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Neptune and Dimanche welcomed Fluorine to the family this morning. Fluorine is the ninth element in chemistry. The most suitable bird to become #9 is a blue-capped Cordon Bleu finch. After courting with several species at local bird markets we found our Fluorine. She looks like this.
Not going anywhere for spring break?
Come playtest Andrew Revolski with us!
Robert Zemeckis Center for the Digital Arts
Zemeckis Media Lab (RM 201) on March 16, 2006
11am-2pm
ABOUT THE GAME
Andrew Revolski is a multiplayer network game played in an environment consisting of multiple displays. The players are placed in two different remote locations and by having mutual interactions, the game allows the players to experience a cooperative phenomenon.
CONCEPT
We believe that even if a group of people were to be placed in 2 different locations, as long as these people have the same goal and work towards this goal together by communicating and taking cooperative actions with each other, a cooperative phenomenon will occur and unite these group of people who are separated. Andrew Rivolski is a network game focused on this cooperative phenomenon.
GAME DESCRIPTION
The game will be played by 2 teams of players placed in 2 different locations. Each team will play in a room where 3 of the walls function as displays (2 in the front and 1 on each side). The players view the same interface, meteors flying from side to side of the displays towards a lonely satellite. The players of each location must cooperate with each other by using the 9 floor panels placed in each other's rooms to maneuver the satellite with out being hit by meteors.
Andrew Rivolski is a game in which the player must safely control the satellite away from attacking meteors. The average play time of the game is approximately 5 minutes. This is just about enough time for the players to understand the message of the game. There are several stages in the game and as the players get used to the controls, the game should last about 15 minutes until completion.