"Game Vision Statement"

Game Vision Statement by Dillon Eagers

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For this weeks project I am focusing on the following  items of interest.

Game Genre

From researching other games I wish to make is a puzzle game in which  you control one of two police officers trying to catch numerous swans around a village within a timer. This will give the players both challenge to complete the task within a time frame , as well as to give them incentive to play again to beat their score giving the game replay ability status. I chose this status due to looking up what the genre of "untitled goose game" was, as It was the biggest inspiration to my game idea due to the warm village art style through warm colors  of its environment to the capability that the unity game engine could give me in creating this environment.

Here is a link to the info page where I got the type of game genre "Untitled Goose Game" , as well as other information about the title was from. Click here

I also Placed this link as I also used Wikipedia to look up the definition for puzzle video games. Click here.

Gameplay

For this I first looked up the definition of gameplay  using Google ,as can be seen in the link here states that "gameplay is the feature of a video game , such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics to the sound effects."

Here is an example I got fro, Wikipedia of the "Untitled Goose game" Gameplay information

"Set in an apparently middle class English village, Untitled Goose Game sees players control a goose which can honk, run, flap its wings, and grab objects with their beak to bother various human villagers. The village is split up into multiple areas, which each have a to-do list of objectives to accomplish, such as stealing certain objects or tricking humans into doing certain actions. When enough of these objectives are cleared (one less than the total amount present), an additional objective is added which, once cleared, allows the goose to move onto the next area. After completing four areas, the goose enters a miniature model of the village. There, the goose steals a bell before going back through the previous areas while the villagers try to stop them. In the game’s ending, it is revealed the goose had previously stolen many bells prior to the game's events. There are also several hidden optional objectives, many of which require traversing between multiple areas or completing an area within a time limit."

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I also made a link to a video of 11 minutes of gameplay from "Untitled goose game" I got from YouTube click here.

Resources Required

When researching essential Resources I would require I looked up "Resources required when making a 3D game" and I ended up coming across a person called David Arcila , The curator of the ZEEF game development research page, click here for information on page. He mentions the seven essential resources to have when making a 3D game. These are the following.

• Resource one: Lay out the plan so that you can do things such as define what your game is about.
• Resource two: Tell a good story using things such as twine as it allows you to structure your narrative in a visual structure.
• Resource three: Get Agile using a project management system to allow you to organise tasks and get things done.
• Resource four: Tools using programs such as Unity  to start  allowing yourself to make a 3D based game using the engines tools.
• Resource five: Prototypes will allow you to track your games progress, as well as to allow the creator or creators of the game to progress independently.
• Resource six: Audio and sound  as it can improve a game greatly to the user/player of the game.
• Resource seven: Knowledge as it is important to learn as you go along from mistakes to things that progress the progress of making your 3D game.

I found this list of resources to be very helpful in giving me a better idea of resources required and to be considered when making a 3D game or any game for that matter. You can find the page I gathered the information from here

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Overall I feel this blog was very helpful to write out as it gave me a look into  new perspectives that I did not consider especially in the piece i read about resource. I hope you all enjoy reading this as much as I did.

"unity tutorial 03 "

Unity Clock Exercise

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The Task for this week on Unity was to Build a clock using simple objects. I made the body of the clock by using the 3D shape of a cylinder and by removing its Cylinder (mesh filter) in the inspector menu. This overall helped in the process of making/form the shape of the clock. I personally found this weeks unity tutorial better than the previous two as I found it quite difficult to keep up with the Jimmy Vegas videos, were as this way was easier to keep it as it was just following the instructions from the document.  I am however still finding it find getting use to using scripts in Unity but am being optimistic that I will catch on soon enough. One more thing I m finding difficult getting use to is the controls in unity as for zooming in and out and moving up and down.

Overall this week made me feel better about unity as I have been struggling mainly in that part since starting back however. I still do not know how all the tools and settings work but feel I am am genuinely learning more as i go along with each week. I also place an image below i took with my phone camera of the program  while being made in Unity.

Dillon Eagers "Games MDA"

Games MDA

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The point of this weeks reading was to learn about MDA which stands for " Mechanics, Dynamics and Aesthetics". This is a formal approach to understanding games one which attempts to bridge the gap between the following.

• Game Design
• Game Development
• Game criticism 
• Technical Game Research

This brief also goes onto detail on establishing their design counterparts. these counterparts can be seen below.

• Mechanics: Describes the particular component of the game through data representation and algorithms.
• Dynamics: which describes the players run time behaviors while  acting on players inputs to  each others outputs as time goes on.
• Aesthetics : this describes the emotional responses left by the player. (When describing the aesthetics of a game these are things to consider Sensation, Fantasy , Narrative , Challenge, Fellowship, Discovery, Expression and Submission).

1. Links to external site 1 here MDA framework by LeBlanc, Hunicki and Zabek. This link was very helpful in breaking down each of the things to consider in game MDA , as well as establishing their design counterparts.     
2.   Links to external site 2 here Designing to promote Intentional Play by Clint Hocking. Besides his Unique joke at the start I did like mainly how clink went into detail explaining the definition of words such as Intentionality and using examples through his playthroughs of games such as Donkey Kong 
3. Link to external site 3 here A brief description of MDA by Gamedeveloperstips.com. The reason I chose this one if it to me was much more clear and easy to understand the mechanics, Dynamics and aesthetics descriptions of Game Design. I overall felt it to be very much the same as the first link I read on MDA Framework by LeBlanc,Hunicki and Zabek.