Idea:
My project will be a first-person POV diary storytelling simulator-ish. I want to select a theme around which the stories in the diary will revolve. I first thought about WW2 diaries, but I found it difficult to find excerpts from those diaries on the internet. I thought about using fictional diaries, but I will keep this as a choice to consider if I fail to find sufficient diary excerpts for my game. I will also consider themes other than WW2 as I develop my project as I think the theme will not affect the technical part too much.
Materials Needed:
My project’s visual element will run completely on Processing, so I don’t anticipate needing special material for that part. For the interactive part of my project, I would like to have switches/controllers that work similarly to the arduino kit’s potentiometer and digital switches, but are larger and don’t need to be connected directly to the breadboard. For the potentiometer style controller, I’m thinking of a controller with the shape of the sketch below.
The red material will be an insulator. The blue material will be a conductor. To interact with the controller, the player will change the angle of the external insulator part. Each blue pin attached to the insulator will be associated with an angle degree that will be communicated to processing to manipulate the game parameters. For the digital switch type controller, I think I will a box with a squishy material that separate the button from the bottom of the box. On the bottom of the box, there will be a pressure sensor. The player will push the button and the sensor will then communicate numerical values to Processing which will be used to manipulate the parameters of the game.
Difficult Parts:
I think the visual part of the project will be difficult. At first, I thought of changing the speed of writing or change the text being written depending on how the player interacts with the game, but now, I think I will keep the text and speed constant and add different elements into the game such as audio files of the text being read. Additionally, since the game visual is meant to be in a first person POV, I think adding some type of motion to that affects all objects in the game would be more engaging. This would simulate head movements or such. I think it would be strange to have the environment completely still in a first-person POV.