"Dementia Simulator" between the new games on show in Dundee
- May 8, 2015
- In the Tayside and Central Scotland section
A video game that simulates the effects of Alzheimer's disease, is one of the ongoing work shows the power of Abertay Digital Graduate University.
More than 170 students put the artwork on display at the University through the weekend.
A project provides a first-person perspective of the occurrence of "confusion" and "worrying" for dementia.
Other presentations are meditative game, without challenge, and a drawing in the United States military research.
The annual collection of works by students in their final year at the University regularly presents new approaches of games and digital art.
Tarvet Alexander was eager to use their project to increase "Forget Me Knot" raise awareness about the impact of memory loss in people with Alzheimer's disease, the patients themselves and their families.
He said: "Computer games are one of the most important ways for people to a situation that you need to know, certainly explore, created a new world to many games that explore with fantasy and fiction, but I wanted to see. , something much more serious.
"Alzheimer's is a devastating disease for patients and their families, and the Forget-Me-Knot game the player gets an immediate sense of confusion, the character feels.
"You are in your living room, it should be a safe and supportive space, but was hostile and disruptive, as memories lost personal items around the room.
"The player is in the same position as the person with Alzheimer's disease -. The two have to explore the area and to try to gain an understanding of pictures and letters through the tracks rebuild left on the shelves and in drawers"
Another project on the display attempts to recreate the experience of meditation on a game.
Amy Stevens presence as a game in which players could develop lost in a world of serene calm and not finish the challenges or trim levels.
She said: "As the complexity and the challenge that many games, is fun, there are times when this can escape an obstacle to the just in the history or in the world, especially when you feel stressed and not want frustration.
"I try a feeling that is similar to meditation that create concentrated way on the present moment as a result of worry and stress drift. I think there is a similarity between this sense and as a player immersed in a game even if they do not recognize.
"I think the games have enormous potential as an art form, and we have only the surface of what is possible to scratch."
Military research
Computer Arts student Jess Hider based on the work of the head of the US Air Force, believable to create their game animations.
She used the research "situational awareness" military development animated characters that are more credible for the environment they react in about to begin.
She said: "This year I played a lot of games that are trying to figure out what I wanted to do for my thesis are and during that time I realized that in most games that I had played the character was great, to make physical environment but as soon as she responds to the tone of their surroundings.
"What bothered me, because I found most striking in areas where the rest of the environment was clearly sending a particular environment.
"When the lighting, textures and sounds to create a certain atmosphere, animations why not aligned his character mean?"
The University of Abertay Digital Map is open from 16.00 clock bis 20.00 clock Friday 12h00-16h00, Saturday and Sunday, 9: 00-12: 00 on Monday.
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