My final project was inspired by the generative landscape project, with the idea of a car driving down a city. However this car will be “driven” by a drunk driver, shown not only by it’s sporadic driving pattern, but the fact that it will hit and kill a person that is crashes into. A person will be crossing the street and the car will hit it, a brief “crash” will appear on screen, causing the person to disappear and a grave appearing on the bottom of the screen. The grave will display the name and age of an actual drunk driving victim. However, on the top of the screen, there will be a description of that person by someone who knew them. After the screen is filled with graves, the text box will display drunk driving facts and statistics. These statistics and information about the victims were found on various news articles and websites, as well as the website Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The setting of the landscape represents a city. The black, white, and gray colors used(except for in the crash), and the overall simplicity of the visuals is used to draw more focus on the text that shows up on the screen.

Sketches:

Link: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/638893

Screenshots:

  

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