Games Design

Showing my progress along the way of university.

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The wish.

Dissertation 1.

This is a games document to my latest game I will be making, this game is called the wish. I will be making this game in a program called twine, I enjoy working in twine as this is a program I have used in my time outside of university and I find it to be something I am passionate about doing, this also helps because I will be able to show off my concept art, and story telling skills.

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Write up.

When we finished our games jam, I decided to make a write up of what role I took in the team. (This wasn’t needed for university, I just like to see what I can improve on later when looking back on projects).

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Loading screen.

Here is both the initial design and final design of the loading screen I did for our games jam game. We originally wanted to add the wood to the corner to tie in the main Home Screen with the loading screen but we decided that we needed to add more information about how to play our game without being confused as you only use one button but in different ways.

We decided to give the player a small hint to use the portals in our game rather than avoiding them, I felt the red writing helped it show the player what they needed to do.

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Main title page.

Here is the finished main title page I had finished in photoshop. We wanted to go with more of a ‘bendy and the ink machine’ feel to our style of game, so words are wrote by hand and others with dripping effects.

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Loading screen.

This is the design I came up with for our games jam ‘one button’ game. This is an initial sketch of how I want it to look before I finalise it in photoshop.

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Start of 2021 ‘one button’ Games Jam.

This is the the start of our group games jam and the first time back in the studio after lockdown.

I will be doing concept art for our game, here are some of my initial designs.

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Jul 21, 2020 - Explore Carla Angel's board "city game ideas" on Pinterest.

This is all my inspiration for my level design to see how it would fit.

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This is my town level block out in full. You can see where the player will need to start and end in a liner path so the player does not have to retrace and feel they are going back on themselves throughout the level.

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This is the end of my level where the player will then complete their journey and be able to escape the level. The pier is blocked off earlier in the game so the player has to find another way to escape and get to the boat.

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This is the street part of the level where the player must complete a jumping puzzle to get to the next part on their mission. you will see the player has a moment to catch their breath from the enemy so they can figure out the puzzle to carry on.

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through the gate you can see where the player will end up next, showing a much tighter part of the town where buildings align the main street. This is where the player will first encounter their enemy.

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This is the main start of my level where you can see different sized buildings and a well, which comes in handy during game play. You can also see the wall the player must get past and the gate they will get through.

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My very first initial ideas and sketches on how and what my level would be. I went back and forth on this page to see what will fit and what would make sense to go into my level

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This is my spider diagram to show my ideas, I had all different types of ideas to see whether I should make it a town or city, to see what enemies I should put in and puzzles, please help me narrow down my idea pool to decide what my final level look like

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Initial paper plan idea of my game concept - this is where I planned out some ideas that would fit well into my game level, and I jotted down some notes that would help me understand what the player would feel, and what the player would do

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My first idea was for my hammer girl to pick up her hammer underneath this tree I had, but in the end I made it collectible crystals all around the tree instead 

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This is an image of my finished town I added mountains and hills later on to make the environment not be just a flat plane