Abstraction and Interactivity: An Exercise in Design Representation
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2022-12
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Strait, Jack
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"This project seeks to explore the possibilities and limitations of creating a video game entirely on Microsoft PowerPoint and Photoshop. The creation titled ROCHE LIMIT: The Death of CMK is a short, surrealist experience featuring well over a thousand animated and hyperlinked slides strung together over the course of eight months.
The game’s plotline is the following: Entirely by accident, you help a man evade a mysterious danger inside his home. You enter the building, and upon discovering the same strange horrors, find that there is no one to aid you in your escape.
In addition to this central playable deliverable, the project involved the curation and assembly of a soundtrack posted online a week prior to ROCHE LIMIT’s release. It collages a wide variety of open-source audio clips in order to create an unusual ambience specific to the game alone. The final facet of ROCHE LIMIT involved various promotional methods including but not limited to, a physical game case, a local launch event, launch event posters, and a novel “found object” advertising method deployed across the ISU campus."
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Gleeson, Andrew