Wednesday 11 October 2017

Genre Choice And Why


Link to the Google Docs:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dbvthJNJMwZzKB8NVl_I2BoGRxZkzi7ZdZaONML-Ukk/edit?usp=sharing

Justification

The game idea that I choose out of the 4 would have to bee the Horror game (Game idea 1) because I feel like it would prove to be quite a challenge and also because my group has come up with many good ideas for the horror version of the game and also we have an idea for how the game will play and feel. Some of the ideas we have for the hooror game would be to have it be about sneaking around and trying not to be caught. When it comes to the other game ideas I feel like creating the Action (Game idea 2) version could come with some issues for example it will be more based on fast paced and if you can't get that feeling then the game will not feel as good as it should. The platformer (Game idea 3) we decided not to do because we wanted to create a 3D game. The Shooter (Game idea 4) idea we didn't do because we felt like it wouldn't fit the film as well because the film is mainly martial arts and so having them run around with guns wouldn't fit very well for our game.

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Sound assignment

Level 3 Games Design
Unit 73 understanding sound in games
Task 1 Compare and contrast
The two games that I will be comparing are
The music made in The last of us was made and created by Gustavo Santaolalla and he is a very famous man in the games industry.
Little big planet Dead heat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRHZ0g94SoQ
Little big planets dead heat sound track was made by a man named Barry Adamson and he is well known in the music industries.
Compare
Both of the artists are well known for example Gustavo Santaolalla has also made sound tracks like Can dry leaves help us and Barry Adamson has made Mr Eddy’s theme.
Both of the sound tracks don’t use much Foley as I don’t hear many natural sounds when I listen to the sounds
I think that both tracks use Timbre but I also think that The last of us uses more timbre than dead heat does.
Neither game ran into legal issues when they were made as both of the artists used their own instruments to create their own sound tracks.
I think that both games music would be compressed because if not the disc could run out of space with the full game on top of it and if this happens it could make the game unplayable and so I think that would have made the music file a MP3, RA or VOX file.
I believe that both games have a Mono sound track as when I listen to them I only hear the music coming from one location and if it was stereo or surround then it would mean that I would hear the music all around me or some in one ear and some in the other but I done on either.
Contrast
The mood both games set are different as the last of us sets more of a mystery type of feel to the game where as the track Dead Heat makes me feel like the level is dangerous because of the way the tone goes in the music.
I believe that both of the producers of these two tracks wanted the player to feel different things for example The last of us could have wanted to make the player think about what could happen next and this can get the player hooked on the game as they would want to know more about what is going to happen and the music shows this where as Little big planet’s dead heat wants to make the player hyped and makes them feel like they need to rush and get to the end fast or they could lose and I think that then upbeat tone of the game shows this.
Both types of sound have a different wave length you can tell this because if you look at the video Dead heat is a longer track than The last of us and this could mean the Wave length is longer


Task 2 principles of sound production
I believe that The last of us used timbre more than little big planet because in the whole thing you can hear a guitar that was recorded and the sent through some software to create the sound track but I don’t hear many instruments when I listen to Little big planets dead heat so I think that it was mainly created by using software on the computer.
I didn’t hear any natural sounds like wind blowing through leaves when I was listening to both tracks and because of this I don’t think that they had much if any natural sounds in the tracks.
There are two types of compression (Compressed and Uncompressed) and with these two there are different files for them for example Compressed has MP3, RA and VOX whereas Uncompressed has WAV, AIFF, AU, SMP and VOC. While both of these games where made on a blue ray disk I believe that they are both compressed because of how big both games are and because of this the game would take up a lot of space meaning that they would need as much space as possible and so compressing the music would give them more space.
When I am listening to these games I think that they are both MONO types of music because of the fact that I only hear the song coming from one place and this would be MONO the other types would be Stereo and Surround but I don’t think it is these as Stereo uses 2 speakers when recording sound to give the impression of sound coming from one ear instead of both and Surround uses 3-4 speakers to give the impression that the sound is all around you but when I am listening to it I don’t feel it is these two and I think it is MONO sound.
When they are making the game they would need to think about resolution because the higher the resolution the more memory but it would also make the quality of sound better and so if the resolution is too low that the sound would be really bad and rough with a lot of static and cuts but if it is in a high resolution then it would be better sound in smooth quality and I think that both tracks have a high resolution in the game.
When making the sound tracks they need to think about RAM because if the sound takes too much RAM then the game could be lagging or not work all together and when thinking of this you could name your files different things with short names to make them take less memory and also the game itself would take a lot of memory and RAM.
When making the sound Gustavo Santaolalla used real sounds like playing a guitar and then sent it through some software to smoothen it out and they he would put it together with other pieces of music he made or found but when finding this music you must be careful because if you take music without permission then you could end up being sued and have the game taken down so you must be careful.


