Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Critique 3 - Content Acquisition

Traditions are important because they provide continuity between generations. It can be difficult to keep up with extended family members these days, and of course it is impossible to touch those who are long gone. But traditions create a bridge between the young and the old, between the past and the present. Besides that, the value of a tradition is not in completing the ritual; the value comes from what it provides for those who participate. To judge the values of Chinese Puppeteering, it is considered of how many participants to watch the show rather than a completely and perfect performance but non-participants. To make this tradition more interesting and attract people to explore more is the objective of this project.

Information of Traditional Chinese Puppets such as
  • Historical
  • Types of Puppetry
  • Types of puppets
  • Stages
After finish view all the information, user can start their journey to test how much they do familiar with puppets. The game will be divided into 5 stages. Each stage having different kind of test game such as
  • Matching game
  • Shooting game
  • Pick me game
  • Connection
  • Build box

Monday, January 24, 2011

Critique 3 - Ideas for the Teaser Video






Critique 3 - Rough Sketch For The Poster

This poster design objective is with a modern touch and traditional twist.The flash game is full of missions and challenges that the audience have to confront and solve it in order to proceed to the next mission or next stage. "Journey to The West" is one of the most popular Chinese Puppeteering. I am inspired by the tales itself and the motivation of the journey to the West group. Modern touch in this game which mean the puppet game,while on the other hand the traditional twist meaning that the story of journey to the west. The missions inside will be renovated and it is all related to the Chinese Puppets such as historical, types of puppets, stages and etc.

Critique 2 Idea Development - Silversphere

A simple game to make the "bridge" to go over the blue vortex. Get the Silver Sphere in to the Blue Vortex before the time runs out.

Critique 2 Idea Development - Flash Game (Mission)

This is a mission game based that i found quite challenging and attract me.

Homepage with 3 options which is
  • Get Props
  • Start the Game
  • Keys Setting

This is the instruction page to let you know how to control the characters.

Once you finish reading the instructions, you may start now by selecting
  • Easy Mode
  • Medium Mode
  • Hard Mode
After that you will come to this page to select your character.

The game is start now and you must complete the mission by the time given at the top. At the same time, you have to beware your lives left.

Failure scene

Critique 2 Idea Development - Top 10 Historic Destinations

Since Mdm Forest said that user interact with the puppets doesn't convey any message to the audience. So, i have go through other media based to get more ideas.

This is one of the flash based media that I found out on the web. In the homepage, there is a map which showing 10 different destinations that located in US. This flash is just a information application to let user explore more on Historic Destinations.


There is a board at the bottom which showing 4 categories to let user know more about this destination. There are
  • Information
  • RV Tips
  • Photographs
  • Area Attractions
This design is same as other destinations too but only the background design is different.


Monday, December 20, 2010

Report

Whispering Pines 10

"performed in a multimedia environment of 3-channel video incorporating interactive "live animation" techniques, hacked objects, and original electronic music."

This is interesting and inspired me to work on my topic which is chines puppet show. With live animation, user can use hands or body movements to do tracking to make puppets lively with different actions. Hacked objects can be use as a metaphor when puppet is sad/angry and so on to play around the expression/emotions.