Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
Mirai: A Message From The Future
Summary
Our project aims at creating a web based visual novel about the problems our planet probably will encounter if people won't be careful.Our character Mirai sends us a message through space an time and tells us what happened to the Earth because of the ignorance.
How We Addressed This Challenge
What did we develop?
We developed a visual novel-like website to attract attention of people from a large age range. Since the character on the screen speaks as the user and it is in a conversation, we thought it would leave more impact on the user.
What does it do ? How does it work?
Our character tells the story of the Earth while chatting with the user and it responses based on the user's choices on the screen. We made a demo but our actual goal is to develop a more detailed version of it, creating a larger decision tree and providing a more free experience for the user.
The more the possibilities, the more the user wonders what our project has to deliver to them.
What do we hope to achieve?
We hoped that we can attract attention to our planet's problems by creating an interactive story and giving the user a chance to chat with a character from the future and choose how to respond to character.
Like we said at the "What does it do? How does it work?" section; by providing different endings, we can keep the user's curiosity alive so they can listen what we have to say to them in order to see the different endings.
And "chatting" factor provides a bond between the user and the character, so the message our character "Mirai" delivers would be more memorable for the user.
Why is it important?
Our character's name, Mirai, means "the future". It is important because we see a message from the future on our screens, and the future itself asks us to fix the past.
How We Developed This Project
What inspired us to choose this challenge?
We thought that we could do something inspiring in this challenge. Our team members are interested in web development, digital art, game development etc. so we thought our skills can be more useful at this challenge.
What was our approach to developing this project?
We approached this project considering people's curiosity and emotions.
By "considering people's emotions" we mean that it would leave more impact on the user if the message came from a person whom they can bond with even if it's a fictional character.
By "considering people's curiosity" we mean the different directions the story might go based on the user's choices. It's entertaining to see what your choices cause.
What tools, coding languages, hardware, software did we use to develop our project?
We used HTML, CSS and Javascript to create a website and for drawing and designing "Mirai" we used Krita. And we used KineMaster to edit our demo video.
What problems and achievements did your team have?
We created a larger and more detailed decision tree but the time was limited so transferring our possibilities to code was a challenge. So we made a shorter version of our visual novel.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We used NASA's environmental researches to gain perspectives about what might the future look like if everything keeps going like this.
Project Demo
Our demo video's link : https://youtu.be/2y-ISTxcE6E
Description Video (Turkish) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zzf_c-B1g&feature=youtu.be
Data & Resources
https://climate.nasa.gov/