This project has three parts: short melody from the ‘Nyan Cat’, playing with photocell and LEDs and picture with pointillism on Processing.

This is the whole Arduino piece that was used for this project. As you can see there is a Piezo speaker attached where the melody of the ‘Nyan Cat’ plays through as soon as the Arduino is turned on:

music – nyan cat

After the music stops playing, the LEDS light are turned on. A person can play with the LEDs using the photocell creating something like a rainbow:

LED & photocell – video

Also on Processing, there is a still image of a tree (a photograph that I took). When the button on the breadboard is pressed, the image of the tree start to pixelate and transform into a image with pointillism. The more you keep the button pressed the more dots appear on the screen and pixelate the image. Otherwise it returns back to it’s orignal state.

Compressed files: final CC (all the sources that I have used are in the arduino file)

This is a little adventure game called ‘Daja’s Adventure’ where the player has to help Daja, the fictional character, to find a powerful gem inside a volcano. There are three scenes where the player solves three different problems. For example:

• In the first scene, the player has to help Daja to move the bricks that are blocking the entrance to the volcano and find a small button to go to the next scene.

  (Scene 1 – Forest)

• Or in the third scene where Daja has to unlock the chest that is full of gems and has to find the most powerful ‘lively’ gem in order to complete her adventure.

  (Scene 3 – Chest of Gems)

These types of mini-puzzles are usually in various mystery games. As big gamer, I have tried to use few simple examples from other games and place them onto my small interactive narrative. This little game is more likely to be played by children from ages 4-9, as it is short and simple.

I have drawn digitally on Adobe Photoshop on tablet for most of the scenes. I have also used several stock photos from the Internet and modified them to match the theme of the story.

Overall, I find this interactive narrative moderate. I had expected that I would be able to place more interaction. However, I had encountered several technical problems therefore I had to keep it simpler than I wanted to.

Project: midterm_collapsed

Video: game_preview

interactive narrative

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