Evaluation

For this project I had to design an idea for a game and visually record my ideas and put my ideas into words in a understandable way for others to visualize my idea.

I begun with idea generation for the kids animation game and researching into existing flash games and garnering inspiration. I found the site Newgrounds an excellent source of research and inspiration, topped with flash games. And from past use of the site and playing many games on the site, I already had alot of inspiration and ideas for my game. I looked into lineart and how it works and details an image. And experimented with doing reference images in lineart, this was a good way to learn how lineart works and how it distinguish the difference features and body parts of whatever drawn.

A big part of this project was going to Dartmoor to take at least twenty images for my game design. These images would be the scenes for my game and I would manipulated one around my game idea. My idea for my game, was an fantasy adventure type game, moving between the different scenes(images) by choosing which way you want to go, often you will be given more than one direction to go, taking you to different scenes. For example, you have a scene with a path going two ways, one way would lead to a cave entrance and the other would go into woods.

 The game will center around the player, and one on screen character companion who interacts with the player through text and such. Giving opinions on the scene they are in, or situations they are in. To create my character, I used a graphics tablet to draw her. This is my first time using a graphics tablet and was a great connivence for my project, helping me draw my character, do my lineart and also to draw tokens and other things for my game, most of which can be seen in my manipulated image.

Overall I like my idea for my game and feel it worked well for the dartmoor setting. I am just concerned over how well I managed to portray my ideas into words and also visually.
If I could do something differently about my project, it would probably be to use the graphics tablet more, as I feel I probably used it a little late into the project, but despite that it was still a great help. Furthermore I would have done more to my character, such as fully detailed and coloured and more poses, but time constraints made this problematic to complete.