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Foley sounds are honestly one of the coolest parts of game design because they make the whole world feel alive without you even noticing it. It’s basically when sound designers record everyday objects, like crunching leaves, metal clanking, clothes rustling, or footsteps, and use them to match the actions happening in the game. For a player, it makes everything feel way more real and immersive, even in super stylised games. When you hear the right sound at the right moment, it boosts the atmosphere massively

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These are pages 8-15 of my portfolio, these are mainly focused on character designs and poster development with some more work sheets and my evaluations, compared to the first seven which was mainly research and development. The first slide is my last work sheet and some extra drawings I had on another sheet but there i go over it in more detail, the next two is my character designing, showing the process of colouring the outlines. The next two are the development of the poster, from outline to colouring. The next two are the evaluation sheets, first is all about the audience and the ratings, and how the game fits into those ratings. The evaluation goes over the process and my thoughts on how well I did and how this game was influenced by certain IPs.

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These are the first seven pages of my portfolio, mainly covering the research and scrapbook development pages, along with a page on the poster design at the end. In the first slide I go over the research I did and what my target audience is and how I took some ideas from the starter project which was to design a chess set based around the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Then is the page all about that, my idea was to have people vs food on a distorted bard due to hunger. I also designed a roll up travel board with a piece storage compartment at the top. Then I go over my game competition from over summer and some character sheets for the characters for my FMP. The next two pages are for the other three work sheets I filled in in my scrapbook, they have character designs, poses, info, title drafts, and concept art. The next slide is my pitch sheet from our pressure test and the final slide is the draft poster in pencil and ink.

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This is my updated version of my seed packet cover, I did this on a new page in my scrapbook, and I made quite a few changes, I made the title much bigger and added some of the sticker designs next to it instead of having the 'stickers included' stamp, I made Ferris and the plant much bigger and more prominent, and I moved around the pieces at the bottom, having the 'sustain.co' stamp and the bar codes on the opposite sides. I then inked it and I'll hopefully print this out and stick it onto an envelope to have as another physical freebie, along with my planters.

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Today I had some extra time so I ended up doing some more character poses for my FMP character Finn, I drew these exact poses last year but I wanted to try and draw them again but in better detail and with better proportions, I think that these look pretty good and the fighting pose is a huge improvement, the eating one too, I do think that I could have done better with the lantern but it works. I also re-drew his fish hook and compass. I will also try and Dra him fighting and sleeping and some small facial expressions around the page, maybe also some small objects like a telescope and a dagger.

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Health bars in video games do more than show a player’s remaining life, they communicate tone, urgency, and the overall identity of the world. For an apocalypse-style game, I could design health bars that feel integrated into the setting rather than appearing as clean, detached UI elements. Instead of a traditional solid bar, it could be something worn-down or improvised, a cracked gauge, a flickering digital readout, or a hand-scribbled indicator on a piece of metal or fabric. I could also tie the health display into the environment or the character’s gear, perhaps it’s part of a damaged visor HUD, or a salvaged device the characters monitor. Subtle animations like glitches, leaks, or fading colours can reinforce the sense of decay and scarcity.

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Today my teacher suggested that as another freebie for my game could be some seed planter sticks with a character or design on the end of it. I chose to have Ferris the racoon be on the end of it since he's basically the mascot for the game and his design is very simple. I drew a sketch of his face and then emailed the picture to myself, then we went into the workshop and put the sketch into illustrator, after designing the stick with the ears and adding the 'Name:' we left the cutter for a minute and ended up with the two sticks you see above. Then I was just trying to fill up the rest of the scrapbook page so I added what the in-game character bio page would look like, the PEGI rating, the plant scrapbook, I added the seed planter outline by tracing around it and then had the idea to design each character's ability icons, like in Brawl Stars or Apex Legends. I did three for each, a small ability that either does damage or heals in Fogger's case, a bigger ability that fits the character, like how Dottie has a speed ability due to her roller skates. Fogger lets out a huge puddle of his healing juice that the enemies will slip on, so on. And the third is their ultimate ability, for Scrap-Jack he releases Ferris and he goes around scratching the enemies, Monique uses her wrist watch to call in a huge fish that slams into the enemies.

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These are some of my scrapbook pages where I've glued in my pitch sheet from our pressure test and my inked version of my poster sketch, underneath the inked version I designed some health bars for my characters. Starting with Scrap-Jack and Ferris, I gave them a regular looking health bar with a few cracks in it and some rubbish on top, like apple cores, a banana and a can, also their icon is the two of them. For Fogger I made his health bar his gun which I'm really proud I thought of, There is a part on his gun which I designed that you can see the gas through and all I did was stretch that, and moved the add ons and the end of the gun. I also game him some bubbles at the end, Maybe a feature i the game could be that when he loses damage, more bubble come out, as if he's emptying the gun. Next was Monique, I made her's water with some fish in it and her fishing rod above with the line going down past the bar. For Dottie's I did struggle a bit, I thought if having her's be the slingshot with the elastic stretched out but I ended up choosing to have her striped sock be stretched over the bar and when she loses health, the sock goes down the bar. For Albert's I gave him a rectangular bar and just added some moss and mushrooms to the top, This one is relatively simple but I quite like it.

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These are some small sketches I drew in my scrapbook today, The top one is a design for the arcade machine which players can use to play mini games like noughts and crosses, space invaders and spot the difference to earn upgrades and seeds. The next sketch is for a rule sheet that goes over the main synopsis for the game and shows some rough gameplay, mini games, upgrades and seeds. My teacher had the idea that some freebies for the physical copy of the game could be a pack of seeds with a customised design and some stickers, I designed the seed pack with a drawing of Ferris using a watering can, some instructions, a 'stickers included' stamp and the title 'Re-Seed Run'. The stickers are Ferris with his thumbs up, the convenient store mascot, the mini game arcade machine, the seeds with 'Re-grow' bellow, Scrap-Jack with the phrase 'That's trash' bellow, the seed containment machine and Fogger with his healing gun, I actually really like these.

