The Goal of the Game is to Protect the baby named Dale. The lagoon animals see him as a potential meal and you must stop them. Dale is terrified for his life, he gets happier when his health is full. He will feast on the animal bodies to lighten his mood, but he may need some help choosing his meals. The main objective behind protecting a baby and not the player, was to avoid physical interactions with the player that were impossible to recreate with collisions.

As defense for the baby, you can use fists (Controllers), a variety of melee weapons, or The H.O.L.C. that can propell melee weapons and animals, or be used to extend the reach of the melee weapon.

The breakdown of the gameplay and challenges:

This is a birds eye view of the map. You can see the baby in the center, the spawning points of the enemies. You can also see the spline paths they take to reach Dale. Trigger volumes are visible around the island for some of the enemies. The chest is the place where new melee weapons will spawn each round.

We did not incorporate the use of conventional HUDs - these are distracting and detract from an experience where you’re not wearing a helmet or in some sort of vehicle. We will use the face button on the Vive controller to present the health information (Wristwatch). The babies face in full colour is the status indicating that Dale's health is at 100%. As his health decreases it exposes a red image of Dales face indicating that he is losing health and is dying. A full red photo of Dale results in Dale dying and the player loses.

The other main UI component is a large billboard that is nailed to one of the palm trees. This billboard provides information about the level/wave they are currently playing as well as Dale's health. It will display which level they are currently on and how many enemies are remaining. Each enemy is displayed on the billboard so the player knows which enemies are remaining. The Full state shows that there is 100% of enemies of that type remaining. An empty state indicates that there is 0% of that type of enemy remaining. The full image fades away exposing the silhouette in behind.

Dales face is displayed here as well as the wristwatch to demonstrate to the user the baby's importance.

We thought a tutorial level / starting condition prior to the first wave that would demonstrate to the user how to use the weapons, mainly the HOLC. This was done through a graphic displayed on a billboard located on the ground underneath the main billboard. The Billboard contains instructions about how to use the gun.

Another main feature we developed was the dynamic interactive auras between users. We developed node t node collisions between the auras to deform them when they collide. We determined that the aura with the larger radius will deform the smaller aura. The colour will also seep into the deformed aura representing that the more dominant expression will affect the people surrounding you.

We also developed a series of seperate rhythms that would represent the dominant emotion. If two users have the same expression the music will cue the rhythm representative of the dominant expression. The synths work well together and have smooth transitions from the neutral tone to each expression.