Building Alliances - Week 2:

In this blog I will talk about what I worked on this week and what was discussed. We worked on several things this week and finished off finalising our ideas so that we could start making concept art for the project. 

What we discussed:

We discussed topics that needed to be researched then made a list for our research lead to assign research to each of us and then we talked about what we needed to put in our moodboards for next week. We also decided to finalise some ideas that we had specifically with what we wanted the look of the game to be and how much it would be 2D or 3D. We were then assigned a research topic that we would research over next or two week. We were struggling to find an interesting way to be able to have the gameplay of the game to be different from most tower defence games however we were talking about our level select and I suggested an old game for the ps3 called eye pets and that we could take inspiration from the xray they have in the game.

EyePet: Your Virtual Pet Playstation 3 Clip - Pet Health, 2011. [Youtube] IGN, May 21. Available at: https://youtu.be/M3KdHA2KHBs?si=uOtAARQe86yFFEBh [Accessed: 13 October 2024]

I thought this would be good for inspiration as we needed an interesting way for the level select so I suggested that we take inspiration for eye pets and take a similar approach with a human instead of a pet. We could use the idea of having an xray for a level select to show how the microplastics are spreading over the body so when you go to find the next level with the xray you may be able to see microplastics there already at the next level. If you look around first you may be able to see where microplastics were spreading around the body as well. If we did use this idea though we would have to research to see if xrays can show microplastics depending on how many were in the body or possibly think about other ways we could show it as we want the game to be educational we don't want to spread misinformation. We are still looking into other options for the selection screen but this the main one we were talking about using. 

Team Meeting:

In the meetings we had we discussed what we had worked on since the lesson and what ideas we all had. We mainly talked about what our assigned research was and talked about the art style that we wanted to use as not all of us would be able to draw in a realistic style so we had to find a style that was suitable for all our skill levels. We talked about a game that our director had recorded himself playing so he could show us for an example of what we could use for inspiration and he showed us which parts that we could take inspiration of such as the type of pathways seen and the art style the game has. 

We were given our research tasks by our research lead and I was given: Ways microplastics can be combatted / prevented. I think its will be one of the important parts we will need to research so we can include it when we are making the gameplay of fighting against the microplastic enemies.  

What we need to do for next week:

Seb asked us to start making moodboards before next week and look into the art style that we want to use and inspiration for how we want the game too look. We were also asked by our research lead to start researching and we were each given a topic to research.