23/01/2024

Narration Test with Twine

Tried to found a way of having a linear story but changed by player's perception (having to write their impression about what happened).

After this, I had my jury. It wasn't good, but also not catastrophic. They told me that I got a lot of prototypes but what was my point behind that? I was lacking of narration, but they saw in my different pieces that I tried a way to create "a way of doing participatory culture". So they pushed me into the way of creating a tool.

20/12/2023

This week was focused on the aesthetic shape of the project (object, video game etc).

When I was wondering about colors, mixing them or not, how to combine them, I thought about LGBTQIA+ community. There is a potential of talking about these with the color system. I thought about one or few stories of coming out.

I started to work on characters. Im still not sure about how I want them to be, however I used some anthropomorphic animals to avoid total totally human shapes. Why? Because I also try to avoid binarity between male/female characters. Also male is considered as neutrality (ex: Pink is considered as a very girly color meanwhile blue even if its considered as a boyish color is more seen as a neutral color).

Also, when I was working on shapes, I played with my triangles paper and thought that I can display them on an octogone with 6 colors of rainbow. I thought about having 6 stories or 6 chapters displayed on these colors but someone remind me that its similar to the Simon game.

Then, I tried to find an other shape. Finally I chose easily to stay on an idea of pyramid because it could resonate with the idea of prism in terms of lights but also in terms of LGBTQIA+ community (in the notion of spectrum).

14/12/2023

14/12/2023

Today was Test Day! Two groups tested my paper prototype and gave me feedbacks.

Morning group:

Too much elements at the same level, do a better hierarchy of these

They didn't understand they had to communicate

Didn't know when they should continue or not.

I made adjustements at lunch and the afternoon group had a better feedback. I give them more informations and I cleaned the space to make it more clear.

Afternoon group:

They think I should put the white light more in evidence when they find the right combination

More interactions when they discover something, put more interest and "rewards" of making the effort to do it.

Does it have consequences to be in black or in light? (ex: black = character fear the dark)

What I thought I should adapt in futur:

If game is silence or with not a lot of texts to relate the story, the introdution should be perfect to give them enough informations to be more autonomous

More feedbacks between players instead of just texts but without split screen(what is the other doing? How to know without speak?) -> give a goal of being together maybe?

13/12/2023

A lot of things have changed since 12 december 2023. I'm not anymore focused on the gestures but on the idea of colors but I'm keeping some aspects of the puppet shadow.

I'm inspired by Prince and Princess Michel Ocelot with these colored backgrounds and black foreground.

07/12/2023

Storyboard of the 3 main sequences of interactions through the idea of the game.

Moving forward.

Changing scene.

• What you are exploring (or your question).

Trying to find a way for peoples to have an important, collaborative, and personnal approach in a game through puppet shadows.

• How you are going to do it (methods)

Creating a panel of prototypes papers on the wall and let people try to play and observe their gestures.

• What are you going to create for TEST DAY? What are you testing?

Create prototypes of levels of the games through papers features and a projector. Trying various forms of needs through shadows to see what kind of disposition in the game could create various forms of interactions.

• What are the tools, materials, hardware, software etc that you need?

Papers, scotch, wall and a projector (prototype)

• What are the next steps/experiments

06/12/2023

Puppet Shadow Game Path Test 3