Faculty of Arts & Science

Digital Futures

Mark Herod

ZION

ZION is meant to be an exploration on the human experience of light ZION is meant to show the common themes the light represents as a whole and the feelings it causes the user to feel. Floating balls of golden lights are scattered around the scene, some hidden and some already floating. The hidden lights are invisible at first and are only revealed when the player walks through invisible triggers. The light lights up a small area as long as the viewer stays within the area of the trigger, but the viewer is not aware of this. The orbs of lights float like objects we must collect but why do we feel need to do that?

“The hidden lights are invisible at first and are only revealed when the player walks through invisible triggers. The light lights up a small area as long as the viewer stays within the area of the trigger, but the viewer is not aware of this. The orbs of lights float like objects we must collect but why do we feel need to do that? This project has no message that it is trying to tell you but rather a message that you end up finding. Through the portal you will find yourself in a church like area. The goal here is to light through a religious lens, and how we associate light with purity and divinity.”