Journey to Enlightenment
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CDM Masters Digital Media Projects
- Game Designer
Greater Vancouver's 'International Buddhist Temple' inspired adventure game!
Our first assignment for the Masters of Digital Media Program, “Building Virtual Worlds” class was to create an interactive experience based upon a Vancouver landmark. Our team pulled 'The International Buddhist Temple', the largest Buddhist temple in the Greater Vancouver area. We decided to make an adventure game based around learning and using the core tenants of Buddhism. It was an amazing learning experience, since, as the team looked to me for instruction, writing, level design and general direction on, I quickly realized how much detailed planning went into even the simplest of games. The extremely tight delivery deadline for the game taught me a thing or four about scoping, as my original design called for six levels representing the Buddhist cosmos which I soon had to tighten and scale down into three. The result was a fun and quirky, nicely illustrated, quest game for young people to become interested in Buddhism.
