Today’s’ topic

Hello everybody! We’re through half of January already. How time flies! We’re also almost done with this project and the exams. Today in this topic, I will be talking mostly about my personal goal for Submarine Explorer during this exam project, and a little bit about the future of Submarine Explorer.

My personal goal for Submarine Explorer
Since the start on this project, my goal for this project was to adapt it for physical disabilities. Well, I made a mistake. After I contacted the company I talked about a few posts ago, I only called them once and waited for an answer which meant that I wasn’t active. I know one reason why I didn’t call after the first. As a person, whenever I hear that someone says that They will get in touch later. I will wait until they get in touch, which isn’t a good side from me. Everything was my fault and I can’t blame anyone except for myself when it came to that. I guess it would’ve worked if I was a lot more active and called them a couple more times.

What happens now?
Well. After my mistake, I talked to my teachers about it. We discussed that I could change my focus on people with color blindness. I had somewhat knowledge about it and wanted to try and research it more. I learnt that when someone is colorblind on a certain color, the other colors stretch to cover that color.

Before this project is finished, I also have to write a report about my personal goal. There’s three different parts. The result, knowledge and reflection. I know that I can write a lot on knowledge and reflection since I’ve learnt lots of things about my personal goal and during the development of Submarine Explorer. However, the result might be a bit difficult. How am I supposed to write the result when I don’t have anything about my personal goal?

I thought that I was screwed and was gonna fail my exam. But all hope was not lost! I heard from friends that even if you fail to get a result, just write everything else that you have been working on and tell the reasons why you worked on just those. I was so happy to hear that and got lots of motivation to write everything that I had done during our development of Submarine Explorer. While I was waiting to get a call, I wanted to learn how to create 3D models in Blender, I also made a level for the game. After about eight weeks, I managed to create a quite a bunch of models.

This is a list of all my models in one picture (The whale shark has been shrunk a lot so that it can fit with the others). When I started to create models, I thought that my models would look really horrible and you couldn’t even call it a fish or a model for that matter. But I was quite wrong, I think that they’re decent models and I’m happy about them. Overall I had a really fun ride making 3D models. I even think I will be working with more 3D modeling in the future. Will it be for Submarine Explorer? Who knows…

This is a picture from my level that I have made. I would like to say that this is my level in a nutshell, there’s not really that much you can do except enjoy a dark view in the deep ocean with a seatroll looking at you. There’s a couple of ruins, corals and a some of my models. I also got the idea of making the spiral coral shine in the darkness which won’t make my level completely dark.

This picture of the seatroll in its home was the whole reason I created my level. I pitched an idea to the group where the seatroll will stare and follow the player’s movement. They were interested and I made the level. I also got a problem when making the level, it was kind of empty and had nothing interesting except the seatroll. I thought about this and realised that in real ocean bottoms, it’s also very empty. It only has sand, stones and sometimes cliffs. To make my level a bit more interesting, I added corals and some ruins to fill the emptiness.

Before I heard the great information from my friends. I thought that I didn’t do anything on this project, but that wasn’t true! I did lots of things without realising it. But, am I still happy about my personal goal? Yes. However, I’m still very curious about if you can adapt a game that’s in VR to people with physical disabilities. From what I have researched, the military practised dangerous situations with the help of VR. How cool is that? But how can that compare with my goal? From my hypothesis, I still think that VR is still new to that angle with adapting physical disabilities. There wasn’t that many articles and statistics about this that I found.

The future of Submarine Explorer
Well. It is already the last week of developing Submarine Explorer during school time and as a group. It has been a very fun ride with everybody in the group. We had lots of fun memories during this project. But good things must come to an end, this Thursday will be the end of our exams and start our Internships. We as a group will be putting down this project and move on with our own goals, but Submarine Explorer will still be open for the whole group to develop if someone wants to continue.

This will also be my last post for this project. A big thank you all for reading this post and have a wonderful day!
Regards
Tim