rhysjcshaw
P.E.N.I.S
Welcome to the POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT NULLIFICATION & INDICATION STATION, comrade
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'Game-A-Week' Prototype Video Game - Interactive Fiction
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Independant Developer
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March 2023
ABOUT
P.E.N.I.S was a project made as part of the 'Rapid Game Prototyping' module during my second year at university where I was tasked to create a new game prototype fortnightly during the semester.
The weeks theme for this project was 'Rebellion'.
In response to this I created a satirical comedy experience based on the idea that you're rebelling against the ideas and stereotypes portrayed through the characters.
DEVELOPMENT
Whilst I already had adequate experience using Unreal Engine 4/5, this project allowed me to develop a simplistic dialogue system and use emergent text-to-speech AI technology.
I used IIElevenLabs's generative voice AI software to produce the audible dialogue.
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Since I developed this project the use of AI in entertainment has become a relevant and contested debate. Whilst in hindsight I would've preferred not to use AI, in this project it allowed me to effectively demonstrate my project prototype.
SOFTWARE & SKILLS
During the course of this project I chose to use Unreal for its powerful visual-scripting language which allowed me to develop a simplistic dialogue system quickly.
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As mentioned previously I also used IIElevenLabs's generative AI software
