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👥 Team Members

<aside> 🍌 Rohail Khan Co-PM, VR Designer and Developer

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<aside> 🐌 Liqi Zhong Co-PM, AR Designer and Developer

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<aside> 🍄 Intifa Anwar Training Module Designer and Developer

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<aside> 🐶 Brian Jeong Story, Physical Computing, 2D Artifact Designer

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<aside> 💖 Jenny Nguyen Art Director, Brand Identity, Print Artifact Designer

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<aside> ☀️ Galaxia Wu Documentation, 2D Designer, Prototyper

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❔ Problem Statement

<aside> ❓ How might we create an interactive narrative experience that is immersive, compelling, and thought-provoking?

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💡 Initial Research

Our narrative is based on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, so we did research around the themes of freedom to establish our design statement and overarching narrative. After exploring many story ideas, we were inspired by Severance, Black Mirror, and our own lives to create a corporate-style story about being trapped in a company. We compiled and synthesized our research to come up with platform ideas and rationales, project goals, and our narrative storyline.

If desired, our full narrative proposal can be viewed here:

Narrative Proposal.pdf

Design Statement

This project aims to create a thought-provoking virtual reality and augmented reality game that uses Plato’s Allegory of the Cave as a metaphor for the corporate office environment. Through an interactive narrative experience, it explores the theme of being trapped in a deceptive system and explores the difficulty of breaking free, and thus challenging the player to question their own reality and the nature of freedom.

Project Goals

• Intuitive experience through abstract interactive mediums
• Engage users through every facet of the interactive journey
• Define strong gameplay mechanics through elaborate puzzles
• Build unique pathways to tailor experiences based on decisions
• Immerse users in a thought-provoking storyline

📄 Story Overview