Monday 16 January 2017

Sound effects in games

Level 3 Games design
Unit 73: Sound for Computer Games
Zelda Wind Waker HDZelda Wind Waker HD is a re master of the original Zelda Wind Waker game that was made for the game cube. The aim of this game would be to go around the world beating many dungeons that have bosses at the end of them and the reason you do this is to collect heart pieces that increase your max life.
Chest opening sound (Metaphor)
Game Over Sound (Symbolic) a lot of the gaming community know the zelda Death sound 
Navi sound that can tell you when to talk to navi (Speech) The Navi sound effect is on eof the most annoying sounds in the game and it is also very repetitive in the game as it can happen almost anywhere and it can also be for any little thing like opening a door.
Dark Souls
Dark souls is a game based on exploration and your goal is to level up and fight undead monsters that get harder and harder as the game progresses you will also be fighting bosses to proceed with the game.
Game Over Sound (Symbolic)
Skyrim
Fus Ro Dah (iconic) This sound effect is iconic in the gaming community and almost everyone in the gaming communinty knows what it sounds like

Monday 9 January 2017

Best selling games

Level 3 Games Design


Best selling games

1. Tetris
Platforms: IOS, Android, Blackberry and Play station Portable 
Price on Release:
Sales: 100 Mill
Why so successful: I think that this game was so popular because at the time it was made it was one of a kind because no other game had the same idea of Tetris and so people wanted to try it out and then word spread that it was
ok

2. Wii Sports
Platforms: Nintendo Wii
Price on Release:
Sales:
Why so successful: Wii sports could have got so popular because when the Wii was first released Wii Sports was the game that came with it and so when people bought the Nintendo Wii they also got Wii Sports.

3. Minecraft
Platforms: PC
Price on Release: $16.06
Sales: 82.69 Mill
Why so successful: Minecraft was so popular when it first came out and also to this day because of the open world that you can explore as much as you want and then when multiplayer came out more people got it so they could play with one an other.

4. GTA V
Platforms: PC, XBOX, Play Station
Price on Release: £39.99
Sales: 70 Mill
Why so successful: GTA V was successful because of its good campaign and also the online but one of the biggest reasons is because you can do anything you want in a world like the one you live in and so it can be a way of doing things that you can't do in the real world,

5. Super Mario Bros
Platforms: NES
Price on Release: 
Sales: 54 Mill
Why so successful: Super Mario Bros was successful because when it came out platforming games where quite popular and so this game took the platforming world into the next stage with some of the best graphics at the time and also many different levels with just one goal. 

6. Mario Cart Wii
Platforms: Nintendo Wii
Price on Release:
Sales: 40.24 Mill
Why so successful: Mario Cart Wii was popular because of the Mario franchise and also because games like Need for Speed and Burnout were getting quite popular so a racing game with Mario would hit the stores by storm.

7. Tetris (Game Boy)
Platforms: Game Boy
Price on Release:
Sales: 35 Mill
Why so successful: Tetris for the game boy was popular because of how popular the original and now that it is on a portable device then it would just sell more and more.

