User Personas

List of User Personas

Persona 1: Fong Kheng Wai (25 years)





Characteristics
  • Work as a Visual Effect Artist, Compositor & 3D Generalist, Lecturer from Dasein Academy of Art. 
  • He is impatient with games that are too draggy.
  • He has been playing video games since he was 6 years old.
  • Interested in new technology.
  • He owns a PC and HTC Vive.
  • Has a Facebook account.


Goals, Needs, and Impediments
  • To have more multiplayer games in VR
  • He would like to see more innovative VR games with rich content and memorable storytelling instead of action games.
  • Kheng Wai is used to playing with his VR games in his room, which is not spacious enough. VR does not have enough games yet in the market yet.


My Proposed Game
  • He is interested as he is looking for something different for his VR gameplay.
  • He loves a good laugh if there's a genre that falls into the comedy category of gameplay.
  • Might be a bit too short? If it's a demo then it should suffice.





Persona 2: Cheng Weng Kee (26 years)




Characteristics
  • Work as a 3D animator, actor, voice actor and emcee. 
  • Interested in games that comes with a riveting story and dislike competitive games
  • He started playing video game (Super Mario) when he was 4 years old.
  • Interested in how far the developer will push the limits of the video games
  • He recently bought a HTC Vive, but owns a Playstation 2 and PC.



Goals, Needs, and Impediments
  • Hope that the VR technology able to develop into something more advance, but it had to become more commodity first.
  • He is more pro action, prefer action games with good storytelling. Immersive aspect
  • Navigation in the VR are breaking his immersion, some causes motion sickness.


My Proposed Game
  • Loving the absurd humor that the game provides
  • Expect the unexpected is what keep the game fresh as there is the element of solving crime and also a layer of humor to top it off.
  • The whole crime scene level might be straight forward, but the richness lies in the context of how the dialogue are being delivered.








Persona 3: Wendy (29 years)





Characteristics
  • Work as a software engineer at Exact. 
  • Playing games since 8 year old
  • Attracted to compelling story as well as gorgeous visual of a game. Character has to be very well written.
  • Interested in the technical side of VR and the immersion of it.
  • She own a google carboard VR nor any consoles, but would normally stream video games on Youtube.



Goals, Needs, and Impediments
  • Hope that the VR technology able to develop into something more advance, but it had to become more commodity first.
  • VR used as educational because it encouraged user to learn. Prefers
  • VR games for now are just a taste of what it can be, but never had any full-fledged game.



My Proposed Game
  • The humor are very "Rick & Morty" according to her, which is a plus.
  • It's not something that she'd seen in the game market that often, but she does not own a VR gaming devices.
  • Quite refreshing but thought that the gameplay might be a little bit too short.


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