The Mind Unleashed!

Thesis Year - Blog Post 5

Creativity – an innate and uniquely human mechanism that is responsible for the creation of art. I’ve been working on my draft for my first support point…

Support Point 1: Video games are a form of art, art is proven to be an important source of healing and restoration during, and post, times of crisis.

… and I think it came out rather well (link here), the explanation of creativity will serve as my link from talking about examples of art being a source of healing/restoration, to taking about how the project, as an art piece, serves as a source of healing and restoration for the developers and players. I have decided I will be creating interview questions regarding development/gaming during/about the pandemic in the break between semesters and interview willing participants both before the Spring 2022 semester and in the first few weeks of said semester for my paper.

The responses to these questions (of which will be targeted and no more than 5 total) will be used across the paper relating to various aspects of game development and gaming during/about the pandemic, relating to my 4 support points.

On the project side of things… smooth sailing still. Model of the environment progresses, as does models of the installations within that environment, the digital art to be displayed is also on track to be completed soon. I will be showing to Ulm and the Thesis class where this project is during the 10/06 class. Should we get further along (environment completed, 3 or 4 installations completed, 2 digital art pieces ready), we may participate in the upcoming Clark Fall Fair on 10/29.

What was completed during Sprint 2 can be seen in the Sprint 2 slides linked here!