Final Project- Preliminary Concept Blogpost – Introduction to Interactive Media

Concept

One of my favorite shows of these two last years has been Arcane. The animation, the character designs, the music, and the story are all beautiful elements combined into a masterpiece. For this reason, for my final project I want to create a reflection of my emotions towards these series. My audience is intended for those who are fans of the series, but also those who have not watched it yet, and encourage them to do so. Moreover, I also intend to enhance a user experience in which the participant can absorb the parallel between music and visuals, demonstrating the power of these two elements when they are combined in an interactive medium.

How does the project work

My intentions are to make this project prioritize the experience of the concept while incorporating subtle interactive responses. On the first page, there will be a brief instruction of how the experience works. In simple terms, there will be an animated object floating in the screen once the user clicks one of the keys in the computer. This floating object, inspired by the “Wild Rune” introduced in Season 2 of Arcane, is a colorful sphere floating in a dark space. In the series, this is an unstable, magical object that is constantly distorting and causing chaos around it. For this reason, in my project, this sphere will be open to drastic changes: From changes in size (growing and shrinking).

For the interaction, I aim to make a series of buttons (three maximum), as part of the Arduino tactile “speaking”. One of the buttons would be to play the music (if this doesn’t work, I would make it the start button instead), to grow the sphere I would make a second button, and to make it there would be a third button.

If there is music, this one would play on its own and reset when it is done playing.

Background Song: (still in progress of decision)

To Ashes and Blood – Arcane, Woodkid

Questions to ask:

How can I make the buttons affect the size of the object?
Can I use the songs or not (because of copyright)
Will there be an end of game or not? If there is, how can I do it?
- - (For this scenario, I would probably follow the storyline where it is necessary to stabilize the wild rune, so if the user makes the sphere too big or too small it would be game over).

Fullscreen Mode Sketch

Link to sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/imh9299/full/lv73qdahm

Main Inspiration: Arcane Season 2 Clip

https://youtu.be/8PU2iKx0YtQ?si=qtSexmSyrLLJLWcc