Digital Spaces

A class at ITP with Aaron Meyers and Tabor Robak. Syllabus Demos

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TechMadnezz Prototype 1 -- enemies were extracted for a rendering purposes....something went wrong with the script.  Better render coming soon.

Please download a HTML webplayer version prototype at this address: 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByPKUc6IUKX8VnFicEN4cjI3RDA&usp=sharing

more integrated version is  coming. 

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Matt London Final - MAMBO

Enjoy!

http://itp.nyu.edu/~mll331/ds/Mambo_Final.html

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Here’s a beta release of Tourbillion. At this point, there are three stages with different mechanics. Complete? No. Ready for testing? Yes! Give it a shot.

Play on the web (Less pretty) Download for Mac and Windows (Way prettier)

Music and sound effects are by the amazing Ben Carignan.

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floor plan

Controls

The main character is a cat, with a 3rd person controller.  The player can move back and forth, left and right and look around.  Pressing spacebar makes the cat jump.  The cat can also climb up and down on certain surfaces.  Pressing another button make the cat paw something with his front paw.  This is used to interact with different objects, move things and knock things over.

Walk through

Act 1

1. Beginning

Game begins with character (3rd person cat) in a cage, looking out at into a laboratory.  At the far end of the lab is a door, with a flickering green light in the window.  Its the main point of interest in the scene, possibly the only thing that has color/animation.  

2. The cage

The cat explores the cage.  At first he cannot get out.  There is a litter box in the corner of the cage filled with little poops.  There is also a small gap in the top of the cage.  The cat can paw the poops over to a corner and climb on them to get out of the cage.

3. Countertop 1

The cat’s cage is on a countertop.  There are a few objects on this countertop, some wires, tools, a beaker of liquid, a newspaper and charts of cat vision and cat movement.  There are a bunch of shelves with books and binders above the counter.  The cat can explore the objects and paw them and push them off the counter.  The cat needs to paw the newspaper over the edge of the counter to make a bridge to the next counter.

4. Countertop 2

At the south end of the room there is another countertop.  There is another cage with a cat inside.  Above the counter there is a big thing that looks like a microwave.  The other cat has some gross electrodes and stuff in his brain and is kind of twitching and crazy.  The door has an electronic lock on it.  The cat can push a button and open the cage, but if he does the crazy cat with jump out and eat him.  Game over.

You can restart.  The cat passes the crazy cat cage.  There’s a control box next to the cage.  If the cat paws different controls, the crazy cat gets zapped or does different things.  Next to the counter is an exit door with one of this long bars that you push to open.  If the cat jumps onto the bar, it will depress and then snap back into place, flinging the cat up on top of the exit sign.  From there, the cat can jump onto the top of the microwave, then walk across and jump onto the bookshelves, and then walk across and jump to countertop 3.  

There is also one of those hanging power strips that the cat can swing on to get to the center table.

One of the buttons on the control panel will also open the crazy cat cage.  The cat can open the cage and then jump onto the door and escape.  The cat will then start to destroy everything in the lab.  

5. Countertop 3

On the third countertop there are some more instruments, one of which is a mirror.  When the cat looks in the mirror it sees that it also had gross electronics sticking out of its brain.  It needs to see this in order to move to Act 2.

There is also a fire alarm next to the counter.  The cat can set off the fire alarm.  If the scientist is still in the other room, he will run out, leaving the door to room 2 open.  The cat can then jump down to the floor and run into room 2.

If the cat waits too long to do this, the scientist will abruptly leave the second room and go through the exit in the first room.  If this happens, using the fire alarm will not help the cat get into room 2.

6. Floor

At any time, the cat can jump onto the floor and explore.  The only way to get back up to the counters is by crawling up the edge of the drawers on the front.  

7. Lab table

There’s a metal table in the middle of the lab with a sink.  Something will probably happen with the sink.

Act 2

1. Entering the second room

Once the cat had managed to open the door, either by alerting the fire alarm or TK OTHER METHODS he finds another room with a huge evil MRI like machine with a tiny kitten in the middle.  The kitten is getting zapped with green radiation stuff.  The cat has to paw the controls of the evil looking MRI machine to open the door and the kitten comes out on a little moving platform.  If the cat doesn’t make it in time, the kitten will have died and the game starts over.  If he makes it in time he can put the kitten on his back and try to leave room 2.  

If the crazy cat is still running around, it will eat the kitten.  The cat needs to open the exit door too.  If I have more time it would also be cool to make a fire escape as a second exit.  Need to think more about the ending....

