BASILISK FLARE

Gamer & Ambient light development

Client
Basilisk Kft.

Time
3 months, 2018

Team
Tom Fekete - Project lead / Industrial & graphic designer
Bálint Szalai - Industrial Designer
György Surek - Design Engineer

Basilisk Flare was born to enhance the gamer user experience by extending your visual peripheries outside the screen by providing you real time game-analysis with the help of RGB lights.

The back light sources are projecting the colors from the screen to the wall, while the front light source acts like a scale which can show different data like health, ammo, or any scalable data.

We also designed the brand materials including the name, logo, brochures and packaging .

Brainstorming & Mind mapping

We started the development by creating a mind map, which helped organise and categorise our ideas. As a next step, we did a stakeholder analysis to understand most interactions around the users.
Light Diffusor Experiments

Before we started developing the design, it was essential to figure out how to diffuse the light. The technology used RGB strips, so the challenge was diffusing the firm LED bulbs into a homogeneous blend of light, not revealing the precise location of each bulb.
Sketch Development

Via paper and digital sketches, many iterations and versions later, we established several concepts that we decided to continue developing in 3D to create prototypes.

After numerous iterations the final design solution were created. It was necessary to keep in mind manufacturing constraints, material costs and business strategy requirements.

CAD DEVELOPMENT

The PCB boards, LED bulbs, and light diffusers goes into the extruded plastic main body, closed at both ends with an injection moulded cap. This construction allows manufacturing various lengths of this product for different screen sizes without investing in new tools, cutting down future costs significantly.

DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING

PROTOTYPE | A

Wide front light stripe, non adjustable.
PROTOTYPE | B

Thin front light stripe + backlight, non adjustable
PROTOTYPE | C

LED reflecting front and back, fully adjustable. Eventually, this version received the most favourable feedback, so we decided to continue with this.

MONITOR or STAND

Flare can be used in two ways. It can be mounted magnetically to the backside of the monitor or attached to its stand and put next to the sides of the monitor.

These options allow flexibility to any home gamer setup as the Flare can always accommodate its environment!.