Today I've been adding the first of my nostalgia triggers. I've gone for a variant on one of the handheld games consoles seen on my Play Expo trip -- the Galaxy Invader 10000, released in 1982.
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| The model is 170 triangles with a single 512x512 UV, featuring diffuse, bump & specular maps. |
| Edit: | I don't usually go back and add content to posts but in this case I thought it worth doing. I've been cogitating ... and I think I've missed a prime opportunity to evaluate audio & mechanical triggers in this context. This type of hand-held game had distinctive sounds and animated graphics, and these add significantly to both the affect and the charm of the object. Therefore I'm going to re-visit the Galaxy Invader model at some point, adding a movie texture showing the game playing a demo cycle, accompanied by appropriate sound effects. I've done sound in the Unity game engine before, and it's very good at doing location-based audio which you hear as you get closer to an object. I haven't, though, done movie textures so this will give me an opportunity to advance my technical competency in this area. |
You can see it here, taking the place of lava lamp in the original Gizmo game:
Next up is a Sony Trinitron showing the home page for Oracle, ITV's original teletext service (replaced in a franchise bidding war in 1993 by the imaginatively-named Teletext service). The TV itself is not intended to be a primary trigger but I'm hoping that Oracle will be, given its relative rarity compared with the BBC's recently retired Ceefax.
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| The TV is 88 tris with a single 512x512 UV, with diffuse, bump & specular maps. The record collection is a single mesh of 48 tris with diffuse & bump map only. |
I've also added some vinyl LPs into the shelving. (If you can identify any of the album covers then you get a prize!) I've deliberately gone for period items that were popular in their day but would no longer receive airplay today, in order to maximise affect. I've done a bit of copyright research and I believe I can get away with these under quasi-Fair Dealing exceptions to the 1988 Act, classed as incidental content.