Environment Style Comparison

Main Video

Inventory video

Only bad decisions

Crow model

Crow Rig

Fish Rig

Animal Textures

First environment models

Campsite models

LowPoly campsite

Canyon opening Realistic

Canyon opening LowPoly

River opening Realistic

River opening LowPoly

Earth note

Overgrown campsite

Exiting Canyon

Player's choice

Holding a fish

Player guidance

Player's choice

Mountain design

Rocky path

Transmedia note

Exiting Canyon

Agency

Agency and guidance

Player's backpack

Logo

About

The goal of this work was to see wheather graphical style alone influences player's decision making. All work was done in collaboration with Akvile Krikstaponyte, for our 8th semester main project in Medialogy edducation, 2018. Results showed that there is no significant difference between two different styles, however some hints that LowPoly style influences players to do more good decisions were observed.

All code, models and textures were created by us using Maya, Photoshop and Unity with C#. Majority of the realistic trees were created using SpeedTree. Two full environments had to be created in different styles of LowPoly and Realistic to compare player's decision making between them.

This project was created using theories of Agency, Environment storytelling, Player guidance and various Narratology techniques. Full scientific paper describing this work in detail can be seen here.

To tell a story through video-game environment events Nano-narrative was created which was described in detail in a separate scientific paper. It covered topic of environmental crysis which was presented through this gamified experience. This separate paper work can be seen here.