{"id":322,"date":"2015-04-21T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yojimbo.de\/wordpress\/?p=322"},"modified":"2018-05-02T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T05:02:32","slug":"ludum-dare-32-blind-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Ludum Dare 32: Blind Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there,<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend (17.-19. of April 2015) I made a small little interactive project. I still have trouble calling it a game, since I didn&#8217;t really mean to make one.<br \/>\nThe idea started out at a university gathering about Unity, where I had an idea about using particles to &#8220;paint&#8221; \/ interact with your surroundings. My inspiration for this came from the video of the project <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/44548289\">&#8220;Traces&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/jamesalliban\">James Alliban<\/a>. I noticed how the particles would sometimes bounce of the ground and I thought it would be interesting to create an experiment in which you are technically blind and can only discover the shape of your environment by bouncing particles of it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"DVaHSJL\" data-context=\"false\"><p><a href=\"\/\/imgur.com\/DVaHSJL\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Originally this was meant to work with the Kinect v2, but after finding out that the SDK would not work with Windows 7, I changed the idea to focus more heavily on exploration with traditional FPS controls. Painting the environment suddenly turned from a hassle to a lot of fun. (I spent a better part of the gamejam just painting the environments I had built).<br \/>\nAt the same time the fleeting impressions the particles generate for a short while, increase the feeling of strangeness and loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>After I had built the first prototype with a complete level I contacted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaylinnormanslack.com\/\">good friend<\/a> of mine to help me with some level design. He made a amazing tutorial level and even created a simple menu, while I was asleep in Germany and the day was passing in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Together we were able to create <a href=\"http:\/\/kunsternst.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/BlindSpot.7z\">BlindSpot<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/rebelmoogle\/particleye\">Sources<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>There is no real end yet, but I really like the possibilities of this idea and will try to keep working on it.<br \/>\nFor future levels I would concentrate more on interacting with the environment through the particles in different ways and telling a simple story \/ building a world through the objects you can find through exploration.<br \/>\nI would also like to try to test this on some 3D Glasses \/ VR Goggles, but will somehow need to get my hands on the hardware first. ;)<\/p>\n<p>I also want to employ 3D sound more to help with navigation.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there, Last weekend (17.-19. of April 2015) I made a small little interactive project. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43,44,41,42,25,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsternst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}