Welcome to Crystal Island
Crystal Island was created to be a unique virtual exploration experience. We wanted users to be surrounded by interesting shapes, colors, and textures. In exploring the world of Crystal Island, users collect opals in order to bring the light back to the world. Each opal collected increases the amount of light on the island allowing users to have a better view of the world around them.
In creating Crystal Island, we learned a program that was new to all of us - Unity. Our constrains were what we were able to learn within a semester's time. Throughout the development of Crystal Island, our concept changed many times due to time constraints or what we were able to do.
At the start of the process, we were planning on having multiple islands for the user to explore. We settled on just one because of the time we had. We also changed the effect the opals have on the island from affecting the color to affecting the light. This was to have the opals impact the environment rather than the objects on the island. Having the focus on the environment rather than the objects focuses the users more on issues of the environment in real life rather than having them focus on material objects. We wanted to create a calming and relaxing environment for our users to enjoy and give them a reason to make their surroundings better by bringing the light and beauty back to the land around them.
