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Category: Semester 1

Overview

06Jan

Stellars Circus is a Point and Click Adventure Stealth game set in a fantasy world about a fugitive who joins the circus to escape the police. My major and minor focuses are art and mechanics. The Essential Experience I have READ MORE

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UI Design

06Jan

Shapeshifting animation concept Deciding how large I should make the spotlight, based on feedback I decided to make the spotlight the size of four squares: My friend told me that it looked strange for the place where the spotlight is READ MORE

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Narrative

06Jan

This week we focused on narrative and character design, looking at character tropes. In my game I want to focus on telling a linear story. Here is some notes that I made: In my game, the main antagonist doesn’t become READ MORE

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Lies – Creative Writing Piece

06Jan

This is a piece of creative writing I did, which is a part of the prequel to my games narrative. Within this piece, I start to set up the world in which my game exits and also introduce the origin READ MORE

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Character Concepts

06Jan

Concept Art and References Gregg Barnes Since I wanted to focus on the Circus, I decided to look into concept artists that worked with making stage costumes, since these costumes tend to be more dramatic and bolder due to the READ MORE

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Visiting a Circus

06Jan

Over Christmas I visited Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park to see two Circus shows there: Zippos Circus ‘Candyland’ and Cirque Berserk ‘Thunderbolt’. The goal of this trip was to discover more about how Circuses actually function, and what kinds of READ MORE

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Essential Experience

06Jan

Establishing the essential experience for the player can be very important in developing an engaging game concept. Conveying the experience of a specific emotion creates a unique game experience for the player. Based on the feeling of imposter syndrome, a READ MORE

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Worldbuilding

06Jan

Schell (2019, p. 369) Successful Transmedia Work Many very popular transmedia have a strong world behind it. These worlds are intuitive, allowing the creation of many stories within that world. This is common in media that becomes a big franchise, READ MORE

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American Railroad Circuses

06Jan

One of the most famous American Circuses was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. They were such a phenomenon that their arrival was anticipated to the extent that shops closed, schools were cancelled and factories shut down (Davis, READ MORE

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