{"id":1221,"date":"2025-10-22T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayakooi.nl\/?page_id=1221"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:35:01","slug":"gan-eden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mayakooi.nl\/index.php\/gan-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Gan Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Gan Eden<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A team project based on our experience in Berlin. I was in charge of the outside garden, it's foliage assets and the weird tree in the greenhouse.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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On our trip to Berlin, we had a single task. To experience, and take notes of our senses in those moments. Based on our memories and notes, we were taskes to make a game capuring the feeling<\/strong> we had in one of our experiences!<\/p>

We saw plenty of things, but decided to make our game about the wonder<\/strong> of the botanical gardens, combined with the overwhelming<\/strong> and uneasy<\/strong> evening to the exclusive club Berghain.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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You, the tourist<\/strong> photographer, have stumbled into a gorgeous, sunny botanical garden<\/strong>. You are tasked with taking pictures of the 3 sights<\/strong> to see. The<\/strong> greenhouse is not one of them<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>

There are strange noises<\/strong> coming from the\u00a0greenhouse, and it’s always lurking in your vision somewhere. If your curiosity gets the better of you, you’ll find a developing intense techno experience<\/strong> with strobelights which comes to a dizzying cresendo<\/strong> in front of a strange tree.<\/p>

If you choose to ignore the greenhouse, you can leave the beautiful garden after having taken all pictures. What a nice trip!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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When designing the garden layout, I had to think about the greenhouse. It had to draw the attention<\/strong> in a subtle way, so you would be confronted with it, but it shouldn’t be trown in your face. Ideally, the players should have a 50\/50 entering rate.\u00a0<\/p>

I accomplished this by putting the greenhouse in the centre, and by making the paths so you would have to walk by it.\u00a0<\/p>

I kept the height of the foliage<\/strong> in mind, so the greenhouse would peek out or be obscured by it. Low foliage is in light blue<\/strong> and high\/dense foliage is in red<\/strong>. The green<\/strong> spots are the POV’s where the player would be fully confronted with the greenhouse.<\/p>

The final layout<\/strong> has changed, but still has the key features of the sightlines.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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I created the flowers, bushes and trees<\/strong> for another project as well as this one. Check it out here!<\/a><\/p>

These models were created with the tutorials of Victoria Zavhorodnia. After getting familiar with the workflow by working on the easiest mesh<\/strong> (the foxglove), I gradually worked on harder meshes<\/strong> and figuerd out my own ways of making the meshes. For example, the cornflower<\/strong> has a unique structure, which was fun to translate to 3D.<\/p>

The flower textures were handdrawn, and the shader<\/strong> udes UV height<\/strong> to simulate the wind strength. As a result, I had to keep in mind that the top parts of the flowers would be placed high in the UV space.<\/p>

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