8.Wii Sports Resort
Platforms: Nintendo Wii
Price on Release:
Sales: 32.80 Mill
Why so successful:

9. New Super Mario Brothers
Platforms: Nintendo Wii
Price on Release:
Sales: 30.79 Mill
Why so successful:

10. Diablo 3
Platforms: PC, XBOX 360, PS3, MAC
Price on Release:
Sales: 30 Mill
Why so successful:

Sound For Computer Games

Level 3 Games design

Unit 73 Sound for computer games

P1 Starter Exercise

A.   5 Different games music and the mood
Buck Bumble theme – Happy/Hyped mood – The music starts on the title screen of the game and the way it sets the mood would be that it gets the player ready for a fast paced game that has lots of action in it
Super Mario Bros theme – Happy mood – The music of this game play through the hole game and it makes me enjoy playing the game and with the good soundtrack and a good game it make the game fun to play and addicting.
Cod 4 theme – Mysterious/Action pact – The theme of this game made me exited for it and I think that then music really hyped up the game
Skyrim main theme – Action pact – The Skyrim theme is quite intense and as it is playing through the intro it makes me feel excited for the game as the music hypes me up to play the game.
Halo theme – Mysterious/Action pact – The halo theme is quite smooth but the beat picks up more towards the middle of the theme and this can make me look forward to the game and it also makes me look forward to how the game will play out in the end.

B. Research 
Music is important to games because it can set an atmosphere of the game for example if it is a horror game and you do a sound affect that sounds like a heart beating it can make the player feel like they are really there. Music is also an important part to a game because it can keep you hooked to a game.
“Music in videogames has proven to be the difference between a defining emotional climaxes reaching its full splendour.” http://the-artifice.com/the-role-of-music-in-videogames/

C. What is Wavelength
The wavelengths of sound frequencies audible to the human ear (20 Hz–20 kHz) are thus between approximately 17 m and 17 mm, respectively.

D.What is Foley
Relating to or concerned with the addition of recorded sound effects after the shooting of a film.
They include sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, crockery clinking, paper folding, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking, etc. etc. The reason why it is called Foley is because the creator of  it was called Jack Foley

E.What is Timbre
The character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.
Timbre is a word that describes the tone or unique quality of a sound. If you play the same note on a piano and on a guitar, each note will have its own timbre.



Tuesday 8 November 2016

Concept Art

Level 3 Games Design

Unit 78 Generating Concept Art ideas for Computer Game Graphics

Concept Art
The idea for the game that I am making is a stealth game.
Ninja (Main Character)
The ninja will be the main character in my game
1.  Outline
2. Added Eyes
 
3. Adding Detail
 
4. Adding Colour
 
5. Adding more Colour
 
Alpaca (Movement)
The Alpaca will be in the game to take you from stage to stage.
1.     Outline
     
2.     Adding Detail
     
3.     Added Colour
     
4.     Added more Colour
Heart (Object)
The heart in the game will give you extra health up to 3.
1.     Outline
     
2.     Added Colour
3.     Added a little Shading
     
Sword Weapon
The sword will allow you to defeat the guards to proceed.
1.     Outline
2.     Added Detail on handle
     
3.     Added a grey to Blade
4.     Added some shading to the blade
     
5.     Added colour to the handle
     
Games Graphics:
•Print media graphics, such as game poster, game packaging
•In-game graphics (head-up display graphics, sprite graphics, background graphics, image textures)
•Concept art graphics
For more information on this go to:

Game Specification
•Client needs: What the client Requires for the project that they're asking you to make
•Audience: What type of age range and gender that you are hoping will play your game.
Thumbnail sketching: Quick images that are repeated and small.
•Visual style, eg colour, style, photorealistic, cel-shaded, anime
•Composition: What you place in the frame and so you could use Rule of Thirds witch is a 
•Typography: What type of font you are using for example if you are using a font that is happy for a
horror game then it could be misleading
•Technical considerations, eg file format, file size, optimisation, file naming conventions, asset
management, intended output

Big Trouble In Little China Story Boarding

Level 3 Games design

Image result for little trouble in big chinaUnit 74 Computer Game Story Development

