Week 1 Michael update

At the start of the project we discussed the ideas for the game and made a mind map of the different ideas and came up with a final idea for the storyline and setting of the game in a fantasy world which we all agreed on. The different ideas we had were from ben an idea of us making a sci-fi game, Sampson idea of a zombie shooter or a side scroller beat them up.

After that we talked about the different races in the game as well as me and sanjay came up with a gauntlet idea to be used similar to a ‘pit-boy’ also I said we could have magic as our main weapon since not many games don’t have it as its main source of combat.

Then we started to talk about the combat in more detail such as the puzzle system in which different magical spells are stronger than other spells and that different spells have weaknesses to other spells e.g. fire stronger then ice but its weaker against water.

We then started to talk about the different weapons in the game and that we were going to use a magical weapon idea similar to fable 3.

By the end of the week I had written up the background of the world so we could use it as reference later on.

Week1 Sampson

Week 1-

Tuesday we started the new project and i had to find a group of four to do the project with, me sanjay, ben and michael all formed a group together for the project.

To start the project we would need to choose a type of game we wanted for this we all chose to pick out a piece of papper from Drews pot, on the paper it would give us a genre inwhich our game would be and we recieved puzzle based. We all chose that we didnt want a game based solely on puzzles like Portal, i wanted for other components to be implemented within our game world. We all chose as a group to have puzzle based fighting system.

Wednesday we as a group finished our discussions of the puzzle based fighting system and wanted to talk more about the over all theme of our game world, i wanted a game qorld like Legacy of kain: Soul Reaver, it would be open world and have alot of puzzles you would need to get past in order to reach the objective and there were also elements of fighting included, unfourtunately the rest of my group wanted a rpg fantasy world. i did not mind this idea and so we all went along with it.

Thursday we knew what world we wanted ad now needed weapons and because of the style of the game we all had individual tasks to do, i had to make up the spell names and research diferent spells then get references to what the spells would look like, i also had researched how the magic system would work and the evolved states of the magic.

After this i thourght for our main storyline it would be good to have diferent clans, each race belonged to a clan. After we had chosen to have diferent races we chose to have the main races that are in most rpg fantasy games so humans, elves and dwarves. I was in charge of the dwarves and so i had gone through and researched specifications of dwarfs like there looks and heights, i soon came to the conclusion that they are similar to leprachauns.