Jacky Cheong
Since the last blog there were a lot of things done, a playtest was conducted, discussions on the current state of the game had been made resulting in a new direction for the project and a short study in sound design was done to better achieve one of my aims. There was also a playtest …
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Fixes and updates During development, i have found that one of my aims is not as sufficient. As such I have rewritten my second aim: Learn how to evoke feelings of unease and tension through the use of spaces and sound to Learn how to evoke feelings of Weirdness and Eerieness through the use of …
Continue reading “Experimental Development Pt.5: Other methods to effect the weird and eerie”
A large number of changes have been made to the game, these changes were done to better integrate our chosen theme for the game. This being a traditional FPS game like Quake and Doom. Part of these changes were also done to integrate with Tom’s procedurally generated text. Changes made Variables Here the string variables …
The PCG is arguably in a good state, as such I am moving onwards towards developing spaces. This being one of my main aims for the project: Learn how to evoke feelings of unease and tension through the use of spaces and sound In this log I will conduct a case study to identify the …
Continue reading “Experimental Development Pt.3: How to develop uneasy and tense spaces”
There are several theories that can be adopted for approaches in teaching. For this essay I will focus on both Behaviourism and Constructivism to build a framework to use in the case study. The reason why I have chosen these theories is that both of these have distinctly opposing approaches, this meaning that behaviourism is …
Our current organisation for this project is for us separate work into different focuses. My focus being developing the level and general gameplay mechanics. These being the PCG for levels, the first player controls and interactions. Tom’s part will be implementing the narrative PCG system and informing the narrative direction for the project. We have …
Continue reading “Experimental Development Pt.2: Procedural Generation approach”
Note: During this case study I had realised a better approach for the analysis would be to place the Medium area of analysis under Delivery, this is because the Medium of the knowledge can be analysed as a subset of how the knowledge is delivered in games. As such each game will be analysed in …
Continue reading “Better teaching in fighting game tutorials Pt.4: Netherrealm case study”
Part of my essay will be focusing on fighting game tutorials. So one thing I should consider is what is a tutorial? What is it’s purpose? What components are used and how does a developer go about creating one? The tutorial by definition The interactive tutorial was a way of replacing the physical game manual …
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Initial concept For this project I want to explore procedural generation. Specifically the procedural generation of weird and uncanny spaces. This will be a navigable space in first person with a focus on the environment. The context is that the player is exploring a hotel trying to find the exit. Each level will be procedurally …
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For this project I want to look at how approaches in teaching can help inform and improve the development of tutorials in games. These approaches being pedagogical practices that are used during the teaching/learning process. [https://www.tes.com/news/what-is-pedagogy-definition]. A video game tutorial being the tool that teaches the player the rules and controls of the game. [https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-many-ways-to-show-the-player-how-its-done-with-in-game-tutorials–gamedev-400] …