231 First Experiment

My first experiment was to see if I could incur a routine in a person watching a film.

I made Kenji watch a heavily action oriented scene from Flags of our Fathers by Clint Eastwood. This scene has a strong immersion associated with it. I paused the film every five seconds and he would then have to resume the film by unpausing it using the space bar. My motive was to see if he would recognize the pattern and naturally switch his attitude towards the film to accompany this constant change.

(download)
Kenji originally started to watch the film upright with his hands holding his head up. Over time as he quickly realised the film would be stopped every few seconds he moved his hand to be at the spacebar, allowing him to restart the film straight away to get a continuous flow.

Some keywords associated with his responce were as follows: annoying - frustrating - immersion was broken - repetitive - predictable - as soon as stopped tried to start again - just wanted to watch the movie. He quickly noticed the pattern and switch his stance and mind state to accompany this pattern. He was actively ready for the film to stop and was waiting in between to make sure he could quickly start it again.

 

231 Ideas for experiments

Here are my three experiment ideas for creating moods whilst watching horror films

 

1 - Change the environment the person is in. (Dark - Light, Inside to Outside, Daytime to Nighttime)

2 - Experiencing watching movies with and without friends.

3 - Continously having to start the film when it is paused every 5 seconds.

243 Game Plan

So today I whipped up a quick rough plan for what each of us is to be assigned:

Locky-

Overall supervisor/designer/leader

Intro animation/image sequence for story
Menu design and illustrations
Planet design and illustrations
Game mechanic designer

Jimmy

Spaceship design and illustrations and animations
Space backgrounds and illustration
Asteroid and power up design and illustrations
Music
Sound effects

Zachary

Any and all programming
Prototype creator. 

Everyone seems to be excited and motivated about the project and happy with their roles thus far.