Story Telling
Big Trouble in little China
Intro
Two people are talking and they are talking about a man named Jack on of them looks Chinese and he believes the sorcery and so he persuades the other man by showing him some of this “Sorcery” and so he makes lightning between his hands to prove it is real. We then meet jack in a car as he rides around the city. There are people gambling and so jack plays cards with a man named Wang they gamble about a man cutting a bottle open with a knife the man tries to cut it and fails so Jack catches the bottle. Jack and Wang start to head to the Airport to pick up a girl that Wang has known since they were kids and now he has fallen for her and so he is nervous to meet her. Jack meets a girl at the airport that Wang thinks is trouble and a gang ends up walking in to them and the girl seems nervous almost like she is in some trouble with them We see the three gang members heading towards a girl and they end up grabbing her and because of this Jack ends up starting a fight with the man that grabbed her and then after they hit jack the men end up running away with the girl and so they chased them down into a parking lot where they spot the men but they got away with Wang’s girl. Jack and Wang take a truck to try to find the American woman that they saw at the airport and they spot some people that are trying to fight some people and Wang calls them all “Animals” The men have guns and the open fire trying to kill everyone and so Jack and Wang find themselves stuck in between a gang war the end up having a Chinese stand off and so Jack and Wang have no choice but to see how the fight plays out and so as the fight continues more and more people are shown getting hurt and killed three more men join the fight and seem to use sorcery just like they were talking about at the beginning as they fight these mysterious men end up fighting for one of the sides and Wang panics and tells jack to get out of here another man appears and uses his sorcery on Jack and he is blinded temporarily one of the men calls out Wang’s name and so Jack and Wang had to run away the three people that appear where known as “The Three Storms”

Middle
Jack and Wang end up at Wang’s house and then the American woman shows up and we find out that the whole thing is a miss understanding as the gang steals the wrong person and we find out that the people who took her are called the White Tigers then show up at the place to save Wang’s girl but the American woman says she can’t go in and so Jack infiltrates the White Tigers den to see if he can save the girl and also the American woman says that they have one of their top people on the case we see the girl that they are looking for tied up and then suddenly an earthquake happens that shakes the place and so Jack looks out the window to see a green mist heading towards them. The Three Storms show up and go to the girl that was taken and so they ended up at the American woman’s office and they find out where the Three Storms are located. Jack and Wang go to the Enemies base and Wang ends up finding a secret door and they get trapped and then the trap begins to fill with water and so they swim around and find them self’s in a cave and in this cave they find one of the Three Storms and Jack tries to fight him but he is defeated and then both Wang and Jack are taken to a suspicious room where they meet a man in a wheel chair and so they find a man called David Lopan they start to talk about Wang’s lover and they are talking about how she has Green Eyes and David wants to lift his curse and that is the reason that he kidnapped this girl. Jack and Wang find themselves in what looks like a cell and as they are in this cell the other 3 are trying to get into the place as well but they are found out and so they are put to sleep with sleeping gas. Wang starts to tell Jack a story about sorcery and then someone comes to the door and so they quickly must make it look like they are still trapped and so Jack catches one of them and Wang runs but Jack is quickly sent flying and he hits a chair that sends him down a hall almost to his doom as he only just gets of the chair in time before the chair falls into a well. We see the girl again knocked out and an evil man looking over her wishing for her eyes. Jack and Wang fight some more guys as they run into a warehouse. Jack and Wang once again try to get in but they are met with a guard that they end up fighting but as Wang and another person fight him Jack finds there friends and ends up fighting another person and then frees his friends and they all try to get away but not without a fight as they jump into a pool of water to try to swim away under the water and into a tube they all make it through but they can’t find Mather Eddy and Jack but one after another they start to show up they find themselves in something like a garbage disposal Wang knows where they are and it seems they are in the sewers they take one of the many manholes that are in the sewers to escape but when they open the last door they find themselves trapped because of the many members that were waiting outside for them they then start to fight the people who are coming after them and so they escape and they head to the bus but before they can get there they need to get passed more people and one of them is captured but the rest of them make it to the bus and manage to escape the woman was taken by a monster that took the woman back to the Three Storms but it was a different woman but both of the woman have green eyes. Jack starts to sharpen a knife as he prepares to attack David Lopan he gets some men that are ready to fight David Lopan. The Woman is taken to another room where see meats another person that is trapped in the same room and one of the men who wants to marry a girl with Green Eyes goes to the girl and uses his sorcery meanwhile Jack and Wang are stocking up on supplies and are shown a hole that leads to the villain so that he can go to fight him and so they are taken under china town. There are some men that seem to be doing some kind of dance and so it could be a ritual to try and take the woman’s eyes the lift the woman into the air and she touches an orb that was in the air and the villain wants her to take the “Burning Heart”. Jack and everyone finds a monster that was living in the sewers the two girls that where captured the villains are in a room and one of the men is using sorcery on them. When Jack is in the sewers they are told more about the past and they find out the rest of the truth and that is that the villain has got to kill the girls so that the curse can be lifted and so the infiltrate the base again and they find out that the wedding is soon.

