Immersive Medien - Ein Unterrichtskonzept

Kieler Kuppel-Kalender 2007
›The Mission‹ by Arely Martinez
he Mission is the idea for an interactive game
that has been developed to be played inside two
continuous 360° domes in real time. […]
here are two reasons for this game to require
2 diferent domes. he irst reason is: the whole
environment in which the players will be surrounded
in. One of the main ideas of the game is
to completely immerse 5 the player into the game.
he second reason is to have a conceptual connection
with the story behind it. Since the whole
story evolves around the balance of good and
evil, this balance should be constant throughout
the whole experience of the game. herefore,
there is dome “Earth”, which in essence is good
and known to us humans and animals that live
in it. he dome “Purgatory”, is not known to any
of us and can bring unexpected scenarios that
may not make sense to earthly living creatures,
and yet they can and do exist in this dome.
he dome “Earth” will be surrounded by mostly
things we recognize from the world we live in
with water, sky, trees, animals and forces of gravity.
As well as the normal day and night, during
the game, there will be a whole day’s worth with
rising of the sun and sunset.
Of course, this time will be speeded up and compressed
into 90 minutes. However, these domes
are meant to be completely unconventional, they
are meant to surround the player into the whole
environment with both the images projected
onto the top of the dome and also the real props
that will be inside the dome. (his applies to
both domes).
Since the setting is centuries ago, the loor of
the dome “Earth” will be completely covered in
dirt, there will be some plants and trees, maybe
some we don’t recognize now because they have
become extinct. he reclinable seats are made
of wood logs but cushioned with cotton plants
for comfort.
As for the dome “Purgatory”, this will be a world
completely strange to humans and the creatures
found there are not of human or animal nature.
he seats will be made of a material that won’t
be recognizable to us and they do not contemplate
the laws of gravity. he player can expect
his or her seat to levitate and change positions
at any given time. (Security precautions will be
taken into account for this feature.) here will be
smells and sights we won’t be able to understand
and yet, these things that will appear cannot let
the player be distracted from the goal. […]
5 Immersion − I agree with Florian Rötzer with his
definition of Immersion: »Interaction and not realism is
the most important prerequisite for immersion«. And
author Barbara Becker states something similar:
»Precondition for the immersion is to possess implicit
contact with people and objects of the situation«. With
these definitions in mind, I have reached a definition of my
own that deals with the concept and development of this
game: Immersion: at least two of our senses should be
involved in the whole experience for it to be really called
immersion. It‹s important that at least two senses are
involved because then, for a certain amount of time, (be
this minutes or hours) the attention span given to the
situation is much higher.
»Graphic of the Dome« – Miriam Pelka
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