pre-vis sketches

some pre-vis sketches i did (to prove where my renders came from-hahahaha)

Renders of my castle so far (still in progress)

some more renders

Renders of my castle so far (still in progress)

i have completed quite a lot of my castle/prison, i still have to decide some textures, and i still have to model some characters etc.

the old platformers

which are very much like my game, but of course these are 2d, they are a good inspiration.

Anamatic for backstory

I made this anamatic so it would help me make the animation for the backstory.

texture research/concept research

On Saturday, i went to Skipton and went around the castle walls. I took loads of useful photos which are going to come in use for my development/creation of my interactive design. These should help me of my thinking of how i am going to create my prison like environment.

Definate idea

I am going to create a game which is a stratedgy game, the theme of which is escaping an old medieval prison. The game will be in first person, and there will be many decision that you have to make, intertwined with puzzles that you have to complete in order to go through futher in the game and escape prison!!!! I am going to create some 'cut scenes' probably using maya, i will of course be using flash for the programming and maybe 2d bits of flash animation as well.
I am still undergoing research of games and the way they are played and how they are designed for you to do wat u want.

Far Cry - Instincts

This game i bought for the xbox second hand just cause i wanted a first person shoot em up. Also its is relevent to the island theme.

exersize in final cut i did today (tuesday)

Ideas For Games

I had two main initial ideas, one is about escaping prison and the other is a 'tomb raider' like spoof, where you have to go into a pyramid and solve puzzles in order to get to the next part, going deeper and deeper, then to complete the game, is to get the treasure at the end.
I decided in the end to kind of combine them both, as they both were lacking. I decided that i want to create a stratedgy game, where the player gets the options to decide whether they wanna leave by day or night for example, and if they choose a bad option, something could go wrong and they would get caught and then the game would be over. I would of course want this to be set in the middle-ages or some old ancient time period.

Further Games Research

also looking at non web based games, i have looked at the game 'Silent Hill 4- The Room' a game on the xbox and i have experienced a Horror Film which is basically Interactive, otherwords whatever happens, is up to the game player, i found it exactly that and found it very useful for my research in the way games are played. Especially this kind of game, it really tests your thinking, and if you do a wrong move some complete different ending which could take place. That is the way i would like to go with my game. At least it is the intended that way.

games research

I have been looking on websites, for flash games etc, and have seen many different games of either 2d or 3d renderd. Such websites like;

www.shockwave.com/home.jsp - main site for games as game sites needs this games encoder.

www.newgrounds.com/- the very popular site for many flash games and videos etc.

www.electrotank.com/index.electro - an old favourite of mine, where you can play mini golf, just simple sporty games.

and theres gunna be much more added , im still looking at all of the good game websites.