Assets

Cat character

- Drawings: different states for actions

- 5 - 10 standing in place

- 5 - 10 walking cycle

~2 - looking left

~2 - looking right

~4 - pawing things

~2 - climbing up

~2 - climbing down

~2 - climbing sidways

- 5 - 10 jumping

Crazy cat character

- drawings

- 5 - 10 - freaking out in the cage

- 5 - 10 - attacking cat

- 5 - 10 - eating kitten

- 5 - 10 - running around lab room

Kitten character

-drawings s

~3 - alive in mri machine

~3 - dead in mri machine

~3 - being carried by cat

~5 - being eaten by crazy cat

Scientist character

- drawings

~5 standing over machine

~10 walking cycle for leaving

~10 running cycle for fire alarm

First laboratory room

- Cage

- litter box with 1 texture

- 10 - 20 poops with different textures

- 4 walls with cage texture

- 1 ceiling with cage texture and gap

- 3 countertops

- marble/metal textures

- cabinet, bottom textures

- Countertop 1

- newspaper and texture

- tools and textures

- Countertop 2

- control panel and textures

- Countertop 3

- mirror and texture

- fire alarm and textures

- Metal lab table

- sink prefab

- metal texture

- Door to room 2

- transparent window texture

- handle knob to open

- Hanging electrical outlet

- fabric(?) prefab

- electrical box

- Exit door

- door texture

- opening bar and texture

- Microwave thing

- textures and architecture

- Bookshelves

- textures

- books and binders with textures

- Overhead, flouresent lights

- light textures

- Evil MRI machine

- machine bed and texture

- control panel and texture

- Maybe fire escape

- stairs, railing and bars textures

Sounds

- Cat

- 10 walking cycle paws

- 5 pawing things sounds

- 3 purrs

- 3 cry/scream, when hurt or runs into something

- Crazy cat

- making crazy sounds and stuff

- Scientist

- walk/run cycle

- First laboratory room

- flickering light sound

- sink water sound

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- Second room

- MRI ambient sound

- background music?

Scripting functionality

Evirorment

- light flickering

Sounds

- basic walking cycle, pawing things

- purring at random intervals

- crying when running into stuff

- keeping track of what items have been used or activated

Schedule

4/10 - basic play through with rooms and scene architecture

main character drawings and walking functionality

- basic room architectures

- ambient sounds

4/17 - crazy cat character

details of room 1

4/24 - scientist and kitten character

room 2 details

5/1 - walking and other sounds

playthrough

5/8 - final

Inspiration

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*Still rough :{

 There are cat and one roll of yarn on the bed. Cat drops the roll playing with that. That yarn goes to the mysterious hole of the room, and cat jumps into the hole, starts to follow that. Camera becomes cat's eyes at this point, it will keep FPS position till the end of the game.

 Then, cat falls through weird spaces (for now, 5 spaces, kitchen, moon, paper world, pac-man, and then bed again) Each of space reflects characteristics of spaces. Users should do tiny thing not to make cat to collapse to ground, for example, it would be physical thing in the kitchen, and it would be playing litte arcade in pac-man world. If cat get hang out of passing through all holes, it will reach to the bed (starting point) again. 

Music will play an important role to deepen the experience of the space. It's gonna be basic beat, but varies depending on the space. I won't depend much on script to tweak the music, script is still necessary to smoothly change the music though. 

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ALPHA BETA: girls just gotta shop!

ALPHA BETA: girls just gotta shop!

Level 1: You begin outside the supermarket but are only able to walk forward into the market. Once you enter the market, a list appears in front of you and is then minimized to the bottom left of the screen. You are able to explore the area freely. If you encounter the butcher or baker, you may click on them to trigger an animation in which they speak to you, closeup (with a camera switch). If you walk by other shoppers, they will be constantly saying the same thing.

Each level is exactly the same however the textures on the items and the sounds in the space will become more and more abstract.

On the first level, there will be a timer. If you do not finish getting all of the items on the list before time’s up, you respawn in the same place.

Once you’ve collected all items within the time frame, you proceed to checkout. When you enter the checkout line, the camera switches to the cashier, who then announces how much you owe. Text, or a voiceover, lets you know if you’ve successfully completed the level. If so, you respawn in the same

position in front of the store, however everything has changed.

  Your list will remain the same, but the actual names of the objects will have changed (ie, "broccoli" becomes "tiny tree").

  Bonus Level: People are replaced with hot babes from the asset store, cart is replaced with a PISTOL.

