This is the first of a series of weekly log posts that cover my meetings with my supervisor, detailing what was discussed and creating plans for the following week.
In this first week we discussed my proposal and clarified some points with it. Specifically I gave details on gameplay and setting aspects of my project. The gameplay will mostly be walking around the game world and interacting objects that may lead to physics or gesture based puzzles. I plan to use a science fiction based setting, specifically a space station style environment. We also discussed the technology I want to use. I had already decided that I would be using Unity as the basis for building the project and was thinking about using the Kinect for controlling the game. The Leap Motion device was mentioned as a possible hands free control option which I will look into.
Virtual Reality is a large focus of my project and part of my report will cover my research into the history of VR and how it applies to games over the years. The primary VR technology I will probably be using is the Oculus Rift though I will be researching other VR technologies and looking into people involved with the history of VR.
I want to be able to demonstrate my programming skills with this project and as such the AI I plan to design and implement for the game will be very important. I haven’t worked out the specifics everything I want the AI to do but ideas I have currently include agents that follow the player as they navigate the world but keeping while keeping a certain distance away and at least one room which is guarded by agents that based their patrol patterns on the last place you were detected.
For this next week I plan to do more reading on VR (the technologies that can be used and how and the people involved), motion control (specifically the Kinect and Leap Motion, though if more come up in my research they will also be looked into), inspirational games and also look into the appropriate assets I could use. By the end of the week I want to have a firm idea what hardware I will be using so I can start practising using them.