Senuja Weerasinghe

Kia ora, 

My name is Senuja and I am a final year design student. I have a deep interest in video gaming and it's one of my main hobbies. Particularly, I have an interest in racing simulation games and create youtube videos about sim racing in my spare time. I picked up Media 309 as an elective in order to explore how I can create interactive and engaging experiences through video games.

This page presents my journey so far throughout my 12 week period of undertaking this paper.

One of the first activities that I undertook in this paper related with the idea of immersion. We explored this through the "Unlock" card game series. After trialing a level in Unlock, I was tasked with creating my own short Unlock level. I decided to create a sci-fi scenario of navigating through an escape room in an alien outbreak in a space station. The level had a consistent theme of sci-fi and several of the unlock cards that I made was revolved around this theme to give a sense of immersion. The level was overall straight forward and not too difficult but demonstrated the idea of creating a level of immersion