List of Assets:

Misc Assets

Shopping Cart

Shopping List

People in the market (Baker, Butcher, ~2 shoppers, Cashier, Manager)

Exterior of supermarket

Sliding doors

Columns

Sign

Exterior walls

Windows

Parking Lot

Skybox

Interior of supermarket (structure)

6 fruit bins

4 aisles

3 shelves per aisle

2 counters with glass exterior

2 wall shelves

1 cheese island

3 checkout counters

3 conveyor belts

3 computer screens

8 aisle signs

Toilet

Sink

Toilet Paper

Assets

Cans (like of beans)

Soda Cans

Cereal boxes

Wine Bottles

Juice boxes

Packaged pasta

Berries in a box

spray cleaner

Meat

Bacon bag

Yogurt

Jars

Eggs

Milk carton

Bread bag

Bananas

Broccoli

Production Schedule

April 5: Level floor plan completed

April 10: 3-d models created, some scripting completed

April 17:  Assets completed and placed in environment

April 24: Animations and scripting finalized

May 1: Sound design, procure cart

May 8: Cart Controller created

Scripting Functionalities

Triggers (opening doors, triggering other characters' audio & camera switches)

Picking up objects with keypress (you click on the object and it appears in your cart)

A script which counts the objects after check-out

Script to maximize list when clicked on

  Layout:

Initial ViewAfter Entry: 

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Walkthrough and Process Document

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black venice : design document

black venice_ walk through :

OPENING

Black: Voiceover news narration about incoming Hurricane Sandy preparedness for Manhattanites. Fade out of black.

The scene opens with your FPS on primary source point, which is your stoop. You have a view of the Con Ed plant, you see the streetview in a sunny sky, and there is a voice over of an internal checklist:

“OK I got to get my latte and pick up my laundry before I get ready to go to the Apple store to fix my iPhone. Ugh this is the 3rd time I’ve  had to bring it to those geniuses. And before the storm comes in, it’s important.”

You get a sense of space as there are captions that direct you to the dry cleaners, which is a left turn off the stoop, and a block down across the Con Ed Plant. The dry cleaner and coffee shop are next to each other, and are illuminated, it doesn’t matter which one you enter as long as you go to both.

The caption alerts you to return home because you should hurry.

FADE TO BLACK

You go inside and into your apartment- simple couch and desk, four white walls, a poster, a computer, and a large view of the scene outside.

Voice narration: “I don’t have enough time to get across town before the storm hits. Frustrating, but it’ll be fine. Whatever, that last storm was bullshit. This is NYC!”

The sceneview closens to the window and turns into a set frame of the outside storm. The sky darkens, bands of rain come in, wind howls, lightning flashes, three dramatic explosions emanate from the factory floor. The entire world darkens.

During this animation, there is a voiceover, increasingly distorted, mentioning the incoming storm surge, Alphabet City underwater, no power anywhere south of 34th Street.

FADE TO BLACK

The FPS returns

to the same stoop, but the world is different. DARK. the water is directly meeting the stoop, a step away.. A boat floats from the river (right) to the stoop and stops. You know to jump in it.

Caption reads: things have changed. Life is new. What once was known, now is uncertain. What once was fragile, now lies fragmented. It is not about leaving, it is about seeing. Rediscover your home, and take stock of what it means to live in black venice.

Go to your dry cleaners, and discover what wares await you. Engage with your vicinity.

Your boat uses the same FPS behaviours. There is a faint light beam being directed from your boat onto the straightaway, slightly illuminating the foreground. You hear the silence, but also gusts of activities such as fighting, glasses clinking, and water movement.

You return to the same storefront, but there is an electric sign blinking with the Empire County Survival Foundry logo over the dry cleaners sign. You go in. It is abandoned and disheveled. You see pickable items, (a spear, a life preserver, a car battery, a wifi antenna/fishing spear) and when you stand over them they are acquired with a noted sound effect. You return to your boat and enjoy exploring three square blocks of flooded black Alphabet City before the sequence fades to black with the title credit.

FADE TO BLACK

Notes:

  As to the aforementioned areas expressed in the aerial plan as well as the design document, all extremetied bounds will be communicated by a fog cloud and an inability to penetrate past a few feet of completely obscured whiteout impaired vision. There will be a skyline in the distance that is lit up from the street view, but that will not be accessible or within a close range, completely shut off.

Alphabet City streets: four building facades that can be nurbnormed, inversed, scaled, in order to bring diversity to the street. Asphalt for street, concrete for sidewalks, brick pattern, trees, grass. City noises from street recordings, Voice recording, and script.

