{"id":50,"date":"2024-10-05T22:24:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/?p=50"},"modified":"2024-11-24T23:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T23:55:36","slug":"mood-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2024\/10\/05\/mood-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Game&#8217;s Art Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help me decide my game&#8217;s portrayal, I have made two mood boards with contrasting aesthetics, as I had two approaches for my game. One goes for a more classical circus vibe, whereas the other mood board depicts a colourful and childlike portrayal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/2-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" style=\"width:427px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/2-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/2-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/2-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/2-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, only one of the mood boards depicted can represent the lead art style and aesthetic. In the end, I found myself going for the second mood board with the brighter colours. I also had a talk with one of my friends from back home about these ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/image_2024-11-19_190040443-1024x753.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/image_2024-11-19_190040443-1024x753.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/image_2024-11-19_190040443-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/image_2024-11-19_190040443-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/image_2024-11-19_190040443-850x625.png 850w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2024\/10\/image_2024-11-19_190040443.png 1435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After talking with her, it gave me some incredible insight about what I wanted to do. Although making the overall theme &#8220;cute-like&#8221; could fall into a clich\u00e9, which isn&#8217;t a bad thing, however, I believe to an extent that this genre of game is oversaturated. A very well loved game amongst fans, <em>Doki Doki Literature Club! (2017)<\/em>, has somewhat increased the production for this sort of genre (because of the absolute jaw dropping mechanics; DDLC was one of the first games to read into the player&#8217;s account and sort of call out the player&#8217;s actions, breaking the 4th wall), although not being the first game to have made the &#8220;Oh wow this game looks wholesome! But it&#8217;s actually not!&#8221; category. As a result of this, it&#8217;s going to be harder to come up with ground breaking plot twists and a narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To summarise, I still want to look into my game&#8217;s art direction and look at other forms of media to assist me with my overall game aesthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help me decide my game&#8217;s portrayal, I have made two mood boards with contrasting aesthetics, as I had two approaches for my game. One goes for a more classical circus vibe, whereas the other mood board depicts a colourful and childlike portrayal.&nbsp; However, only one of the mood boards depicted can represent the lead &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2024\/10\/05\/mood-board\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Initial Game&#8217;s Art Direction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas-iteration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}