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GEMINI

Unreal Engine

2023

Sylvia & Alison

The ride is called Gemni, meaning the self and the self in the mirror.

The ride wishes to delve into the issue of appearance anxiety and point out what price may come in pursuit of mere appearance through outwardly reflect their inner terrors.

Unreal Engine Video

Ride Video (Max)

Ride Mechanics & Vehicles

The ride mechanics is set up, fullfill and exceed.

This is a flying theater ride experience.

The simulation flying vehicle is made with three circles since we wanna create an effect that the audience will not be able to see other people during the experience and feel immersive. And we also think these structures will create a high-tech feeling which looks different from the simulation chair nowadays.

2. Station & Queue Design

^{The audience will get into the queue line and see a robot explaining the Emma's background information, then the audience will be led to the simulation chair to experience the ride after the ride is finished, doctor Biohm will be at the exit to bring the audience to leave.}

3. Storyboards

^{This ride consists of 5 levels within 2 worlds.

At the outset, we stand with Emma in her dim bathroom, watching her inspect herself through the mirror and feeling her frustration. Then this real world that surrounded her shattered, bringing her into an underworld where her desires and fears were materialized.

As we fall into this underworld, we land in the middle of a solitary altar located on top of a broad cliff. When the ritual was finished and all the monsters started their hunt, we climb and dive in the valley, coming to the surface of a river, where we are forced to confront insults and humiliation, before being pushed down to a second sub level.

In the jungle, we wander along unbeaten paths and run into a group of masked people. After turning down their invitation and angering them, we run through the jungle and fall yet again into another level, where we are constantly watched and chased by their stares, before finally falling back into the modern world.}

4. Interaction
^{During our ride, through the movement of the chair and effects such as wind and water, the rider will be able to experience this adventure as if they are actually flying alongside Emma, seeing what she sees, hearing what she hears, and being her.}

5. Main Characters

The Altar

^{the monsters that surround the altar and encounter in the journey are imprints of various emotions: desire, jealousy, anger, fear... As the ritual enhances our will to achieve our ends, so do our emotions strengthen, so much so that we can no longer keep them at bay.}

Blaming Faces

^{As outer environment shapes us to a great degree, other people's judgements likewise stalk us ceaselessly, and is the only thing that can pierce through the mind, that is the hardest to get rid of.}

Melting Face

^{Beauty comes with a price, and sometimes it means taking itself away. As we grow endlessly fixated on our appearance, so grows our fear of it being gone.}

Fish

^{A fish floating in a jungle might be one of the last things you'd find logical. But so is constantly running away in face of obstacles.}

Jungle Dance

^{These people are what they want to be, because they have yet a clear identity. You want to join them, but you are also afraid of losing your identity, even if you're not satisfied with it, you fear losing it more.}

6. Max Code