The theme of our project was to make an educational game
that was fun but also taught people something, we also had to choose a specific
audience on which our game would be aimed at for example 16+, 18+ etc. teens at
16 are going out with friends and if they play video games its always games
like Call of duty or Gta. My chosen audience was 16+ in school. I have
developed my idea by researching further into my chosen theme which was ancient
Egypt and getting ideas that are somewhat accurate to history, i did not really
make my game relevant to the characteristics of a normal 16 year old as it was
quite hard with it being Egyptian and all but in my game there will be blood so
that should keep them satisfied. The reference material i found was quite
useful as it helped me understand things about ancient Egypt a lot better and
helped me implement thing into my game, like hieroglyphics and the colour
scheme which i looked at online, this helped make my concept pieces look
somewhat authentic. The research i conducted helped me develop my skills as i
looked at many different Egyptian concept pieces online and this helped me
better understand colour schemes and perspectives which i then implemented into
my work. There were no particular artists that inspired me but Egyptian culture
in general inspired me, this was also relevant to my project. The Egyptians
mainly used dried, flattened and stuck together papyrus reeds to write
hieroglyphics on, they also used to carve and paint them onto tombs and walls.
The materials I used were pen, pencil, Photoshop and a
little bit of construct 2, I used Photoshop the most as that is what I’m most
comfortable with. My game was in a first person style so when i made the quick
short level in construct 2 i had to make it top down and slightly less
detailed, this is the only difference i had to make when using construct. The
techniques/elements i used were shading, toning, line, light, shape and colour.
If Photoshop was not around my work would look a lot different and probably not
as good because Photoshop makes everything easier. My work did not change that
much throughout the project except i started to use the texturizer tool a
little more in Photoshop and i also got a better understanding of shadows and
lighting. The research i wish i had done more of is on Egyptian tombs because
my concept pieces are just made up from my head and i didn't properly look up
what an authentic one looked like. The visual language i deliberately tried to
convey whilst creating my concept art is that within my game you are going to
rely heavy on torches in the game as your only light source and this makes you
feel scared, also when looking at my concepts you can tell that one of the main
elements of the game is based on light. The overall meaning is to make you feel
uneasy/scared and i think i was successful in conveying this as you can clearly
tell by my concept art that it has some elements of horror. I am happy with my
final piece and i particularly enjoyed doing the concept art. If i could change
anything i would probably just create a lot more concept pieces and i would have
made a more detailed game in construct 2.
The things i learned in this assignment were mainly
revolving around construct 2 as i did not really know how to do anything on
there but once we had the guide to help us from Chris i gained a better
understanding. I think the work we did for this assignment was important for
the overall course as it helped us understand more about demographics and
certain types of audiences and i think this knowledge will help us down the
line. For this project i did try to make my visual work look nice and really
took my time with it, as for the written i did try but not as much as i did for
the art. The things i think i did well were mainly in Photoshop/drawing as this
is what i enjoy most and i am happy with the way my art turned out. The
mistakes i made were mainly in Photoshop as i had a little bit of trouble
wrapping my head around angles/perspectives and shadows within the art and i
had a friend and tutor help me with these. If I had to do the project
differently I would have done all the written stuff first before the art as i
take the longest on art. The classroom activities helped me as well during this
project like the group critique, it did not benefit me that much but it was
interesting to see other people’s ideas and the brainstorming activity near the
start of the project where we all had to draw things from the ideas that other
people gave us. There were no materials or techniques that i hadn’t used before
but i hadn't used construct barley at all so i guess that was the newest thing
to me and i guess i could implement construct into future projects. Overall i
am happy with my project.
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