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Student Project 'Night Hunter'

SOPHIE CLYDE: Hi. I'm Sophie. PABLO VILLALOBOS: I'm Pablo. SOPHIE CLYDE: And this is our project, Night Hunter. So our early concept for this game was something like an invisible maze that you could only hear. So we had the idea of trying to-- the original idea came from the idea of superheroes who have enhanced senses. Since this was to be an audio-only game, we thought, how can we enhance your hearing? We thought, what if you could hear the things that you can't see? So the idea was that you would try to move through a maze. You would hear what-- you would use something like sonar to try to-- you'd send out a wave. It would make a sound. You could tell where it was in space and avoid it. That's pretty hard, as it turns out. One of the things we wanted to explore by making this game was how good at people-- or how good are people at actually figuring out where that invisible thing is. It turns out the answer is not very good. If you're trying to a...