development 2. target.

Managed to put the target in like I wanted with the center of the ellipse lighting up when it hits it. For a while I have been trying to make sound happen to the ellipse target when it gets hit by the bullet but for some reason it keeps repeating and also with an interaction when it hits the edges where if I try make it grow bigger on contact of the sides it seems to freeze.

Final

I'm not too happy with the overall aesthetics with this project and think with more time I would of focused more on the looks while most of my time was used up in the interaction. saying that I'm happy with the interaction. it may be simple in a way but its quite fun how its like your own toy gun that you can even load and you know when its firing with the sound so the sound goes well with the visuals and makes it obvious that its a gun that you are firing and how its a slightly abstract take on a bullet how it can ricochet so many times and you with the visual as well as the sound when it hits the edges. To add to the arcade sense of it with the target you can fire the bullet to try hit it any way including firing it up into the air out of the screen to make it come back down and hit the target. With more time I would of liked to learn how to make the ball slightly deform and explode and come back together when it hits the wall as this is just one of many ideas i had on the looks as I think this has a lot of potential in the aesthetics.

development.

Got the clicking and gun firing sounds in fine when you fire the ball. working on now putting in the target.

Storyboard

Precedent images

Im looking at the way a bullet fires and how bouncy balls bounce off surfaces and what noises are made with both bullets and bouncy balls.

Reflection.

Im happy with the outcome of the application that was made because in the end I did managed to get and illusion feel to it. However with more time and to develope this further I would of liked to make more of the ellipses and make them smaller and add in fireing the ball through all the ellipses and you have to find the real one that way. this would of been more interesting than just moving the mouse around.

Description.

 I based my interaction on illusions so you have to figure out how the application works first but it is not over complicated so anyone can do it. When you first see the application you see several ellipses moving around independently but when you go to move one of the ellipses you will find that only one of them actually interacts with the mouse and gets pushed by it. The one ellipse that can only interact with the mouse is like the “leader” because when u push the “leader” all the other ellipses follow. Kind of like worker bees following the queen bee. So the illusion is created by you thinking that you can move each ellipse when you cannot. With the visual aspects of the application two ellipse’s are on top of each other and flashing while at the same time changing their shape slightly every time it flashes. The idea behind it is that when you find the “real” ellipse and you can try meshing all the ellipses together which will make different shapes and images.