This week is presentation week, by Monday we must have sent off our posters to be printed out and have a solid presentation to show to our peers and lecturers.
Making the Poster
For my poster I had a good idea of what I wanted it to look like, I did a simple digital sketch to see how the composition would look.
This went well so I decided to move it into Photoshop and begin contructing the poster.
I began with a gradient of the main colours from the shop environment going darkest to lightest. I then drew the character and background elements using a large chalk like brush to give it a childish feel. Once the flat colours were done I began doing some light shading, though I focused more on creating texture than shading.
This is my first copy of the poster, I used clkoud brushes to give it a light airy feel and hark back to the imagination element of the story. I then overlayed a rainbow lens flare over the whole image.
The QR code leads to this website.
This is the final iteration of the poster. I showed the previous version to my lecturer who felt it lacked something to really show the importance of the photographs to the game.
In answer to this I added the swirling photographs to it, each photo has a simple representation of something in the game, like the NPC’s and locations.
I am very pleased with the poster and am excited to see it printed out.
Making the Presentation
To make the presentation I went into Photoshop and created the teal to pink gradient, then in Photoshop I applied it to every slide.
Actually Presenting
My poster on display
I was disappointed with how presenting the game went, I feel I spoke to fast and did not communicate my ideas accurately, as there was some confusion with some elements.
I also only recieved one bit of feedback virtually that was also confused.
I will have to work on my public speaking and communication skills. To get better at this and avoid any confusion.
The feedback I recieved
Next Steps –
I need to begin populating my GDD pages, and work more on succinctly describing my game and the ideas behind it.
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