Weekly Report 1 [06/10/09]

We discussed meeting up today to go through a few ideas before we had our weekly meeting with Phil.

The overall progress of the project thus far has been mainly throwing ideas around and discussing what each of us want to get out of this project and how can we achieve that. We compiled a list of ideas of possible ways to test how we could invoke and record feeling of paranoia within a test subject.

We browsed the library for subject material and found a few interesting candidates.

After coffee, we met up with Phil and brain stormed more ideas on what we wish to achieve and how to go about this. One of the main subjects of discussion was the use of sound to invoke a sense of paranoia within a player i.e. Pavlovian Theory. We discussed some of the scientific equipment that was available to use and also about the ethics of performing certain tests.

In the coming week we are going to continue researching in to the physiology of paranoia as well as looking at a few more games in which paranoia is used. We should also try to focus our ideas into a singular goal. This way we can get a good head start on the Design Document.

We plan to ask about altering the topic question to a more precise variant which focuses on a specific aspect of the level design. This will enable us clearly define what we want to accomplish from this module.