So in light of the comments made from my last presentation I decided that it would be a lot more interesting if I based my project on a 'true story'. The reason for this is because my main aim is to entice a user into the experience and immerse them in a real, scary atmosphere. A really useful way of doing this is using an experience that actually happened in order to enhance the realism of the experience. In contrast to this however, I have also diverged from creating a somewhat 'educational' interactive experience to now wanting to create an entertainment piece. There are many reasons for this. One is that it gives me the chance to come up with an interesting story (which I can 'base' on a true story) and this is something I really enjoy doing. From my previous 3D projects I have written stories around my environments. The other annoying trait I have - if it was creating an educational piece - is that I get quite obsessive. I would obsess that everything was correct and accurate which would cause huge delay and aggravation whilst creating my environment. At least taking the entertainment route allows my imagination to take it's course. Again, it has always been in my nature to create an entertainment piece but at the beginning of this project, I did think about doing something educational.
So in light of this I have decided to try and find some true story behind my rough idea - Hotel that used to be an Mental Asylum. Once I find a hotel that has this kind of history I can dig deeper and find a story that I can adapt and make my own. If there is not a story I can find I can at least just use the idea of the 'Mental Asylum that is now a Hotel' and make something up in relation to that. However through rough searching I have found a few actual hotels that used to be mental asylums. At this point I am not sure on their history but at least I have something to work on now.
My task for today is too find this Hotel/Asylum and carry out research on it and some others. Tomorrow I will begin some Maya stuff as this was something I badly needed to start. By the end of the week I also aim to finish the current book I am (still) reading; 'What Video Games Have To Teach About Learning And Literacy'.
These are just a few simple tasks I aim to carry out over the next few days. From this week on I have started to map out my week ahead in in order for maximum work efficiency and in order to help give myself some free time.
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