Aiden's Portfolio - Dragon Blasters

Aiden's Portfolio

Dragon Blasters:

Space Mission

Interactive Shooting Attraction

Role: Project Lead / Technical Coordinator / Interactive Technology Designer

Pitched, designed, and produced interactive blaster focusing on unique, fun, and innovative blaster interaction design

Coordinated multidisciplinary technical and creative teams during design, development, playtesting, marketing, and operations phase.

Prototyped and executed the blasters with sensors, buttons, and microcontrollers
CAD Modelled the blaster on Onshape to support the hardware electronics and executed
Developed story and sets to perfecly fit the technology and expereience

High Concept:

Creative Labs Expo is under attack by Space Dragons! Be Dragon Blasters and blast them all!!!

Story:

Blaster Corp is recruiting new Dragon Blasters to blast the space dragons. Walk into their secret space launch bay in the Creative Expo's storage, travel to space, and blast the dragons!

The Experience

The Experience took place as part of the Creative Labs Expo

Dragon Blasters Experience Video

1.Entrance

Guests walk into the Creative Labs storage room where Blaster Corp's Launch Bay is located. (the storage sign has been ripped by the dragon, revealing the Launch Bay sign)

2.Storage Room / Launch Bay

Guests Watch a pre-show, informing them essential backstory (dragons attacking the expo; they need to blast them all) and addressing them as a part of the story

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3. Space Launch Tunnel

Guests walk up through the Space Launch Tunnel (with lighting and sound effects) to the space!

4. Space Blaster Base

This is a Blaster Corp's Blaster Base in Space. Guests needs to grab physical blasters and blast the dragons!

5. Space Blaster Base II

Mirror selfie photo op, targeting the new generation social media

6. Back to Earth

Guests walk down to earth and watch a post show video saying thank you for saving the expo!

The Making of Dragon Blasters

(Interactive Technology, Blaster Development, Environmental / Experience Design)

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Idea: Let's extend the portfolio category for Creative Labs (Club) and bring themed entertainment!

People love shooting dark rides... let's bring that to life!

Initial Idea: Shooting moving physical target using IR emitter and transmitter! (Frontierland Shooting Exposition)

Problem: Not really engaging... a lot of limit to what we can do with the point system, obstacles, and gameplay. BUT. If we go digital, it's too generic and does not become a physical immersive experience...

Solution: Let's have UNIQUE physical blasters (omg this was a hard - I will talk more about this later in this page) and a digital gameplay BUT with immersive environments connecting the digital and physical world

Initial Sketch

Interactive Technology

Understood the technology and code, researched different sensors and methods, and helped our engineers with execution throughout the tech development stage

IR Sensor research / testing with our engineer (for hardware)

First tested it with LED and then added motors to the target!

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