Research Document 3

Project Name: Tipple (May Change- Probably will change) Abstract: The game I plan on making will be centred around pouring tea. The aim will be for the player to endlessly fill as many cups as possible without being able to see the water level inside the cups rising. Over or underfilling the cups will cause…

Research Document 2

Project Name: Tipple Abstract: My project so far has led my research through the Underwater World, initially beginning with specifically underwater cities, this included the lost city of Atlantis and Cleopatra’s lost palace where she committed suicide rather than fall prey to the roman invaders. However, as I continued my research I found myself expending…

My Little Prototype

This is a screen capture of the prototype of the game I am trying to make. It works on a time basis, a mug of the size of the one in the video would take around 3 seconds to fill. In order to fill the mug perfectly you need to poor for within a second…

How I build Mugs in Maya

View Time lapse of Mug Builds here: My ability in Maya is practically nil! I followed a Youtube tutorial to build a basic mug shape then when I felt I had more of a clue what I was doing I modified the process to create mugs of all different shapes and sizes.   I found…

Mugs Galore

Range of mugs in different shapes and sizes. I plan to make this game in 3D, however I am very inexperienced in 3D modelling, I think having a large collection of 2D shapes to take reference from will help me to get the models put together. I found the majority of the mugs shapes using…

Game Idea 3- Tea

This game is based off of the idea that some people who suffer from akinetopsia are unable to pour cups of tea because they can’t see the water level rising. Small app game, iOS Android Aim is to: Fill as many receptacles as possible to a fill line. Overfilling 3 times will cause game over!…

Game Ideas- Akinetopsia

1- Cannot perceive movement Must navigate through an environment whilst dodging moving obstacles the obstacles will move around the screen but you wont be able to follow them or see that direction they’re moving in order to dodge. 2- Whilst the player in moving they are unable to see the environment around them. Vision only…

Akinetopsia

Sufferers cannot perceive motion in their visual field but they can see stationary objects perfectly. Varying degrees from seeing motion as a cinema reel to an inability to see any motion at all. Inconspicuous Akinetopsia Described as seeing motion as a cinema or a multiple exposure photograph Most common kind of akinetopsia Often occurs with…

Simultagnosia

Rare Neurological Disorder Described as the inability to perceive more than a single object at a time Coined by Wolpert in 1924, sufferers could see individual details of a scene but cannot grasp the overall image. Dorsal Simultagnosia Caused by Bilateral lesions in the junctions between the parietal and occipital lobes in the brain. Perception…

Points of View

This mindmap shows different types of visual difficulty. Some are real life neurological disorders whereas others are nearly impossible for humans to have (only having rear vision, inability to turn in a certain direction). The most interesting topics I found from this mindmap are the neurological disorders such as Simultagnosia and Akinetopsia, where sight is…