Festival Bingo Plus

An interactive experience that help guests explore all the BVW projects during the 2023 ETC Festival.

Role: Producer/ Designer/ Artist

The ETC Festival is an invitation-only event hosted at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) where the projects, films, games and interactive experiences created by the student teams throughout the ETC are showcased in a carnival-like atmosphere.

We made Festival Bingo last year and received positive feedbacks for the experience. In 2023, we developed Festival Bingo Plus based on the lessons we learned from last year and tried to solve some problems that ETC festival was facing.

Festival Bingo is an interactive experience that enhances ETC festival experience, guests enter the experience as the human guest who is invited to ETC spaceship by ETCers. Guests can use guest system to navigate through the building and gat the real-time traffic information for each room. By scanning the given ID card at each world they can gain related decorations to build their own profile in the guest system.

Experience Name: Festival Bingo Plus

Set: Entertainment Technology Center

Demographics: Guests of ETC festival

Length: 2 Hours

Development Time: 5 Weeks

Team Member：

Producer/ Designer/ Artist - Randi Ouyang

UI/UX Designer - Felicia Li

Backend Programmer - Patrick Cheng

- Jerry Xie

- Jiajian Zhang

Frontend Programmer - Fanya Li

- Ryan Yuan

What are their needs

What can we do

  • Reduce the pressure caused by long queues at a few worlds for guests

  • Give more space to students to showcase their work

  • Give guests something to bring back as souvenir

How we do it

  • Reduce the pressure caused by long queues at a few worlds for guests

Traffic in map

  1. Less effort for students in system maintaining

  2. Combining with navigation to help guests make their visiting plan

  3. Reduce the extra physical device requirement

System Design

Based on Phidget RFID reader + RFID card

  • Give more space to students to showcase their work

Library

  1. Contains all worlds, even worlds don’t make it to festival.

  2. Including the most important information - team member, platform and link to more details

  3. Library can be viewed even after the festival finished

  • Give guests something to bring back as souvenir

Personal Journal

  1. Help guest record their journey within the whole festival. 

  2. Make it digital which allows more customization with less cost.

How guests go through

Make It Juicy

Beyond solving the problems for festival, we want to make the experience itself more engaging and immersive. Here we find the chance to introduce narrative design into our space. We designed the story based on the user journey and combined the history of ETC festival development.

In our story, guests are invited into ETC spaceship to test the worlds built by ETCers and produce CTE(Creative Technology Energy) for ETCers as return. Guests will be given access to their own guest system during festival to support their festival experience.

To tell the story clearly and increase guests’ interest, we made the intro animation and implemented it into our website. This animation also be played on screens sit on all floors during festival to get guests’ attention.

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