Research - Mapping and ARGs

maandag 31 januari 2011
Mapping

I am trying to use Prezi to map out my research and process. It is till a bit of a try and error to use it but I have a feeling that it might work for me.

Prezi website


Alternate Reality Game

The ARG genre is a big inspiration how to use the world as the platform of the game. Even though one might know an ARG there is no real definition of the genre. There a different views on what makes an ARG. I remember when I went to the ARGfest 2010 that there still many ways to use the idea of an ARG. During my visit there I sometimes felt that they might make the games a bit to hardcore and therefor never really get the mainstream audience to play along.

This brings me to a post I found of a company that do make ARG like games. He explains many things I have also observed. Though, he wrote this in December of 2008 I feel that these issues still are current.
Everything you know about ARGs is WRONG

The thing I am mostly curios about is what they call the Rabbit Hole. The first contact between the players to the actual game. How do we guide them to the game and keep them captivated to play.

Concept - Research Process

donderdag 27 januari 2011
Next to the project itself I want to show the research and how I have used the research. I was thinking to use a mind map as a platform.

As I was looking at different mind maps I had an idea I might want to do for the final presentation. I have fantasy about actually making a paper map, like road maps. This map will help the reader go through the pieces of information. Right now the pieces of information would be small video presentations, which probable would be hosted on youtube.

This idea came to me when I was looking at different diagrams (previous post) and the map of a city-game called “The Jejune Institute


Inspiration - Mindmap





Presentation - The Idea

dinsdag 25 januari 2011

Inspiration - Interaction

vrijdag 21 januari 2011
MASQUERADE - book by Kit Williams





Color Codification Dot Drawings
- Lauren DiCioccio

Lauren DiCioccio is an emerging artist living in the Bay Area, an hour south of San Francisco. Born and raised in Philadelphia, DiCioccio received a BA from Colgate University in 2002 where she studied art and art history. Though academically trained in painting, much of her current body of work employs the medium of embroidery, which she learned at an early age from her mother. DiCioccio has shown her work at venues in San Francisco including: Jack Fischer Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, The Lab and the SFMOMA Artists Gallery. In 2011, her work will be shown in exhibitions at the Bellevue Museum of Art and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

To make each painting, I lay a sheet of frosted mylar over a magazine page. I assign a color to every letter (numbers are shades of grayscale) and apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page according to my color-code. Making the paintings is a lot like solving a cryptogram and the result is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout, a kind of Braille for the color-inclined.





















Geocaching Fun


Inspiration - curiosity shop

donderdag 20 januari 2011





Inspiration - manga

XXX Holic

Yuuko is a witch who grants people's wishes, but in return the person has to give up something precious. Watanuki Kimihiro, a man who has visions, encounters Yuuko and she promises to get rid of the spirits that torment him. In return Watanuki must work in Yuuko's shop and help her grant other people's wishes.

Read Online








Petshop of Horrors

Count D, a petshop owner in the vague and mysterious world of Chinatown, sells his merchandise in the form of love and dreams. An American policeman, Officer Orcot, comes to investigate Count D after many unexplainable deaths were reported. All victims had one thing in common- A pet purchased at Count D's petshop. New characters and animals are consistantly passing through Chinatown, and every story holds a moral.

Read Online





The Tarot Cafe

Pamela is the owner of the Tarot Cafe-and also a powerful clairvoyant, willing to tell fortunes for a price. She caters to more than just your average schoolgirl, though. Vampires, fairies, and all manner of supernatural creatures visit her after midnight, to hear their futures and recieve advice about situations. While Pamela is good at giving everyone else advice, she must someday deal with her own dark secret...

Read Online

Concept - First Draft

1 (Werk)Titel:
Curiosity Shop

2 Project omschrijving:
(Omschrijf in een paar regels wat het project inhoud)
Er is een magisch winkeltje met vele vreemde objecten. Alle objecten hebben hun eigen verhaal maar als je er iets beter naar kijkt ontdek je dat alles toch wel verbonden is met elkaar. Dit is een Rabbit Hole dat de speler leid naar een groter verhaal en avontuur.

3 Doel van het project:
(Wat wil je met je project bereiken)
Door verschillende vormen van nieuwsgierigheid te kweken hoop ik de spelers tot een tocht te leiden dat onder ander het gevoel van ontdekking creëert. Ik wil dit wel graag doen binnen de midden mensen herkennen, iets dat al onderdeel is van hun dagelijkse leven.

4 Doelgroep:
(voor wie maak je het?)
De doelgroep is op dit moment moeilijk te beschrijven. Al speel ik in op shoppers met het winkeltje idee, het zijn wel de soort mensen die van aparte dingen houden. Het is misschien een onderdeel van de onderzoek om te pijlen wat voor publiek er op af gaat.

5 Werkwijze en techniek voor uitvoering:
(Hoe ga je het doen en welke techniek zet je daar voor in)
Een belangrijk element is mij nog niet duidelijk en dat is het verhaal. Wanneer ik het verhaal heb kan ik hier uit weten wat voor soort puzzels en uitdagingen ik zou moeten maken.

6 Presentatievorm:
(Welke vorm heeft het uiteindelijke project voor je beoogde publiek en hoe ga je het op je examen laten zien)
Bij de presentatie wil ik het idee kleinschalig na bootsen en de onderzoek proces laten zien.

7 Leerdoelen
(Welke leerdoelen heb je voor ogen met betrekking op je project)
Belangrijk voor mij is om achter mijn concept te staan en er compleet voor gaan. Niet onzeker zijn over mijn eigen meningen. Een andere punt is het onderzoek op een bepaalde manier te laten zien en wat er verwerkt is in het project zelf.

Inspiration - movies

woensdag 19 januari 2011
AMELIE




CHOCOLAT




LADY IN THE WATER




BEETLEJUICE




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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

The thing I found fascinating was the short animations that were guidelines of the galaxy. A fun and different perspective of the things we already know or thought we know.


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Inspiration - music video

Florence + The Machine - Cosmic Love