APD week8: Play and Audience

Theme: Play and Audience

Context: Garden friends made by Eran Hilleli and Nicole He. Could be find at: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/garden-friends. It is an AR game in which players can talk to a garden creature to interact with she and help her find some other 'garden friends'. The role of players in this game is really special. A suitable role for player/audience can help them be more immersed in the game. So, I want to take this time to think about the role of audience in my studio work.

Method: This time I decided to make something that can help me with my studio work. And I make a small AR game to test the interactive QR card idea. I created an blank QR card and 4 AR scene. Audience need to fill in a graphic to see different scene. In this project, the role of audience is similar to god. Audience can change the weather of a place and the life of a bird by painting on the paper.

Result: the result is really good. the QR card works really well. But I found a problem: because there are many similarities in four cards, sometimes the AR carmare can't identify the right card. I need to fix it in my studio work.