Paths to Polaris
A narrative personality quiz about finding your guiding light.
Project type: Game Design, Installation Tools: Ren’Py, Adobe Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Canva
Note: The game is built for PC and tablets. The mobile version is currently under development.
Who are you?
There are 5 possible personas based on the Big 5 personality traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability (changed from Neuroticism).
Exhibiting
Paths to Polaris was presented in Solarium X Lunarium 2025 inside a mini-arcade display alongside an eye-catching star projection and complimentary persona stickers!
Exhibiting
Paths to Polaris was presented in Solarium X Lunarium 2025 inside a mini-arcade display alongside an eye-catching star projection and complimentary persona stickers!
Creating the Game
As a fan of narrative personality quizzes like Cosmos Personas and the Pottermore sorting quiz, I’ve always wanted to make my own. I wrote the story for this game based on my initial inspiration of The Aga Kahn’s Light Visionary Perspectives exhibit. It’s built as a visual novel in Ren’Py and features sprites and backgrounds I designed in Adobe Illustrator alongside short animations made in Premiere Pro and Canva.
Creating the Game
As a fan of narrative personality quizzes like Cosmos Personas and the Pottermore sorting quiz, I’ve always wanted to make my own. I wrote the story for this game based on my initial inspiration of The Aga Kahn’s Light Visionary Perspectives exhibit. It’s built as a visual novel in Ren’Py and features sprites and backgrounds I designed in Adobe Illustrator alongside short animations made in Premiere Pro and Canva.
Creating the Display
To add some extra pizzazz to my piece for the gallery context I made a mini-arcade case out of cardboard and paper mache, printed off my persona designs as vinyl stickers, and created a star signpost by gluing projection material between two dog windows.
Creating the Display
To add some extra pizzazz to my piece for the gallery context I made a mini-arcade case out of cardboard and paper mache, printed off my persona designs as vinyl stickers, and created a star signpost by gluing projection material between two dog windows.