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A Q&A with BoldMove Nation’s managing director Anja D’Hondt
How did you create a 360° environment that blends digital and phygital worlds? Based on the characters that were imagined years ago, we developed multiple 360° environments: two immersive ‘worlds’ around which the action revolves. We started by designing a complete world around the Mushies: we chose to create a hill surrounded by four adjacent 'places': a forest, a garbage dump, an industrial zone, and a city. This environment is fluid and all parts are tying up nicely with the previous and the next one. Therefore, the little Mushies are frantically running along the slopes of the hill and ultimately will find themselves back where they started. For our little ‘funghy’ friends, everyday life feels like groundhog day: starting again fresh with a slightly changing ending. The reason why we have decided to shape the scenes as a ‘world’ rather than a series of separate scenes is to make the story easy to understand for a broad audience. Moreover, not only the scenes are circling alongside the hill, but also the ‘targets’ and vehicles. This gives the ride a very profound coherence and increases repeat playability.
How does the story go and why 'freeze' the Mushies?
The arrival of a bulldozer in the Mushies’ forest, usually so calm and peaceful, is the trigger for this invasion. The Mushies are forced to leave their forest, however, they only find hostile territories, which results in a rapidly growing population and the invasion becomes inevitable. Unless... The players' mission is to stop them and cool them down by shooting ice cubes. To do this, they will follow them into a forest, a junkyard, an industrial zone and finally the city, in between reloading their stock of cubes. To complicate the fate of the ‘funghy’ friends even more, the passage through the junkyard is accompanied by an exposure to strange and toxic substances, mutating some into green creatures… less attractive and even more stupid.
Intelligence (AI) for 'dumb' characters? It is said that the simplest things are the most difficult to do: to provide certain Mushies with a bottomless stupidity, we had to rely on sophisticated algorithms to make the reaction varied as well as unexpected. We have therefore applied Artificial Intelligence technology: the reaction of a Mushie can change based on certain instances (presence of the Mushies, intensity of the action and so on), so the Mushie can act differently and surprise even the most
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accustomed player. This is a clear example of the next generation gaming capabilities where the ride itself becomes what we could qualify as being ‘alive’: nothing happens exactly the way it’s expected to - another clever way to boost repeatability!
What is Smash & Reload? Smash & Reload is a family of media-based interactive dark rides, combining a fun and easy gameplay with a smart ride system on a compact footprint. It can stand alone or be integrated in a themed park area, and perfectly combines with other attractions. This next-generation high-energy dark ride is future-proof due to its advanced and proven technology with upgradeable media content. The easy gameplay ensures an interactive all-family experience with a choice of different IPs and theming, up to a fully customisable format. With its amazing visitor capacity Smash & Reload offers the best price to throughput ratio across the industry with high repeatability, and weather-proof for all-year round operations. The centralised projection system keeps the entire attraction compact and maintenance savvy, without compromising on fun.
Who is Triotech? Triotech is the creator of award winning immersive and interactive media-based attractions for the entertainment market. With more than 425 installations in over 65 countries across all continents, over 135 million guests have lived a Triotech experience over the last decade. Triotech
creates attractions such as Interactive Dark Rides and theatres, 4D Theatres, VR attractions, Flying Theatres, Walkthroughs and Dark Coasters. Triotech offers integrated turnkey solutions for digital attractions including content developed in its own studios in Montreal, Canada and in Rennes, France. Founded in 1999, Triotech is a privately held company with over 200 employees deployed in Canada, Europe, the USA, and Asia.
Who is BoldMove Nation? Together with a strong network of expert partners, BoldMove Nation creates Happy Worlds for leisure, tourist and retail venues. Media-based attractions are based on proven technologies and fun gameplay around compelling stories for immersive visitor experiences. With the customer interest at heart, the BoldMove Nation team offers turnkey creative and experience design services from master planning to implementation, with a broad choice of IPs and theming. Products include Smash & Reload media dark rides with TooMush or custom theming, WaterSlider VR and AR Walkthroughs like Raptor Expedition. Established in 2021, the team is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
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