C&C - Minerva Project - week1

28/01/08
Given brief at HSAD, told what groups people were in, I was grouped with Leon, Dan and Roger. Group members present were Leon, Roger and myself. Basically we discussed the brief, brainstormed initial ideas and exchanged contact details so we could arrange future meetings for discussing the project. After our intial conversation we realised we wanted to create a hunt that involved the user having to work out various codes to get to the next clue. We came up with several ideas for these and other tasks for the user to complete on the quest.

Tasks for user:
1. An envelope containing a piece of A4 paper with, seemingly random sections cut out which, when lined up with a page from a book (written on the bottom of the page) spells another clue for the user.

2. Visit a place where we have written coordinates for GoogleEarth (e.g 100,236,104,708), this takes the user to another random place on Google Earth for the next clue.

3. Send the user down an alleyway with a Youtube address written in chalk above them. Entering this address in a browser will take the user to a a YouTube video which will feature a character which congratulates them for making it up to point in the game and reveals the next clue.

4. The user has to find a hidden spade and dig where X marks the spot, they will find a key which unlocks a room somewhere. Inside the room they find a camera on a tripod with a note attached saying 'Zoom In and Take A Look', the user zooms in and sees the next clue written in an obscure place that would have been impossible to see without using the camera. (This ones maybe a little OTT). We realised we could use YouTube for displaying video created by us, giving great flexibility in what we could create. We could utilise GoogleEarth by writing the coordinates (latitude and longditude) for the user to find somewhere, they then enter the coordinates into GoogleEarth and are taken to the chosen location which has a clue.

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