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These are some designs for the sign which I was going to put in between the windows of the building to the side of my poster. I wanted to have a fallout vibe for it so I designed a very cartoon-y mascot with a circular face and I experimented with the accessories to give him, I ended up just giving him a top hat. Also the name 'The Conveniencing' is a reference to the Gravity Falls episode 'The Inconveniencing'.

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Today in class we started off by filling in a Christmas card which had a customised by a student who won a contest. I drew a Christmas. tree with a key board guitar and sunglasses with a singing present but I wanted something in the blank space next to them and above, so I added a drunk elf hanging from some Christmas lights. then I added some snowflakes all around them and added Santa's sleigh at the top.

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Next I started by adding the window outlines and the brick showing through on the outside. Then I coloured in the walls, bricks and the windows, for the bricks I tried to add some lines going up but at this angle, it looked really weird so i then decided to get rid of them and keep it as long planks instead. I also tried to add a cracked window but again, it looked too out of place. Once I added the shadows to the window I was basically done except for the background. I wanted to draw one but I was starting to run out of time and chose to just search Pinterest for 'orange sunset' and ended up using the one you see above, I think I could have done better with this poster, compared to my FMP and my Journey to the centre of the earth comic page and cover, I think it's one of my worst outcomes, but I still really like it, I think characters look really cool and the poses are nice but I think the main problem is the colours, on my last projects I have mainly green colour pallets either in forests and fauna ridden caves. Maybe if Dottie's shirt and socks weren't so colourful and Monique's jeans were a bit paler it would all blend together better.

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I ended the characters by Colouring Albert, I ended up just copy merging the colours from the other file and putting them behind the outline. Then I roughly copied the colours and tried to put them in the right places. I think I would have liked to have made his colours a bit lighter so that he isn't so eye catching. Then I added some dust particles in the air since it was looking a bit empty in places, like the top of the poster. Then I finished for the day by doing the outline of the building and the signs on the side.

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Ive now moved onto colouring the characters, starting with Scrap-Jack, Then Ferris. Once I started with Fogger at the bottom i realised that he was a little lacking in detail, I tried to give him some more shading and highlights than in the previous design but I didn't want to cover him in extra colours, taking away from his base colours. Once I added the green gas on his back I think it helped make him look more interesting. Then I moved onto colouring Monique, this was by far the easiest since she's very small compared to the others and she has a very plain colour pallet, unlike Dottie who was next, unfortunately I forgot to take any screenshots of the process for her but she was very difficult due to all the colours and different shades, especially for the multicoloured socks and striped shirt, which I had to add shadows and highlights to.

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This is the next part of the poster design where I start with colouring the arrow sign, I used a dull grey combination for the 'welcome' and 'Population'. Then I used a dark red for the sign itself and added some brown rust. Then I added the 'Seed Run' title, I think it looks okay, but like I said previously, I think it would look better if I had made the sign bigger. Once I had colouring in the title I did the outline for the metal posts under the road sign, then coloured it a dark grey. I also added some rust to the 'Seed Run' sign. Then I started to colour the characters, beginning with Scrap-Jack. This was relatively easy since I already know what the colours are.

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Today I started on my game advertisement poster outline. Starting with the character Dottie, leaning against the side, I wanted to start with her because in the sketch for this poster, I thought that her placement looked a bit strange, so I wanted to try and fix it, I ended up moving her down slightly and made her ever so slightly smaller, It looked a bit like she was hovering in the last attempt and I think this was a big improvement. Then I started adding the other characters, Fogger and Ferris were next but once I started on the outline for the arrow sign I remembered that I wanted to have only the characters have black outlines since I did that with my comic book page for the last project and I really liked the outcome. I then had to change the outline from black to a dark pale red but luckily most of the outline was done with lines and I could just change the colour. Then I went back to the character outlines and got Scrap-Jack done, I also had to adjust his outline slightly and move his leg, I wanted to have his leg be over the line on the E of the sign, and as I was using the sketch to trace the outline, I couldn't find a way to have his leg be covering it without his leg looking strange, so I just tried to have it go across the middle and have the ends of the three dashes showing so that it was clear it was an E. Then I started on the main sign where the title will be and in hindsight I wish I made this slightly bigger so that the title is a bit more eye catching but it works well enough. And finally, I ended by adding Albert and Monique. Starting with Albert, I also had to do some adjustments to his outline by having his finished design screenshot next to him and I used that as reference to make his outline more accurate. I ended up just using the outline for his head from the other file by copying and pasting. And for Monique, I drew her pretty well on my sketch so tracing her was very simple., I did end up tracing her head from the other file though.

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This is the process for colouring my character Monique for my Video Game 'Seed Run' advertisement. She was relatively easy to colour since compared to characters like Scrap-Jack who I had to figure out what each piece of rubbish would be coloured and Albert who I was trying to place all the different colours of rust and dirt on without making one section look too brown or grey. All I had to do for her was find the right colour blue and yellow and add the details like hair and the gadgets on her arms. I've included the picture of all the characters finished at the bottom and I do like these but I much prefer my last group of characters, and even my last character 'Damion'. I think that may be due to the fact that I was imagining those characters for around two years without designs and finally seeing them completed was great, so I may be a bit biased. I do quite like how Monique looks, I only wished that I drew her in a more dynamic pose, like Dottie or Albert.