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Individual Project - Solutions to the Single Player Problem
Many of the popular games of this and last year have been co-op, whereas the game I have planned out is single player. Here are various...
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Apr 22, 20212 min read
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Individual Project - New Plan on tackling Primary and Secondary Research
Use Secondary Research for a broader source of information, but back it up and compare with Primary Research. Generalising is a problem...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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Unity - Creating a Minimap
Part of UI in games is a Minimap, which the player can use to navigate the world their character in-game is in. Creating one of these in...
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Apr 16, 20212 min read
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Nuke - Rotoscoping
The next exercise I did involved rotoscoping, which is done on complex, moving objects. This is most commonly used when applying FX to...
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Apr 16, 20215 min read
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Types of UIs in Games
There are various different forms of UI that appear in games, which players can use to interact with different parts of a game's...
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Apr 16, 20213 min read
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Game Design - First Draft and Iterations
Using the idea generation ideas discussed in the previous post of this unit, I created a Game Design Document of my original idea, and...
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Apr 13, 20214 min read
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Individual Project - Introduction and Level 1 (Vertical Slice) Story
I wrote out a basic summary for the Introduction and Level 1 of the game I'm proposing in my project. The reason I only wrote out these...
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Apr 8, 20211 min read
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Individual Project - Concept Art and Outline
I'm a person that enjoys coming up with stories and concepts for characters and worlds, which put me in a fortunate position. Mostly, the...
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Apr 1, 20215 min read
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Portfolio - Comic Strip
My previous portfolio images I made contained some of the constellations as characters, which is a theme I've been using in my artwork...
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Mar 17, 20214 min read
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Individual Project - Game Development Cycle
Game Development Cycle: · Pre-Production(10% - 20% of the project): o Defining costs – after an idea is decided on, it’s important to...
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Mar 8, 20212 min read
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Game Design - Initial thoughts and brainstorming
To start off the idea phase, I created a mindmap of my initial ideas. This was a blend of brainstorming and forcing relationships between...
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Mar 7, 20212 min read
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Game Design - Idea Generation Techniques
There are 3 stages of creating concept ideas: generation, selection, and implementation. This is an integral process, which we must all...
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Mar 7, 20213 min read
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Nuke - Planar Tracking
Now that I've had a quick tutorial in Nuke and am a bit more familiar with how the interface works and how to create simple animations...
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Mar 5, 20217 min read
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Individual Project - Research Plan
Because of the broad scope of this project, I felt that it was a good idea to outline the main points of it to keep track of what needs...
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Mar 4, 20212 min read
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Individual Project - Initial thoughts and ideas
The next unit we move onto is the Individual Project, which was set to us by Pearson. It’s about the democratisation of media, which...
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Mar 1, 20212 min read
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Nuke - Introduction
Over the course of the second VFX Unit of this course, I'll be using the programme Nuke to create a showreel of our work this year. This...
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Feb 26, 20214 min read
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3D Modelling - Postmortem
Over the course of the 3D Unit, I've learned a lot about modelling. 3D Modelling was something I'd previously done on the NextGen Course,...
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Feb 22, 20212 min read
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History of 3D Modelling
Sources: http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/modeling-basics/ http://docs.pixologic.com/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/...
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Feb 22, 20211 min read
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Danny Sweeney and Das - 3D Artist Analysis
Danny Sweeney is a Senior Character Artist for Creative Assembly, and has created many characters for games over the years. He...
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Feb 22, 20218 min read
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Creative Industries - Future Developments
Video: PowerPoint slides: Script: In 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU, which naturally brings a lot of new variables to the Games...
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Feb 11, 20213 min read
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