Apartment Interior: simple wall frame of cityscape from higher vantage point, of ConEd Plant.

Storm: sound effects, animation of explosion with physics particles generator, rain animation, ?floodwaters encroaching over street? (if possible), blackout

Storefront: neon light that flickers, interior, fake wood panelling, debris objects, 3d models of gear (four pieces)

uncertain needed 3d models beyond surfacing simple polygon shapes for all buldings, including power plant, some stock deserted urban cityskyline models, etc.

basic overall space in simple shapes by April 5th

surfaces of shapes all collected, skybox, animation underway of power plant, by April 10th

sequencing and organization on week of 17th

storefront interior and scripting of picking up on 24th

water treatment and after flood environment on 1st

finalization on 8th

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Doc

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MLondon_RoughMap

For the love of all that is holy, Don't Push It!

RoughMap

Design Doc

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My ever changing design document for the development of TechMadnezz in Unity can be here. All in all, I have a firm concept of how the actual game play will work. I’m still slightly fuzzy on some the details, but it was really helpful for me to actually begin plotting this out. 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByPKUc6IUKX8RnlMX2oxYk5rRjg/edit?usp=sharing

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Here is a revised project proposal for my new final, Tourbillion.

Here is the design document and schedule as well as a gameplay pre-alpha.

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Final Project Idea

Storyboard 

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PINBALL FOUNDATION DEMO TRY HERE (Left Flipper: Left Arrow Key, Right Flipper = Right Arrow Key, Launch Ball = Down Arrow Key) DESIGN DOC : ZERO GRAVITY PINBALL Digitizing Orbitor 1 EXPERIENTIAL WALKTHROUGH Game opens with simple splash/animation page, introducing concept. Game objective is to be a spacecraft’s (the ball) directional safe guard. X ship is traveling through several different galaxies and must reach its final destination. The user’s job is the help the spacecraft move around space (by directing it using the flippers), collecting items (points), avoiding the gravitational pull of surrounding planets and ultimately reaching a high enough point level to travel to the next galaxy. There are three galaxies to travel through (levels 1-3) and a final “secret” galaxy (bonus round) that can be accessed through a trap door in the playfield. SCENES Intro/Splash Animation Level 1 - Simple two planet layout Level 2 - Three planet layout, increased drop-off space Level 3 - Four planet layout, super charged gravity (faster moving ball) Bonus Round (Level 4) - Colour-shifted “alt universe” version of Level 3 with three pinballs End/Win Animation End/Game Over Animation (Levels one through four must have enough three dimensional qualities to enable a visually appealing 3D first-person ball mode, much of the 3D qualities will be unperceivable during 2D mode) ASSETS 1) Models Terrain (three similar but different terrain layouts) Flippers Ball Spring (deploy button) Ball (asteroid) Planet (bumpy sphere) Items (simple, small objects for collection) 2) Textures Terrain (three similar but different illustrative space textures) Ball Texture (asteroid) Machine part texture (shiny and simple for flippers, spring and scoreboard) Planet Textures (five different textures) Item Textures 3) Sounds Ambient Space Point Bonus Point Bounce Flipper Hit Intro Music Win Music Game Over Music 4) Typography Scoreboard Intro Animation End Animations (Visual differentiation between levels will be achieved via slight adjustments to the level 1 assets; particularly colour, texture, size, terrain size, gravity strength and number of balls). SCRIPTS Bounce Orbit/Gravity Paddle Control Pull Spring Camera Change (2D/3D modes) Keep/Display Score Game Over CONTROLS No FPS User controls flippers and subtle camera tilt (camera tilt becomes more extreme during 3D first-person ball mode) SCHEDULE March 27th to April 3th Aims: foundational functionality development Deliverables: Design Document, simple functionality pinball machine in Unity April 3th to April 10th Aims: functionality development, scripting Deliverables: A multi-level barebones version of the game with functioning anti-gravity, score system and game-over. April 10th to April 17th Aims: asset development and preparation Deliverables: All required assets should be found, prepared and ready for insertion April 17th to April 24th Aims: asset editing and insertion, intro/outro animations Deliverables: Game should be in the rough draft mode by April 24th, all assets should be placed April 24th to May 1st Aims: troubleshooting, exploring additional platform export (iOS, etc.) Deliverables: Second game draft May 1st to May 8th Aims: troubleshooting and export prep Deliverables: Completed game on (at least) web platform.

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Here's the pdf.

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View Presentation Here: 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vNrl99dW7YEZ_mPqm9h-ApTUQoBCFfHU9yOoarz-OSQ/edit?usp=sharing