Checkpoint 1: Concept Doc (Individual Deliverables) – Cole

1. Narrative: You go to log in to axess to apply to graduate and yourcredentials aren’t working! You get an anonymous message saying your account’s been hacked. Stanford students nowadays don’t appreciate the history and beauty of our campus. To teach you a lesson, you have to scour the campus looking for clues and solve puzzles that will lead you to your sunet account details.
   1. Fun – explorative, time-crunch, team work (divide and conquer), augmented reality
   2. Format – physically explore campus, QR code placed somewhere at the significant location sends you to a mini puzzle that leads you to the next clue, maybe augmented reality elements such
2. Narrative: This narrative is similar to the first, however, the format would be more digital. This adaptation would still involve exploring the physical campus for clues to solve parts of this “escape room” esque game but for the digital component, it would be a replica of Axess where you’d have to explore the website to figure out what this nefarious actor has reset your account details to (think Binary Bomb without the assembly code / Tiny Rooms Story Mystery) where you have to find subtle clues, passwords, patterns within the website and within main quad to help you progress the narrative and gameplay of getting your sunet info back.
   1. Fun – reimagining a website historically not associated with fun and making it into the platform of our game!, physical exploration of campus, puzzle solving, teamwork, digital exploration, fun facts
   2. Format – physical exploration of the campus but a primary focus on the digital exploration of “axess”
3. Narrative: A historical narrative framed as a scavenger hunt. The setting is the main quad of campus. There’s a list of niche objects you have to find within main quad to win. The game progressively becomes more challenging to find items and the hints (formatted as geocache drops at each object’s location is associated how to find the next. Each item is relevant to some historical moment in Stanford’s history such that each clue you look for relates to an incrementally older moment.
   1. Fun – exploration, learning more about the school you go to!, history?, solo exploration, or teamwork/camaraderie associated with working with multiple people
   2. Format – physical exploration and physical clues (maybe QR codes that link to an AR experience that projects an archive image of main quad/a slice of main quad from that time period. Or, when you think you’ve found the object, you take a photo of it and our app or website will tell you if that is in fact the correct location with the attached clue for the next location.