Blindness
A 2D game to raise awareness about visual impairment. It's your first day of high school and you have to navigate to your first class. However, there's a problem, you can't see. Navigate through the school building by touching the walls around you until you find your classroom before class starts!
Inspiration
A twist off of the virtual reality project "Notes on Blindness : Into Darkness".
What it does
Shows people the difficulties for students with impaired vision to do simple things such as finding the way to class
How we built it
Using Unity game engine and C# programming
Challenges we ran into
- Collaborating on Unity game files on four different computers and also two different operating systems
- Using reverse-engineering of calculus to determine the brightness of a navigational feature in the game
- Blueprints of our level design wouldn't properly sync between all developers, causing some people to work on something that didn't exist for someone else
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Learning both Unity and C#
- Simplicity is better than complicated and ineffective
What we learned
- Ways to collaborate and merge files over the Unity game engine interface
- Writing scripts for various functions such as menus, levels, and in-game choices
What's next for Unseen
- Transitioning to doors that open only on a key touch, not on close proximity
- Adding more levels, even adding levels with multiple floors
- Move the game into 3D, most likely with Unreal Engine 4
- This would easily allow for a smooth transition into VR
- Adding sound effects in sync with the character animations
Built With
Unity C#