Reef the Game

Game concept and concept art for a research project
(http://vrr.com.pl/index.php/2016/01/27/live-the-design-process)

The player travels through the Coral Reef. Through interactions with the
with the environment, the user can influence the surroundings. With his actions, he can observe changes
in the ecosystem: changes in colors, sounds, the formation of corals and, finally, the appearance of life forms.
The game is an audiovisual journey. Diving in the warm, deep ocean. The experience begins quietly, the water is opaque, the view blurry.
The player moves slowly. He sees pale shapes of skeletons of reef organisms and large fields of shiny plastic objects. Plastic particles fill the water, and many thin
translucent bags. He can only hear the water.
As the player interacts, the view becomes clearer and more colorful. The sound changes clearly
and harmonious. Pale skeletal structures cover variants of soft and abstract coral shapes in vivid colors. The coral reef moves
in a very organic way, like dancing on waves.
The story is about cleaning the system and bringing it back to life. It's about the coral reef, but also about the human body and the whole world as one big ecosystem. Whatever you do, it affects everything around you.