CORPORATION CREEK
WELCOME TO MERRI CREEK! WELCOME TO CORPORATION CREEK! Corporation Creek takes place in the heavily polluted Merri Creek, a tributary of the Yarra River. You are tasked with either supporting the major global corporations to take over the landscape, or boycott and attempt to inhibit their relentless development. The aim of the game is to firstly augment people’s movement in space via GPS gaming; secondly, raise awareness of important environmental issues that are often brushed aside. thirdly, to experiment with algorithmic procedural landscape generation.
GAME DAY WELCOME TO GAME DAY! You are given the power to bring change to Merri Creek, will you use it to save the trees, or will you further the agenda of the corporations?
You are required to: - Play the game for a minimum of ten minutes. - Record/screen capture any interesting game event - Report findings back to the group - Upload noteworthy event captures onto Instagram
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LETS PLAY
THE WEBSITE When you have finished playing the game, remember to upload any interesting game event you captured onto Instagram, using the hashtag #corporationcreek2016 . Follow @corporationcreek on Instagram and visit the website http://kuaj96.wixsite.com/corporationcreek .
BLACKBERRY GEEMO Attributes: - Dominant - Low stress - Quickest spread - Fastest aging Most common corp., occurs more in high vegetation areas. This corporation is looking to take over as much land as possible, in order to propagate more genetically-modified crops. The higher the yield, the more $$$.
FENNEL WATERCORP ENTERPRISES Attributes: - Most Dominant - Medium stress - Slowest spread - Slowest aging Occurs more in high moisture areas. Ever since the privatisation of water was sanctioned by the government, Watercorp Enterprises have been monopolising water resources, re-branding natural water into saleable commodities.
STINKWORT CHEMIA INDUSTRIES Attributes: - Less Dominant - Super high stress - Quick spread - Quick aging
AGENT & WAYPOINT
Occurs more in higher elevations. This corporation is all about extracting natural elements and processing them into chemicals that will be used for a myriad of products. Of course, they do not care about pollution.
HAWTHORN LAND INCORPORATED Attributes: - Least Dominant - High stress - Slow spread - Slow aging Occurs more on areas with high human activity. Farming and agriculture has always been an important aspect to humanity, but these guys are on another level, seeking to take over as much land as possible for their farming and soil minerals business.
USER INTERFACE
Get to know how the interface works! This is a simple GPS-based game where your character moves in relation to your real world movement. It also uses user touch input to alter in-game conditions.
THE PLAYER OBJECT
TREE AMOUNT SLIDER
GEEMO WATERCORP
CHEMIA LAND INC. DESTROY COUNT
HOSTILE TOUCH
To destroy the corporation buildings, you will need to find and tap onto these two hostile waypoints that work for a limited duration:
KILLER WAYPOINT Destroys corp. within large area
*one-finger touch*
The waypoints will also allow you to destroy buildings by simply tapping onto them on the screen.
FERTILE TOUCH To grow the corporation buildings, you will need to find and tap onto this green waypoint that work for a limited duration:
FERTILE WAYPOINT Promotes corp. growth around local area
This waypoint will also enable you to “draw” out buildings via three-finger swipe for a set amount of time.
*three-finger swipe*
THE AGENTS
Choose which ever to spawn: a fertilising agent which reduces the amount of tree stress, or a stressing agent which helps the corporations grow faster.
CHEMIA FERTILISING AGENT
CHEMIA STRESSING AGENT
LAND INC. FERTILISING AGENT
LAND INC. STRESSING AGENT
GEEMO FERTILISING AGENT
GEEMO STRESSING AGENT
WATERCORP FERTILISING AGENT
WATERCORP STRESSING AGENT
STARTING STATES
STRESSED TREES
DIFFERENT CORPS GROWING
KINGS APPEAR ATTEMPT TO DESTROY
WAY POINTS