{"id":336,"date":"2025-01-09T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/?p=336"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:27:26","slug":"week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/2025\/01\/09\/week-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For week 10 we worked on pitching and communicating our GDD&#8217;s. We will be repitching ideas with revised ideas in a more communicative and relaxed manner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Elevator pitch (what makes you game unique, not about the details, describe in a sentence or two, make a statement)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game loop (be specific on what the loop is and what the player does)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design pillars <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Audience &#8211; incl platform specs, market research, and if you know this audience (who they are, what games does your audience like and why does this game appeal to them?)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Genre (Steam) &#8211; do a competitor analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Newzoo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statista <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Google Trends<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steam D8<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Twitchtracker<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VG Insights <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"877\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/12\/ma-877x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/12\/ma-877x1024.png 877w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/12\/ma-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/12\/ma-768x896.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/12\/ma.png 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-cool-to-warm-spectrum-gradient-background has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Videogame Movie Club: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (1993)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Super Mario Bros. Movie I actually had the privilege of watching first time over the summer with my little sibling. The Super Mario franchise is one I know very well, so for once I feel qualified to judge the quality of the movie based on the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On its own, the Super Mario Bros. Movie is actually\u2026 pretty good! Were it not an adaptation, I believe it would go down in history as a cult classic; as its own strange and unique thing that one would watch every so often just to delight in its shameless ambition and creativity. But that\u2019s just the problem: it <em>is <\/em>an adaptation, and in that, it fails spectacularly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film bears almost no resemblance to the Super Mario Bros game that Nintendo worked so hard to make enjoyable to the public. Super Mario Bros is a bright and colourful, carefree game that became popular for its aesthetics and mechanics and mascot characters Mario and Luigi. It&#8217;s particularly popular with kids for this reason, and Nintendo soon characterised its entire company around being family friendly. So the Super Mario Bros. Movie is a bizarre step away from this premise. Instead of adapting the fun, rural, bright world players of the arcade game exhibit, it\u2019s set in New York with a dark and gritty aesthetic. The plot is grisly and attempts to explain the lore of the Super Mario World in a way that doesn\u2019t adhere to the tone of the games. It\u2019s not an accurate representation of the world, the characters, or the playstyle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2014\/11\/interview_rocky_morton_on_the_chaos_of_directing_the_super_mario_bros_movie\">In an interview<\/a> with Rocky Morton, one of the co-directors of the Super Mario Bros Movie, he states,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<em>We were going to tell the real story, and that the game itself was a perversion of the original story, which the movie is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a fundamentally backwards way of viewing an adaptation \u2013 particularly a Mario adaptation, whose tone and themes are simple. Distancing an adaptation from its IP discredits the reason why the IP is popular to begin with, and almost admits to a feeling of shame or superiority over it. But a big part of adapting is being able to commit to what you are adapting, whether you personally think it\u2019s good or not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my opinion, a much more successful translation of the Super Mario franchise is the Super Mario World TV series that aired on NBC in the USA. While not\u2026 the <em>most <\/em>high-production cartoon, it certainly captures the spirit of Mario, as it\u2019s set in a jurassic world where the main characters of Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Princess Toadstool go on a wacky adventure each episode, backed up with super-powers and side-characters from the mainline games. It\u2019s a lighthearted, easy Saturday-morning cartoon show for the lighthearted, easy Mario games; a great companion piece and a good, if not entirely accurate at times, adaptation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-cool-to-warm-spectrum-gradient-background has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luckily since this was more of a relaxed pitch, I was only required to show my website rather than make a big presentation. In this I highlighted information about target audience and marketing, some of the mechanics, and explained the new idea of creating your own escape route. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Needs some more supplementary art <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game could be getting to complicated <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For week 10 we worked on pitching and communicating our GDD&#8217;s. We will be repitching ideas with revised ideas in a more communicative and relaxed manner. Components: Videogame Movie Club: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (1993) The Super Mario Bros. Movie I actually had the privilege of watching first time over the summer with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-logbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}