End
Our heroes find themselves in the enemies base but they find that it is too quiet and they think it is a trap but some think it is because of the wedding and so they continue and find an elevator but they find out that it can only go down and so the old man tells them to drink something that will give them powers and so when they get in the elevator they find that it is starting to get hot in there but it is fine and they get out meanwhile they are about to finish the wedding that will break the curse but they cannot kill him until he is alive and normal but this could kill the women but just before they can finish the wedding the heroes are found and a whole fight brakes out but this didn’t stop the villain as he tries to finish the ritual himself but they cannot stop him as he is busy with the other people that are trying to kill him but the old man stops him with his magic and they start to have a fight between magic and sorcery he is then attacked by another sorcerer but he sends his sorcery back at him Wang chases the villain to save the woman he loves and Jack and Grace (one of the Green Eyes Woman) but the monster that took her returned and he escaped it but the villain still has the other woman and so he finds the villain and Wang finds them all as they are just about to fight and they fight one man who holds them off to protect the main villain but he doesn’t do a good job because he is taken away by Wang and then Jack throws a knife at the main villain but misses but jack had another knife that he threw and killed him and because he was killed the last sorcerer lost the power to control it and he goes crazy and so the heroes try to escape through a hole in the ceiling but they can’t escape as the man is still following them and trying to kill them as they try to escape they run into more people and they start to shoot at them but they manage to find Jack’s Truck but they don’t have the keys for it but luckily Jack had a spare key in the Truck and so they get away from the villains and have a party and so Jack says goodbye.

Film or Book
The film started off as a Script but it has a Comic book and a normal Book.
Image result for Big trouble in little china book

Characters Motivation
The Motivation for the characters is for them to try and save the girls that where taken by the villain.

Jack Burton: Jack Burtons motivation for defeating evil would be to save Gracie and his Truck but when it came to fighting he didn't do so great

Image result for Jack Burton big trouble little china
Wang Chi:Wang's motivation was to save his girlfriend that was taken by David Lo Pan and so he fought many battles and won them to rescue her and when it came to fighting we found that he is quite strong.

Image result for wang chi big trouble little china
David Lo Pan: David Lo Pan was cursed and the only way to get rid of the curse was to do a ritual with a woman with green eyes and so he kidnaps Gracie and Margo to remove the curse.

Image result for big trouble in little china
The Three Storms: These three men are called Rain, Thunder and Lightning and they serve David Lo Pan and they want to remove his curse.
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Main Characters Relationship and if it changes
At the start of this film we started by seeing quite a hostile relationship between Wang and Jack but Jack starts to respect Wang as the film goes on and so they end up becoming good friends
The main person that changes would be Jack because he goes from only wanting to find his truck to wanting revenge for the people that the main villain took.

Emotional Theme of the characters

Jack Burton: the film starts with him getting mad at wang because he didn't pay him the money he ows but then he gets mad because he loses his truck and then gets mad again becasue they kidnap the girl he loves he also get happier when he saves the girl and gets his truck back.

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Wang Chi: The film starts with Wang in a panic because he loses a bet to jack and he also is in a rush to get to the airport but when he gets there he becomes mad and angrey because Miao Yin was taken by so guys and so with his rage he fights many people and saves her.

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David Lo Pan: When we first meet David Lo Pan he was old and he seemed quite happy because he had kidnapped both of the girls with Emerald Eyes but when they started to fight he seemed paniced and in a rush.

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Characters

Main: Jack Burton, Wang Chi, David Lo Pan.

Sub:Lighting, Thunder, Rain, Edd Shen, Uncle Chu, Margo, Graice Law, Miao lin, Needles, One ear, Joe lucky.

Plot
The Plot of this film was that a man named Jack met a man named Wang and they went to meet a girl that was then captured and so they went to save her but then they found sorcerers and they took her but they were bad guys and they needed girls with green eyes to brake a curse