2. Initial Plans
- 2. Initial Reaction My first thoughts of the type of platform that my game will be made for is a mobile device. This is because at the moment I am thinking of making a row/column slots game, for example like Candy Crush Saga and Tetris and these are much more common on mobile phones rather than consoles or computers. I have more ideas for a game design and all of them are more suitable for mobiles, therefore I think that I will be making a mobile phone game for my project. The target audience has been set for 16-19 year olds and this means I don’t have to make the game too easy to play and I can involve more complicating features, however at the moment I am not sure what these features could be and if I will include these in my final product. I have made an animation already at the start of the year, however this was my first doing so and I wasn’t experienced in making pixel art and I didn’t have a lot of time to produce. However for this project I have more time to make it therefore I will add more detail and I will have more time to reflect and alter my game. i am also more experienced now, so I can try and learn more skills to make my game better. For my last project I made a first person perspective game, so for this project I want to make a side scrolling game, for example games like Sonic. I have used Premiere Pro on a previous project and I think I am experienced in using it enough for it not to be a difficult task and I think I will be able to make it fairly quick and with more detail.
- 3. Mind Map
- 5. Mood Board Analysis Is there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood Looking at my mood board as a whole there is a scary/spooky feel to it due to the feature of zombies. As I have found these images on Google I have not found images perfect to my ideas, therefore the colours will be different to how I want them, however due to game being about zombies I think that I will have the colour green to be a large part of my game. Also the images seem to look very cartoon, meaning they are not supposed to look very realistic, which is what I want for my game, as I am only using pixel art so I won’t be able to make the images look very realistic and because it gives the game a more retro look. How will your mood board influence your final product? I think I will use my mood board as a visual look of most of the features in my game, for example the power-ups/coins on my moodboard will be a feature in my game and I can use the pcitures as an idea of how to present them. I can also do this for other features such as the spikes/obstacles, background features (brains, props to show the location), etc. however I think that I will also change things as I am making my game and add ideas at the same time, therefore I most likely won’t follow my mood board completely as a full template for my game.
- 6. Schedule WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS 1 Case Study, Initial Response, Product Research Create a mind map and mood board to show my ideas for my game and analyse my mood board Research a game and talk about all of its aspects Primary and secondary research for existing product similar to my idea 2 Audience Research, Production Experiments, Proposal, Planning Who my target audience is and how I will appeal to them Practice productions using Photoshop and pixel art Planning exactly what my game will be like and how it will play out and be produced 3 Production Using Photoshop to produce my video game 4 Production Using Photoshop and Premiere Pro to produce my video game 5 Evaluation Talk about possible improvements, what I like about it and what I don’t, difficulty of these tasks and getting feedback from others
- 7. Bibliography 1. anon. (2018). Mind Map. Available: https://bubbl.us/8793327. Last accessed 23rd Feb 2018. 2. anon. (2018). Zombie Vectors, Photos and PSD files. Available: https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/zombie. Last accessed 20th Feb 2018. 3. anon . (2017). Bevouliin Free Games Obstacles - Spikes. Available: https://opengameart.org/content/bevouliin-free-game-obstacle-spikes. Last accessed 20th Feb 2018. 4. anon . (2018). Sonic The Hedgehog Classic on the App Store. Available: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonic-the-hedgehog-classic/id316025912?mt=8. Last accessed 20th Feb 2018. 5. iGameplay1337. (2016). Temple Run 2 - ALL 12 CHARACTERS GAMEPLAY REVIEW. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4gHHDpZymE. Last accessed 20th Feb 2018. 6. anon . (2018). Sonic The Hedgehog . Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog. Last accessed 20th Feb 2018. 7. anon . (2018). Super Mario Bros.. Available: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/NES/Super-Mario-Bros--803853.html. Last accessed 21st Feb 2018. 8. anon . (2018). Super Mario. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario. Last accessed 21st Feb 2018.
Editor's Notes
- #3: Log your initial thoughts regarding the set brief- What could you make? What are you good at? Your opinions? Can be a list of bullet points of reactions- does not have to be full prose. Can be hand written/drawn and scanned in.
- #4: Bubbl.us or hand drawn-scanned using college printers exploring 3 potential ideas
- #5: Collection of images related to your product/inspirational/visually interesting At least 15 needed