AGI_studio2[week1] : Statement of Intension, sketch

Statement of Intension

Project: If you were me (temporary)

This project is an interactive 3D environment which is created to express how student in Thai education system feel about their environment. Players will experience or interact with the environment within 3D surreal world.

Rationale

            This project will be made to be express the feeling of students who have experienced mental and physical abused caused by education system.

Schools in Thailand, especially public schools, the rules and tradition are very strict. Regardless the human rights, there is the rules that girls under grade 9 must keep their hair short and boys under grade 9 must have buzz cut. Most of schools are managed under the concept of authoritarianism that students are forced to be under an obligation to the teachers.

The objective of this project is to communicate or fetch these feelings of being under pressure through surreal world to the players.

Context

There are some similar works that has been published. For example,

• Gris (2018) by Conrad Roset
• Journey (2012) by Thatgamecompany, SIE Santa Monica Studio, Tricky Pixels

The story of this game will be character exploring new environment inspried by 'Alice in the wonderland'

Methods

Due to the situation of COVID-19 pandemic, the survey will be taken on students in Thailand by using google form spread through social network platform, such as Twitter, Facebook. The feedback will be summarized and visualized into art works as the concept art

The content that will be answered by students is

1. Type of school that you are studying in
2. Span of age
3. Have you ever been physically abused by the education personnel or other student? (choices with subjective)
4. Have you ever been mentally abused by the education personnel or other student? (choices with subjective)
5. Please express your feelings when you are at school. (subjective)
6. Please express your feeling to any education personnel or other people. (subjective)

In the production process, models and animation will be created by using Maya, after that, they will be made the interaction in Unity engine.

Outcomes

            The final product will be a 3D environment game prototype which players can learn the story by controling the character to interact with game objects or environment.