Inception of the concept
The initial idea came for my personal motivation of History and how interesting it is…….
Yes simple as that really, but to define it more properly would actually be regarding history and how interesting it actually is as the topic of history really is about documenting the achievements of humanity and how far they have come from the basic caveman taking many, many years to develop and orchastrate a whole society around ourselves. The purpose of humanity has changes of the number of years we as a race have been alive and the expansion of different topics that helps us develop structures from psychology to technology which has improved the quality.
I love history because of that development of humanity and the method in which it’s docuemented for the modern day includes museums and as a game designer, how can I create a gamified museum experience?
Museums
The primary objective for a museum is to push educational content but from my personal experience I learned a lot from playing video games (not just learning the idea of mechanics) but even silly things such as guns which isn’t really a thing in the UK. In this example, I learned about Guns from playing the game Call of Duty which inspired me to take an interest which guns are more effective than others and why this one was better than the other one. Did I like them for the design? Yes but there were other reasons too. Now please be aware I’m not saying I became a gun enthusiast or someone who wants to use it to cause bodily harm, that’s not the type of person I am, but I did learn a few aspects regardless and but this is a method of learning which isn’t something I normally considered and despite soemthing I didn’t become interest in, I learned something and in this way someone could learn something too from this project.
One thing, I also thought about it is that most museums lack the interactivity to keep that engagement for most people. I understand that people learn more from engaging with something which got me thinking about how would I make a virtual museum that could be interacted with?
Original Idea
My original conception is to allow an artefact in this virtual museum transport the player to something relative to the artefact, for example, if the player interacts with an old walkie-talkie object from the 1940’s they would be transported to a warzone which then they would have achieve an objective which was real event during the war, being graphic and raw but reletive to the artefact and once achieving that objective they are transport back to the museum.
So now we have to evolve the interactivty further from the basic concept………. Let’s get started!!!!!!!!!!!!