Capstone Week4
Feedbacks from last week:
Last week I had a talk with Clay and he suggested to start with coming up with a good story first before diving into the game mechanic. The reason why I was lost was probably because of I don’t know the direction that I’m trying to go. And I just ends up being in a rabbit hole and I’m not gaining anything from it.
Besides, Clay also provided me with a lot of current news source as inspiration. There’s many crisis that are happening in the world that needs more attention and these news can be told with counting numbers.
After looking over at some of the news recently, I’ve got my eyes on "Israeli–Palestinian conflict”. After looking into various news report. It’s heartbreaking form me to see so many people suffering from this conflict. All the blood shed, tears drop and heart break that is happening around them is really gut-wrenching to see.
To advocate the impact of the conflict and the life that’s been lost during war, I will collect news source from all perspective and media to showcase all major events that happened in the past 100 days of war between Israeli and Palestinian.
(Disclaimer 1 : The following blogs (game experience) aims to present a factual and neutral overview of the events that occurred during the recent 100 days of the Palestine-Israeli war. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy and impartiality, interpretations of historical events can vary. This narrative is based on available historical records and sources, and any omissions or errors are unintentional. It is important for readers to consult multiple sources and perspectives to gain a comprehensive understanding of these complex events.)
I don’t intend to express any political view point, the only thing I intend to express is the cruelty of war and the tragic impact on all affected civillians.
Just to get me started on building a game demo, I solely based on an article from Reuters’ “Major events during 100 days of war between Israel and Hamas” article. This article presented the events in a chronological order, starting with the tragic event on Oct 7th, 2023.
Game-mechanic brainstorm
With the the events presented in front of me, I have a rough idea on how to tell the story with my intended game mechanic and how the game will progress(based on the Oct 7th event):
Each event is a scene, for this event, it takes place at the communities.
For each up arrow tap, it represents one Hamas entering the community.
an alternative could be one tap = one Israeli civilian being killed/captured
the player can only press up arrow, and the scene won’t progress until
all (specific number of)Hamas gunmen are presented on screen
all Israeli civilians are being killed or captured.
For each down arrow tap, a screenshot/audio/video of the event reporting news media will show up.
I’m still thinking of an alternative interaction, maybe I’ll have it as I make it.
I also wanted to include other events that are happening outside of affected area, to showcase how world politics can affect the hundreds and thousands of lives in this tragic event. For example, United Nation Security Council’s voting regarding the conflict.
Up arrow = agree vote
Down arrow = against vote
And i hope to briefly introduce the resolution presented on all the different meanings and the reason why each represented countries are voting “agree” or “against”
Objective for next week:
Create a 3 scene demo, to demonstrate the idea and get feedbacks on how I should approach this topic without getting into trouble.
