ForeSight

Immersion Frameworks

Farewell North

Farewell North is an open-world adventure game in which users play as a collie traveling with their owner to restore color to bleak islands through exploring the land and sea, uncovering hidden paths, evading monsters, and freeing wildlife. What is inspiring is the sense of connection and collaboration between the collie and owner, especially as you work towards an emotional parting narrative at the end. It's meaningful because it promotes themes of empathy and perseverance, the idea that people aren't meant to go through life alone, and that life is more colorful, happier, and fulfilled with animal companions. On a technical level the mechanic used to restore color back to the islands inspired us to use a similar mechanic where we change what the user sees in the scene to represent the present and the vision of the future.

Journey

Journey is a wordless story told through gameplay and visual-only cutscenes. Its impressive use of visual and auditory elements along with the sense of companionship created without being able to directly communicate with other players create a moving and emotional experience that we were inspired by. We are striving to achieve a similar effect with a fox companion that feels alive and behaves independent from the users actions but one that can also be interacted with to build a connection to the fox companion.

ABZÛ

ABZÛ is an underwater exploration game where you play as a diver exploring the depths of the ocean. One of the goals is to introduce marine animal life back to areas which are void of life due to some kind of conflict which has left the oceans in desolate conditions. Through the use of visual and auditory design, the game has a "zen" feeling to it and helps establish a connection with the environment. It brings awareness to the ocean crisis and how we should cherish marine life. ABZÛ's impressive narrative and discussion on topics related to marine life inspired us to create a VR experience that embodies a similar emotional weight to it that would make the immersants more conscious on their impacts on the climate.

Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact is an open-world role-playing game with various environments to explore. Each of these environments has its own unique history and aesthetic, but all of them are stylized with colourful and vibrant textures and wildlife. Our team is inspired by the game's art direction and its feeling of complete freedom to explore. The exploration aspect of Genshin Impact is also enhanced by various interactable items across each environment, guiding players across the seemingly endless virtual worlds. These items often have obvious affordances, particularly a shining effect, which inspired us to make our own interactable items highlighted during the "future view."

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is a unique blend of first-person-shooter and horror set within an open-world environment. Their concept arts have a visual aesthetic very similar to our visions for the “dead” environments. In particular, dead trees and fallen civilization equipment are aspects that we would like to incorporate into our own virtual world.