Cave Archeological Virtual Excursions

At least one concept image

C.A.V.E. was inspired upon Nightmare Before Christmas ‘hub” and airport terminals.

A brief description of your project

• What you are attempting to accomplish?

We are attempting to make an interactive puzzle game with multiple environments all following a cohesive story/setting. Must be interesting and fun.

Description of the user’s experience

• Does the user have a goal?

The user will be tasked with solving basic puzzles and traversing through interesting locales.

• How will the user interact with the system?

The user will interact using the standard cave wand and potentially voice recognition using the Kinect.

• What happens if the user doesn’t do what they are supposed to?

An indicator will be displayed on their hud giving them a clue as to what to do. Depending on how hard an objective can be, we can tweak this such that it is either more/less obvious.

Equipment

• What software and hardware do you plan to use

        The Cave >.> Possibly the Kinect. Sketchup, Revit and 3DS Max

Weekly Timeline

• Either use a Gantt chart or describe desired outcomes on a weekly basis

  • April 9: Have a cohesive theme and general direction for the game. Start creating puzzle design charts and specific level requirements/directions. Start working on terminal.

  • April 16: Have puzzle design charts finished and specific level requirements/directions finished. Start modeling levels. Start programming a HUD && item interactivity. Look at Kinect Voice Recognition. If (easy){startKinectProgramming()}else{nope.avi}

  • April 23: Levels are (or are nearly) finished. Have programming of HUD (say “give me a hint” and text is displayed) finished. Item interactivity almost finished, depending on how fast it takes to implement all of the levels.

  • April 30: The experience is finished, just adding the finishing touches/bug fixes.

  • May 7: Hopefully finished with a working game that doesn’t crash. (probably won’t happen)

• What contingency plans do you have?

    Make a shoebox diorama and have people use their imaginations.

• What is the bare minimum you would consider a success?

        A fun and interesting environment that people can walk through and enjoy.

Places:

• Hub
  

• Petra/Angkor Wat

• Taizhou

• Egypt – Pyramid
  

Puzzles:

• Petra

  • Scroll deciphering

  • Open Sesame to open big tomb door

  • ???

  • Profit

  • Genie Lamp

• Egypt

  • Choose the right canopic jars and place them in order on a pedestal.

  • Tomb is revealed

  • Open sarcophagus with ultrahuman strength?

• Taizhou

  • Hidden object in a painting, object hidden behind the painting

  • PAINTING PUZZLES!!!!11!!1!!!!!