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Extract from my second Draft Literature Review  “ The theory presented in this chapter (Chapter 5) contributes to my own practice as it demands that I evaluate how I engage the players suspension of disbelief in my own videogame design. I am challenged to reconsider how the player adopts a ‘lusory attitude’ and the ‘game playing role’ through a willed disavowel of presence, in their acceptance of the 4th wall. I am prompted to reconsider how the player interacts with the diegesis and how I might bend or expand my 4th wall for narrative or game play affect. For example, I could design the ‘wheel of fortune’ interaction in such a way that it reinforces a sense of disorientation in the player. This draws attention to the wall between the player and the diegesis because the wheel is not only a game within the game, it is also the game environment in which the game is located. This means that when the player spins the wheel, the game environment will spin, presented to the player a...

I am working on a context image which will illustrate a scene in which the Wheels app might be used. I have also placed wheels fairground model in its own context as a miniature scene... just to see how it might look when completed.

I have built a white box set in Unity with the intention of modelling the assets such as the tents, characters etc, in Maya and importing them in. A key interaction is the choosing of the card which will give the player as special skill. To do this I needed to create a Wheel of Fortune which will spin and allow the player to stop the rotation and choose a card. At the moment, I have set up the wheel as the actual game set with a flapper which will interact with it. I intended to : Make the wheel spin. Make the wheel slow down   Create a Stop Button Create a close up of the card. I thought an easy way of checking the interaction would be to model the set and interaction in Unity.  I have set up hierarchies and grouped the cards, wheel and tents together to make a wheel of fortune with the flapper and post as its own group and a camera set to look down on the wheel/fairground.    However, after watching this video, ...

Working through the Unity fundamentals videos I am finding that my basic 3Ds Max knowledge is kicking in. Today I have constructed a white box model of the set so that I can begin to try out some interactive elements. The model includes the card wheel, a wheel flapper (if thats the right term), several small tents and a large Top Tent. The primitive box models are very limited in Unity and so these must be modelled in Maya. Entrance Entrance and Arena Flapper   (Think Wheel of Fortune with the sound of a card jammed in the spokes of your bike)      Flapper at the Entrance  Next I am finishing the colour theory experiments and designing a working colour palette as I try out various different physical materials so that I can decide how I would like the overall project to look and feel. I am adding the next steps to the project management boards (Trello).  For the Visual look and feel of the game... Co...