Welcome to Street Smart Detroit
This site is dedicated to the development of a "serious game" about homelessness. The concept for the game is gameplay that would raise awareness of homelessness issues. In the medium of a game, the player would see the issues of homelessness through the eyes of the homeless. The game would include some facts about homelessness with the goal of educating the player, but would primarily focus on changing attitudes - or in the words of one advocate - make people see the homeless as human.
Posted September 9th, 2008 by bradjensen68
Source images
These are pictures of objects that we have yet to convert
Posted September 9th, 2008 by bradjensen68
Concept art
Stuff that we have done that hasn't (yet) made it into the game...
Posted September 9th, 2008 by bradjensen68
Screen Shots
Screen shots of the game in its current state...
Posted February 29th, 2008 by rich
Intro Cut Scene - sets the stage for the game.
An Intro cut scene was generated by Brad, which sets the stage for the game using the Antics 3D video animation / recording software.
You can view it at YouTube here.
Posted December 27th, 2007 by rich
Latest Alpha Release 3.1 - it is now in usability testing - playable demo!
Well we have finished our Demo and so far it is looking good!
We have a complete level for the player to work through, get introduced to the story, make it through a complete day. The player finds out that there is a pretty big world out there to be explored. There are about 3 minigames as part of the demo. There is quite a bit of tweaking still needed to be at a point I would feel confortable in releasing as a general downloadable demo, but overall things are looking good.
The Low Poly Coop volunteers!
Street Smart Detroit now has a project on the Low Poly Coop's site. Take a look at http://www.lowpolycoop.com/forum/ and follow the link to Street Smart Detroit. Follow the progress as volunteer modellers work on open source models for the game. Thanks Scott for letting us post there!
Posted November 1st, 2007 by rich
Lots of action has been going on!
Our first Release for internal testing has passed and it looked good so far, unfortunately not all our goals were met or a distributable (to the dev team) code base for some initial testing.
Help Wanted
Now accepting applications and Donations of IP to support Street Smart Detroit
So you want to work on a team making a game for a worthy cause?
Then you have come to the right location. We are looking for people to help out and support us.
All positions are currently non-paid positions and the following are our open positions:
Really Really Good Things are Happening!
Our "Panhandling for IP" campaign has shown its first success! Alan James of Really Really Good Things Studios has agreed to let up use his work in Street Smart Detroit! We are really excited about this because Alan also does some fantastic work. So go to his site at http://www.reallyreallygoodthings.com/ and check it out.