This week, we had the weekly faculty meeting and we realized that we need to pivot our focus from features to the core of the project, which is the agent.

Before last week, we were mainly focusing on the gameplay and all the cool features that we were interested in. However, the goal of this project is to explore the usage of virtual agents that can help the player going through the mixed reality experience. As a result, we need to pivot our focus on to the agent’s behaviors.

After the discussion on this issue, we designed several behaviors for the agent.

1. Agent informs the player about the situation in the play space
2. Agent helps the player going through the tutorial and defeat the first enemy
3. During the fight, the agent will guide the player about the game mechanics and judge the player’s performance
4. The agent will introduce different types of enemy
5. By the end of the fight, the agent can give the player an story ending

Based on these behaviors, we designed a lot of voice over lines for the agent. And planning to use the Google translation voice as place holder for the following play tests. We’ll be using real voice over actor to record the voice in the future.