financially in this technology.”

“For the people asking they have proposed a common database that will show where traps are on some sort of chart but will hide individual fishermens info. Its just stupid, we will all have to buy new electronics n addition to this technology which I have worked with in a previous job. There will be lots more ghost gear.”

“Even with ropes people have set on my traps or fouled the lines, with our currents the buoys tend to be a ways away from the trap, and of course everyone wants to set their traps "near" my buoys because obviously I know what I am doing.. “

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 1

11/03 - 11/07















Print the bouy

Add the magnomatic to it

Calendar/ Milestones for OI

Week 2

11/10 - 11/14

Hook up the magnomatic to a motor

Get the circuitry working

Day for when something goes wrong

Lobster detection system

Put it all together

Week 3

11/17 - 11/21

Day for when something went wrong

؜؜PENCILS

DOWN

Day for when something goes wrong

؜

؜

MID REVIEWS

Sketches

Prototype 1 | Mechanical Release

Prototype 2 | Magnetic Release

1) Look into waterproofing

2) Implement waterproofing

3) 3D print a model buoy

4) Make the timing circuits and programming

Next Steps

What's the problem?

؜Of the 370 surviving North Atlantic Right Whales, 85% have been entangled at some point in their lives, most often by lobster trap ropes and other ropes. There are laws being put in place to try to conserve right whale populations, forcing the lobstering industry to use ropeless trap systems that cost thousands of dollars a trap, destroying the livelihoods of many lobstermen. This project aims to create a usable solution to both.

؜While systems exist to solve this, they are excessively overengineered and thus expensive, and have a much worse recovery rate. We aim to create an inexpensive buoy that fisherman can attach to an existing lobster trap to be stored underwater until a specified deployment time, at which point the buoy floats to the surface.

There is a solution.

Precedents

Conceptual, technical, and visual

؜ARC-1XD Acoustic Release & STM-3 Deck Box by Desert Star Systems

؜Offshore Lift by LiftLabs

Ropeless RISER by Ropeless Systems

Conceptual, technical, and visual

“If you suggest ropless gear, and have never hauled traps in a trawl string set-up around other trawl strings, you are effing ignorant and should shut your face.”

؜“FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!! Every time a whale dies, every published picture of a whale tangled in a rope, garners MILLIONS of dollars for CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION'S executive salaries.”

“Talk about a SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID, Ropeless Lobstering Gear that depends upon Cell Phone Service????”

“Not only is cell phone signal a problem. Knowing where other lobstermens strings are so you don’t set over them is another. Goes to show the people dreaming this stuff up have little to no time on deck.”

؜“No lobsterman that I know would agree to a map to show where ALLL there gear is. That is like playing poker and showing everyone your cards.”

؜“Don’t make a case for “ropeless” being a good idea ever. If this gets forced on the industry it will more or less kill it. Very bad news this stuff is”

؜“I was reading that the idea to prevent setting over up gear is to have the fishermen mark on a shared chart where they are fishing gear.

Sure, right after I post the combo to my safe online.”

“will take most sport and commercial folks out at 1,000-2,000$ a trap”

“So the retail price will be high and the guys spending all the money on the gear will make less...”

“Ropeless is a scam. As always follow the money, the people pushing this are invested financially in this technology.”

“For the people asking they have proposed a common database that will show where traps are on some sort of chart but will hide individual fishermens info. Its just stupid, we will all have to buy new electronics n addition to this technology which I have worked with in a previous job. There will be lots more ghost gear.”

“Even with ropes people have set on my traps or fouled the lines, with our currents the buoys tend to be a ways away from the trap, and of course everyone wants to set their traps "near" my buoys because obviously I know what I am doing.. “

Meet Mason Wallertson, Collective Persona

Age: 48

Occupation: Lobstering

Bio: Has been lobstering for 36 years, knows how all his equipment works. Would love to use ropeless systems but the high prices for very little benefit, as well as extra work keep him from buying any. He is also worried that the new regulations about ropeless traps being forced on the industry could hurt it significantly. One main gripe he has with the current systems is how lobstermen are expected to mark all their traps on a shared database.

؜“I was reading that the idea to prevent setting over up gear is to have the fishermen mark on a shared chart where they are fishing gear.

Sure, right after I post the combo to my safe online.”

Frustrations

+ Costs

+ Regulations

+ Complexity

+ Competition

Goals

+ Make money

+ Save whales without spending excessively

Skills

+ Lobstering

+ Boating

Wants

+ Simplicity

+ Low costs

+ To keep the same lifestyle

IMAGE

THE THREE PILLARS

1. Cost
2. Usability
3. Saving the Whales

Comparative Analysis

Whale Safety

؜Cost

Standard options

$100-$200

Common ones on market

$5000-$10000

Our buoy system

$200-$300

One feature that ours lacks is communication between the boat and the buoy, but we compensate for this with many redundant failsafes and extensive customizability

Sketches

Prototype 1 | Mechanical Release

Prototype 2 | Magnetic Release

Prototype 1 | Lobster detection

Prototype 2 | Lobster detection

Buoy Electronics (Not a bomb)

؜State diagram:

؜Half Scale Model

؜Full Scale Model

Next Steps:

1. Implement the lobster detection mechanism
2. Add the GPS modules and make a receiver
3. Do testing with real fishermen and in the Charles river

Thank You!