Exile From Morewood was an interactive Dungeons & Dragons project created for AEPi’s booth at Carnegie Mellon University for Spring Carnival 2016. Players can interactively create a character using their school ID card or custom-printed PVC plastic “DragonSlayer” cards, and then battle monsters with solo or cooperative turn-based combat. Players can view their progress and edit character details online at ExileFromMorewood.com

This installation was a large-scale collaboration among brothers of my fraternity and the greater Carnegie Mellon community. I was responsible for all things digital — visual design, UX, frontend software architecture, building, installing, and networking the Raspberry Pi-based IoT fleet.

the finished project in action

ExileFromMorewood.com

kiosk greeting screen

prompting user to tap their ID card

creating a new character

choosing a race

dice animate to simulate rolling

newly created character with unique player number

kiosk offboarding instructions

experienced players can tap a DragonSlayer card (custom-printed PVC plastic card) to upgrade their account

player choosing an attack to battle a Hill Giant

two players attacking a Hill Giant in turn-based cooperative multiplayer combat