The notable milestones of this week involved further progress on the Leap Motion mechanics, the start of set construction, and a rescoping of the narrative organization.

After completing the dial, slider, and button interaction last week, the Leap Motion team moved on to the final few hand mechanics this week with the addition of page interactions in books and the start of wire physics.

Here is a demonstration video of the page turning mechanics that may be used for the reference manual that users will interact with during their time in the experience.

This week we also purchased our first asset pack to begin construction of the set where most of the experience will take place. Based on reference materials from 1980 office spaces we decided to go with a theme halfway between retro and industrial with pastel colored machinery and only practical furniture such as file cabinets.

Depicted here is a screenshot of the partially complete with work for the time being focused predominantly on textures and color palette before more effort is put in to the more detailed assets.

The last notable progress was on refining the narrative to align with the mechanics we intend to use during the experience. The team worked on a flowchart of events to scope out the mechanics that need to be developed and track progress towards completing all the necessary mechanics. The flowchart will be referenced when nailing down the sequence of narrative events in each of the three scenarios we present in our final demo.

Moving forward the team plans to have the first draft of the setting complete by next week so that mechanics can start to be connected to the assets that will be used in the final product. The goal is to have a functional demo of at least some of the mechanics by the next checkpoint so that progress can then shift to programming the timing specific sequences and more detailed narrative elements.