The Wall
Since the major challenge of the game is to memorize where the lasers are located while heading towards the switch, I wanted to ensure that when the tile is not pressed, there were absolutely no visual marking indicating where the switch may be, lest someone was able to cheat and could see where the switch was without having to toggle the tile.
To that end, I designed the wall to have the switches stuck to a back wall with a piece of black cloth that could hover overtop, but not touch the switches. The cloth had to be close enough for the light from the switches to penetrate.
I wanted to use black cloth so dirt won't show after numerous amount of guests came in to play the game. This is what it looks like when the lasers are on:
I was concerned that with the choice of black cloth, the projection I wanted won't show. Originally, I had planned to use a photo of a French interior to show the guest the kind of room they were in when things were "lit up". Projecting the photo onto the black cloth did not work. The projector was not bright enough to show the photo clearly. I had seen that white had worked quite well with the black background, so I decided to use white vectors to create the illusion of the inside of a museum.
I also wanted to make sure that the light from the buttons was distinct from, but wouldn't ruin the projected vectors. Using an Arduino, I decided on using red lights for the switches, and this turned out to be distinct enough from the museum vectors without overpowering them, which is what we were looking for. Making this looks like sketch model helped me determine how to practically move forward with this idea should our team wanted to move foward with The Acrobat storyboard.