First Proposal v4

Title
- The Investigation of the Sources of Water Pollution

Abstract

• This project is a virtual application which consists of few game genres such as adventure, puzzle and role-playing. This game is mainly for educational purpose which is to create an awareness to people about the sources of water pollution and its effects.
  
  
• Player will play as a young learner and he is going to investigate what causes and effects of water pollution.
  
  
• The story of the application is mainly focus on how do human activities affecting the natural environment, what are the possible effects and how well player can understand all of these.
  

Target Audience

• Kids, Teenagers (7 to 12 years old)
  

Goal / Problem Statement

• This project aims to create awareness to the user on the importance of water resources to human.
  
  
• The application is created to educate user since learning from interactive application is more effective than from reading from book, especially for kids nowadays. Not all of the kids know much about what kind of activities might causes pollution and what are the effects if these activities keep on going unstoppable.
  
  
• With the use of VR technology, this application can be better especially when it consisted of virtual environment with game elements. User can also get the experience of serious effects of pollution and exploring beautiful natural environment through virtual application.
  
  
• The idea of this project is not considered totally new but to make it different, game elements which to be included will make this project looks more interesting and innovative. The reason I want to do this kind of project because I think this is one of the best methods to create an edutainment application.
  

Objective

• To educate user about the sources of water pollution.
  
  
• To educate user on how to determines river and water quality.
  
  
• To create awareness about health threats of water pollution,
  
  

Benchmark

Feel and Look


Dragon Quest VIII - The style of the environment


FN Online


Harvest Moon - STH

Space and Form











- Sungaijuru.com

Emotion

Colorful (Catch the Bears)


Bright


Fairy Tale style (Ragnarok Online 2)

Interaction, Interface and Devices


Dragonica - Interface


Game Interface Style - Navigation


Water Quality Test - Interaction 1


Collect Samples - Interaction 2


Answer Question - Interaction 3



References and Research

The river quality of Malaysia from 1990 to 2006

Environmental Benchmark


Polluted river near industrial area


Polluted River



River Quality Test - reference links
http://www.yes-reedbeds.co.uk/river_testing.htm#Risk%20Assessment

Introduction to Water Quality Testing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3DvCCifdr0

Water Quality Monitoring ; pH
http://www.fivecreeks.org/monitor/pH.html

How to test your Water Quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgrqwHSizU

Kids test River Water Quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv2XRDmMoJM

Water Quality Testing Color Card explanation
http://www.sensafe.com/PDF/487986_Color_Card.pdf

Water Quality and Pollution - Short Journal
http://www.oceandocs.net/bitstream/1834/183/1/WATER%20QUALITY%20AND%20POLLUTION%20.pdf

Activities regarding to monitoring the health of the water and its all about river pollution.
Sungaijuru.com
http://www.sungaijuru.com/v2/category/river-pollution/

Sources
http://www.environmentlaw.org.uk/rte.asp?id=90

http://www.quia.com/jg/249456.html

Effects of Water Pollution
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/effects-of-water-pollution.html

Student deign video game to aid in recycling, pollution control
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2010-04/uoh-sdv042110.php


Water pollution - overview

Description

Before entering to game scene, the introduction of the application will be displayed, then followed by basic control and navigation guide. Guide NPC (Non-Playable Character) will be presented in that scene to tell user what to do, and it will be pop out through GUI when player is in the scene.

In both levels, user will play as a young investigator who is going investigate the causes of water pollution. There will be a lot of information regarding to the reasons of pollution, such as water pollution caused by factory, farm and so on. User is to investigate the rivers to test the water quality to check whether the water is polluted or not. In level 1, User can gather these information and completed the tasks given before proceed to level 2.

Interaction Description

• User will be able to walk around through directional keys on the keyboard.
  
  
• Mini map will be appeared on the top right of the scene.
  
  
• User can click on the objects/NPC that can be interacted. Information will be displayed through events window and also pop-up windows.
  
  
• User can pick up items by touching the items instead of clicking it. If user’s inventory is full, the items will not be picked.
  
  
• User will be presented in both 3rd person and 1st person camera views.