#assignment 2 progress

[chengyangli]

Assignment 2 - Progress

It's time for the second assignment! I chose 'Hungry Chameleon' as my target without a doubt. In order to enrich the game content, I added different targets to hunt and unknown targets to be unlocked. I provided rules for the color change mechanism, changing the originally thought passive color change to a color change mechanism that is actively triggered by the player, and limiting it to the character's state. I also added a gold coin system to facilitate the player's subsequent upgrade of basic abilities (or the purchase of different skins?) At the same time, I considered adding attack events or hostile creatures to increase the difficulty of the game.

[avocoadosworld]

Assignment 2 Progress

Title

Finding a font was a big decision for me. I wanted to find something 'authoritative' and 'imposing' to sort of let the user know the "Captain Zenith" was a revered captain. Below are some examples of fonts that I was playing with

I think I settled on a font called "Futura Display" for the name and then having 'Commits a war crime' in a different font, almost as a sub-title. This font was called "Mokoto Glitch 1".

Inspiration

I always loved the imagery of Star Wars: A New Hopes intro with the big star destroyer flying over the camera with the planet in the background (image below). I would love to use this as inspiration and draw from it if I can. In fact, you can see in the first example of fonts that I did manage to find a planet background like this.

(George Lucas, 1977, 2:15)

I would also love to use a futuristic interface style, to signify that it is a scifi game

References

Lucas, G. (Director). (1977). Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. [Film]. LucasFilm

[dogedouge]

Assignment 2 Progress

Hollow Knight once won more $50,000 in crowdfunding for them through their wonderful publicity. From this incident, I saw the importance of game promotion for a game.

So I think this assignment is very pedagogical for us, all we need to do is to accurately introduce my game concept and design to other team members with minimal text and images.

So we need to know how to make a One Page and One Sheet as a game producer.

Since I have never heard what these two things are, in order to understand their concepts clearly, I checked the information on the Internet.

One Page is a document which shows the main features of our project in a brief, attractive and effective way. ("How to design your One Page", 2016)

First, I need to analyze my game, what aspects can be analyzed from myself, and secondly, what aspects may be interesting to players.

Reference

How to design your One Page. Game Developer. (2016). Retrieved 16 October 2022, from https://www.gamedeveloper.com/.

[et---blog]

Assignment 2 Progress

In A2 my idea was to create a one-page and one-sheet for the initial 2D platform game I had created, and after a lot of browsing on the internet I briefly understood the difference between one-page and one-sheet, "One Page" means a short, effective and attractive description of the main features of the developed game One Page" means a short, effective and attractive document describing the main features of the developed game, which should contain at least the concept, product information and selling points, while one-sheet is like a poster, its content does not need to be too complicated, but only needs to attract the players, a good one-sheet only needs the game screen and a short introduction to attract people. So I will post my one-sheet and one-page in my next blog.

[kavinsenanayake]

Assignment 2 progress

For assignment 2, I have decided to create a poster for a platformer game. The theme of the game will be about Knights and Dragons. The main selling point of the game is that the player will have to face off a legendary dragon boss that can attack the player with a fire breath, gust of wind attack and a tail slap attack. The player will have to avoid incoming attacks and slice away at the dragon to win the game. The design on the poster that i have in mind will have a simple cartoon aesthetic. This was decided as the drawings are easy to make and are also aesthetically pleasing as it gives the game a softer charm which is what I was looking for in the game’s overall feel. 

The title of the game that i plan on creating is called Johan the Brave featuring Johan the Knight who is on a mission to slay the dragon. 

Above is the full scale drawing of Johan and below is the sprite that might be used for the game. 

This is the full scale drawing of the Dragon that the player will have to face off at the end of the level. The dragon is using one of its special attacks and will be featured on the poster to show off how menacing the dragon is and that facing off with the dragon will be a fun challenge. 

The drawings have been designed in a way to replicate the feeling of old videogame art boxes so that that the game feels nostalgic and fun to play. 

[skye-wang-blog]

Assignment 2 Progress

Before I started working on one sheet and one page, I learnt that the two were different niches, with one sheet being more of a promotional poster that needed to show the beauty and appeal of the design. The one page is more detailed, with the game mechanics and gameplay written on it.

I gave priority to the one sheet, as this was a little more design oriented, I chose a background template that suited the theme and downloaded some planetary motifs to decorate it, then finished the formatting and added the text.In the one page part, I write all the text information that I need first, and finally add it after finishing the layout. After completing a part of the game, I intercepted a screen in the game and placed it in the middle, and gave a brief explanation on it. 

[ilyas-igb220]

Assignment 2 Progress

At the meantime, I have many ideas, but I don’t have a plan or strategy to create my sell sheet and one sheet. I also have no idea on how to design my sell sheet. I don’t know if using photoshop or word document will allow me to create the visual concept of the sell sheet I have in my mind.  I have not yet thought about which features I’m going to list on the one sheet.  I want to ensure that my sell sheet is presentable and explains the idea of the racing game towards my demographic as explained by Tracy Fullerton in chapter 16 : “Selling Yourself and Your Ideas to the Game Industry, page 498-499”.

Book Reference: Fullerton, T . (2019). Game Design Workshop: A Play centric Approach to Creating Innovative Games. (4th Edition).

[issy10773169]

Assignment 2 Progress

Currently for assignment 2, I have laid out the basic information for my One Page. I have done this so I focus more on the actual content of the page rather than it's aesthetic composition as I believe it will be easier to design after I have all of the format finished. Some of the information I have written are mainly within the 'Game Features'. These include the player's controls, enemy hit damage, level design and life/point system.

For my One Sheet, I have only done the title and the basic design of the overall document.