{"id":354,"date":"2018-08-27T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T17:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/?p=354"},"modified":"2018-08-27T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:10:48","slug":"design-concept-the-royal-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/jjackson\/design-concept-the-royal-mice\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Concept &#8211; The Royal Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the Medieval aesthetics of Loretta Krupinski&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Royal Mice<\/em>, this game is a VR\/Television game meant to be played in groups of more than 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Type of Game:<\/strong> Somewhat Partylike<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audience:\u00a0<\/strong>Youths 10-up, though adults in need of some fun can play as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong>: There will be two groups of players: the first is a singular person (designated &#8220;Cat&#8221;) that is up against either a group of CPU characters or up to 4 human players (designated &#8220;mice&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cat:\u00a0<\/strong>This person will have full access to the VR headset.Through the viewpoint of a beleagured cat, one must focus their way through the darkness and use their senses to determine where mice may be hiding. By following their &#8220;scent&#8221;, one can make a guess as to where the mouse may be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mouse:\u00a0<\/strong>This person should have access to the television. They are everywhere, and need to throw off suspicion. Through crafty movements around the map (presented as a fixed viewpoint of a kitchen, <em>NOT<\/em> top-down), they have two choices to play the game: not get caught and survive the round, or overwhelm the cat&#8217;s senses and make the Queen of All believe they are incompetent. Overwhelming is not readily available to the Mouse characters, but can be achieved through erratic movements or (in a special &#8220;Hard&#8221; mode) summoning or playing as the ghost mice soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the Medieval aesthetics of Loretta Krupinski&#8217;s\u00a0The Royal Mice, this game is a VR\/Television game meant to be played in groups of more than 2. Type of Game: Somewhat Partylike Audience:\u00a0Youths 10-up, though adults in need of some fun can play as well. Description: There will be two groups of players: the first is&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/jjackson\/design-concept-the-royal-mice\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-concept"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}