Interactive Narrative Concept

The theme for our interactive narrative project is "touching space". We derived our inspiration from "Text Rain" but instead of falling letters, we were thinking of "raining cats and dogs".

Initially, we discussed the idea of a more morbid kind of installation with the cats and dogs making sad dying noises as they exited the frame at the bottom of the screen. However, we thought it would be far more enjoyable if we made the cats and dogs turn into "flowers" once they reached the bottom.

We will also incorporate an umbrella which we will color track the speed at which it is moving. The dogs and cats will slide off of the umbrella and fall to the bottom. The faster the umbrella is waved around, the more cats and dogs will start falling, etc.

The message we wanted to go with this interactive project is to spay and neuter your pets. There are a lot of stray cats and dogs leading to overpopulation of these animals. It's very sad to hear about how many of them have to be put down because there just isn't enough funding/supplies/staff to take care of them all. Simply put, there isn't enough "space" which is how we will tie our concept into the theme. 

We might also make the dog flowers and cats pile up as it keeps raining which also creates less space on the screen.