ISYS5003Assignment2

Instructions for you:

Your Goal is to navigate from the play menu to the scene menu, to Jordans Scene. You are welcome to explore the other features, scenes, and layouts from the play menu, also giving ideas for full assignment 3 project deployment. Once you have navigated to Jordans Scene, the goal in Jordans Scene also seen in the instructions menu, is to attempt to figure out how much sunlight and nutrients is required for the Red Mangrove to grow, then grow the Mangrove at the best condition you can. There are some bonuses for movement when growth is fully achieved.

Overall UX design Principles achieved in Assignment 2 includes: 

(1) Good Access to the game, built for an Android device specifications on this occasion, and then configured to WebGL and uploaded to itch.io. There are of course more options, plugins that allow being on other AR foundation devices and even dynamically reconfiguring to different computers as well, for game play without AR mostly. 

(2) Simple Background Design a blue background to draw out contrast for the game, simple menus that are easy to navigate using the nav-director scripts, and function calls, placed on the buttons.  Simple story-based linear mechanics with the option of returning either to the scene menu or the main menu, depending upon what the user requires. The menus contain all themes in the Group project as an intersection between biomes and ecosystems. Contrast is specifically used surrounding green and red to see the outline of those shapes, in accessibility situations.  White space is used and Blackfont to be clear and in bold for the buttons, buttons are large enough and far enough a way to prevent issues.

(3) For the Jordans Scene navigation is intuitive with universal symbols and Realestate of the buttons configured in ways that appear on landscape mode for most apps, some examples Clash of Clans IoS , see the design documentation for references. The interactive elements involve if or else logic scripts to tally the scoreboard top right, from another if or else system to do with certain amounts and thresholds to grow the tree. And also Boolean configuration for when the seed is activated and not.

(4)  There is dynamic navigation back a forth between menus. Further Dynamic qualities I wanted to do was collider events for the seed and the ground spawning. The code was to long for this. Also, i was abit concerned about Unity crashes in for a while loop mistakes. Attempts were made to create surrounding collider meshes and gravity mesh landing. A more dynamic slider and more of them could really make thing interesting to teach users and more continuous dynamic scoring. (A dynamic toggle would be optional- not so serious or realistic for plants in most of the time- except for the brief moment of stong wind).

(5) The theme is one of the most popular themes currently looking at games like Zelda, Mario, Pokemon Go etc concepts to do with unity and connection in nature.

(6) The story is appealing in my scene which emphasises growth a growth sensitivity rather than a movement that occurs less frequently on a plant.

(7) Communication features or feed back is almost immediate scoring feedback to the user they are doing well, and the best at tree full growth. Additional features upon a full game could link in social media scoring and badges etc.

(8) Action or actual AR mode hasn't been implemented yet seen in assignment 3.

The entire UX concept is realistic, in growth pattern. However think of growth of this plant over weeks per click, also I didnt want to be to realistic it was brutal to the user e.g withering the plant the tree losing its leaves or opportunities which would frighten or cause distress to some users.

UX Design Principles Applied from Module 1:

(1) Simple yet engaging to create memory and stop cognitive overload. Using white space and contrasts.  Following all of Gestalts Principles seen above. Colour saturation was a bit of a risk but has been carefully handled to contrast outlines of shapes and not overlight the scene. 

Module 2:

Is greatly explored in the design documentation alot,  with a lot of references. 

Module 3: 

Probuilder was used using triangular-based stretching faces and corners. On the landscape and tree. 

With Module 6:

A hybrid game and LMS system could be considered under this scene development. And could be extended to a full project, outside the scope of assignment 2-3.

For UI practices 

Bonus videos and all classes have been watched and implemented for good storage and debugging practices. To stop bad effects, device slowdowns and unity crashes. The debugging log window , it happened a few times.