Four Research Topics
Mould can be added to cheese to enhance the texture and flavour, like an ingredient In the current landscape, it seems that if you are not paying for access to content with your money, you are paying for it with READ MORE
Ideas
How to come up with ideas The article ‘Good Ideas Grow on Paper’ by Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson (2010) highlights the importance of getting ideas on paper before jumping into the creative process on a computer, ‘Idea generation should READ MORE
Potential Research Topics
Over the course of this semester we will be researching four topics divorced from any games design ideas, which we will narrow down to one idea to deepdive. This will help us to create more unique games that we would READ MORE
Bibliography
Chandler, B. (2017) ‘Using contrast to affect visibility’, 304, 17 March. Available at: https://ben304.blogspot.com/2017/03/using-contrast-to-affect-visibility.html (Accessed: 7 February 2025) Ellis et al. (2017) Games accessibility guidelines Full List. Available at: https://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/full-list/ (Accessed: 20 February 2025). Palmquist, A., Jedel, I. and Goethe, READ MORE
Advertising
We decided that we should create a poster and handbook in order to advertise our game in preparation for the the Year 2 Games Showcase, which would be our final playtest. We decided that this should be my job since READ MORE
Tim Burton
To help me with this project, I decided to visit a Tim Burton exhibition in the Design Museum in London. As Tim Burton is a prolific horror artist, I thought that looking at what makes his artwork scary would benefit READ MORE
Animation
Based on the Week 9 playtest, I would be creating a small sparkle animation for the key item picked up in the corridor. I initially added this to the background, shown below, before realising it would be easier to add READ MORE
Environment Artwork 2
Rose’s Room: Rose’s room, since it is the room of the killer, is very important to the game. The paintings of Oedipus are also important to the plot of the game, and Youth asked me to include some of these READ MORE
Environment Artwork 1
Mandatory Playtesting Session The basement is the most important area of the game, since this is where the killer murdered Alex’s grandmother in the 1930s. Since this place was abandoned in the 1930s, I knew that it had to look READ MORE