tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376134195631705262024-03-13T13:57:12.246-07:00KOUKJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11484840676472119263noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37613419563170526.post-82017245619655475212013-10-02T14:34:00.001-07:002013-10-02T14:34:57.189-07:00Making of!<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/75817816" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/75817816">MakingOf-short</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user19357687">jessica li wan po</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11484840676472119263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37613419563170526.post-30468511912737810402013-10-02T14:33:00.000-07:002013-10-02T14:35:28.247-07:00Gameplay - long<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/74927930" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/74927930">KOUK gameplay - long</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user19357687">jessica li wan po</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11484840676472119263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37613419563170526.post-43040392666903718342013-09-09T14:17:00.005-07:002013-09-09T14:34:33.892-07:00Unity environment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to create a traditional house made of corrugated iron for House 03. It was really difficult to find existing houses of this type, and I had to use mainly pictures from various books (<i>La vie en Varangue, </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"><i>Maisons traditionnelles de l'île Maurice, Ile Maurice aquarelles</i>) </span> to create the model</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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While House 01 was based mostly on one particular house in Port-Louis with some minor details from other sources, House 02 was created using a mix of features from various houses (shown below), two of them found in Quatre-Bornes.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm from Mauritius, a beautiful island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It's known mainly for being a tourist destination and the place where the extinct Dodo used to live. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a multicultural country with an array of cultures, wholly made up of migrant populations of different ethnicities. The adaptation and mixing of those different cultures over centuries have created a rich cultural heritage. One such heritage is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">traditional Mauritian architecture also known as colonial or Creole architecture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful traditional houses are unfortunately being destroyed at an alarming rate, and the ones that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">remain dotted around the island can often be found in dire conditions. The reality is that the high </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cost of maintenance and renovation makes it very tempting for people to demolish and make way </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for concrete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my MSc project, I wanted to create an artefact that would celebrate Mauritian traditional houses in a way that would appeal to children. At first, my idea was to create an interactive environment where the user would walk around a traditional house and click on hotspots that would reveal interesting facts about features of the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked for feedback from various people about the basic idea (you know who you are!). What was flagged up was that there was a lack of goal/incentive to explore the environment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, the idea evolved so that the user would be looking for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">characters hiding in the environment</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. It would not involve only one house, but several houses in a wider environment and the exploration would be more implicit. The player would be given hints related to a feature of the house, close to where the character is hiding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KOUK (as in kouk-kassiet) means hide-and-seek in Mauritian Creole. I must say that while I was trying to find traditional houses in Mauritius to research on, I had the feeling they were playing kouk with me...</span><br />
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11484840676472119263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37613419563170526.post-52346261483354583852013-07-18T07:59:00.000-07:002013-07-18T08:31:34.176-07:00Introducing KOUK!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">A few versions polished off in Illustrator:</span></div>
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