Three Scenarios

Here are our three scenarios:

Scenario 1: Lights Out!

Shelly is meeting her friend Bobby at his apartment complex; North Avenue South. This is not something that is entirely easy for Shelly to accomplish, as Georgia Tech has put somewhere between five and ten security check points between the outside of North Avenue and Bobby's apartment. Upon arriving to the complex another Georgia Tech student buzzes her into the front gate. Now that Shelly has made it to the courtyard she can find no one to let her in to North Avenue south. She calls Bobby up and he tells her he is going to take a shower and get dressed before he comes out to see her. He abruptly hangs up and a scowl immediately pops on to Shelly's face. She doesn't want to be waiting in the North Avenue courtyard for twenty minutes while Bobby gets ready. This is ridiculous. All of a sudden she remembers the game that she downloaded onto her iPhone earlier that day: Lights Out! This wasn't just any replication of lights out though, this is an augmented reality port of the Lights Out! game. Shelly opens the application and it prompts her to find the marker on the North Avenue East building. Confused, Shelly looks over towards the building to see a large geometric pattern painted on to the center of the building's wall. She raises her camera so that the view captures all of the building and the program goes to work. It first determines how far away Shelly is from the building and then determines which room lights are on and off. Upon compiling all of this information, the game begins and Shelly happily taps away at her iPhone screen, turning lights on and off in both succession and frustration. North Avenue East has a lot of windows, and so the game is taking a while. After nearly fifteen minutes, Shelly manages to get all of the lights except three in the bottom right corner to turn off. She taps the middle of those three and all of them turn off. The game excitedly exclaims that she has won! Shelly jumps for joy just as Bobby makes his way out of the North Avenue South doors. Shelly says her thanks for the game existing, as that would have been a terribly boring fifteen minutes. She and Bobby walk off into the sunset, hand in hand.

Scenario 2: King Kong Game

Jessie is supposed to go over to her friend Jennifer’s apartment at North Avenue Apartments. After getting off the bus, while waiting for Jennifer, she manages to sneak through the front gate. While waiting in front of North Avenue East, she pulls out her iPhone and directs it towards North Avenue South. She opens the Catch King Kong application, and on the screen, King Kong appears hanging from the roof ledge. He begins to scale the walls of the apartment, jumping from window to window. Jessie tries to follow his path with her phone screen. Alas, he is too fast for her, and he jumps up towards the roof. A noise beeps as a counter counts down to 5. Frantically, Jessie tries to search for him through her phone screen, but she has run out of time. King Kong escaped her grasp. As she prepares to play another round, selecting Frogger, Jennifer opens the door to let her in. Next time…

Scenario 3: Choose Your Own Destruction

Robbie is a 3rd year Architect student at Georgia Tech. He just found out that he failed his Physics test and his RA has ordered a mandatory meeting about a noise problem he isn’t part of. In short, he’s had a really awful day and is in a terrible mood. He sees a bulletin posted by North Avenue, where he lives, which talks about a new stress-relieving game for the apartments. He goes to the app store on his iPhone and downloads the application. He points it to the North Ave East building he lives in and proceeds to destroy his RA’s room, then the rest of the building. He chuckles and takes a picture to post on Facebook, then walks up to the meeting slightly relieved.