with the original plan being about learning different culture around the world the player as going to us the character to go thought the different culture and learn about the game with text and a voice over but since my plan didn’t goes as well I have to change my approach and change it to show different land mark around the world with some fact about them in the game
so now that I have change my idea to famous landmark I need to do some landmark
while think and talking about it with a number of people I needed to make a choice on what land mark that i should add and what i should remove.
while asking around to friends family and classmates some of there choices were these below
Eiffel tower, big ben, leaning tower of Pisa, the great pyramids of Giza, buri Khalifa and others
after some thinking I have decided to start with something local to my home country then go into the 7 wonder of the world and after that make our way back to England
the reason that i choses these land make is because i wanted to have many land mark around the world and some of the choices that i was given were go but most were located in Europe and i want to have the player character feel like there are exploring thew world
these are the famous landmark that I choice to do are these below
1 Stonehenge
2 colosseum
it is said that the Rome colosseum is build between 70 AD and 80 AD and it could sat 50,000 spectators that sit to watch gladiators event and other puplic events like animal hunt and executions
3 Petra
declare as a world heritage site in 1985 and was the capital of the Nabataean empire of king era toss the 4th
4 Taj mahal Agra
taj mahal is said to be build in between the years 1632 to 1648 and made out of marble and represent a number of different architectural style such as Persian, Islamic, Turkish and Indian
5 Great Wall of China
the great wall of china is said that it is a stone and earth fortification created to project the boarders of the Chinese empires from invading Mongols and it is said to reach 4000 mile making it the world longest manmade structure
6 El Castillo
el castillo is place in the ruins of city in chichen irza as is the most recognisable ruins as a astronomical observatory
7 machu picchu
machu picchu is located in Peru in between to Andean peaks and it as been thought by scholar to have been a archaeological centre for near by capital for Cusco
8 Christ the Redeemer
the statue loom on Corcovado mountain over the city of Rio de Janeiro and been standing since 1931 it stands as tall as 130 foot and made out of concreate and soapstone
9 big ben/Elizabeth Tower
big ben is what most people think the famous clock tower is call but big ben is the name of the bell that hangs inside of the clock tower
the fact under the image are the fact that i’m going to use in the game
the land mark that are shown are place in different order for a reason as we at start in England and we slowly make our way around starting in my home country in England and we make our way around the world
i research the location of the land mark and what is the location on the place around the world following the black trail and we end the game with big ben and as the voice over says how we run out of times as a little joke as we stop at the world famous clock
with the black trail we the character slowly make our way around the world seeing landmark around the world and we make our way back to England where we started
I have ask a number of people that if there know the name or if there recognise the landmark or if there know the name of the land mark
the total number of people that was ask was 6+ people and ask if there recognise the landmark/ name of the place or if the don’t recognise the landmark, over all there is a total of 9 landmark and the total number of landmark recognise was 7 of 9 being with the land mark most being Petra and machu piccu that people don’t recognise.
the total number of landmark that was name correctly was 5 of 9 with the name of the landmark being most common was big ben, Wall of China, Taj mahal, colosseum, Stonehenge and with the name of the of the landmark in London being most commonly know as big ben but the turn name is Elizabeth Tower as “big ben”is called the ben in the clock.
because of this when i make the land mark design i could add the place names near the drawing as to so that the people will know the name place of the landmark .
the next thing that i research was the game that i took inspiration for and the first one was “LittleBigPlanet” and for this research i played though a few levels in a few level and even record the first level as to show evidence that i did play thought it and the game was LittleBigPlanet™ 3 as there are many game by the creator so i choses this one because i have access to the game and can easily get footage
while recording the first level i also took many screen shot of level design that i like and would like to take the inspiration for
with this image i like the layers effect that the image above given and i would like to add that kind of effect to my games with the character walking in front or behind the asset in the level and with this it also gives me idea on what to do in the surrounding area
this is another image that i choose i took a liking to as the housing in the back ground is something that i would like to take in my game as well
with this image i really like the trees and the mountain int the back ground and i like to do something similar in my games
also while look at the game it was mostly positivity review
an review that got my attention was one user by the name Aaliyah mack and he says
An Amazing game to play, You could make Movies, films, Games, etc. THERE IS A LOT TO DO in this game. You can customize your character, Roleplay & Go online. AND THERE’S STORY MODE!!! The Story sometimes is Funny.
Many things to create & Explore! There are even horror levels, holiday levels, to many to even say.
Creating NPCs, customizing, and adding Voices to them is my favorite part. You could add sound affects for your NPCs or whatever. SO MUCH TO DO IN JUST ONE GAME!
People make new community levels EVERYDAY. So play the game, It’s worth it.
in this short piece of words we get a clear idea on what is great about the game and i really make me feel like i want to experience the game all over again
another thing that i took research in was another game called paper Mario and the reason of this is that i am doing a pop up game and paper Mario is similar to what i’m doing in turn of design with how simple the design is
the screen shot was a quickly taken in the video above and i want to try to do different layers with the asset design
another thing that i did research on was a game i was told about and that was trine 3 this is the video below
the one thing that i took from this game was the colour uses in the game because the colour remind me of an old book and i want to take that aspect in the game
after i completely a basic concept of the game i had three and the three people and there name was ibraheem, suhayb and naseem and i screen record the footage but could not get audio as some file that i recorded on was corruptbut here are the footage
this here is what ibraheem played though my game and he and said that it was visually good and that he like how some asset and in the for-ground and back ground and he said that one thing that show be improve is adding more landmarks and how he miss some invisible boxes to activate the command to make the scene rotates
this is suhayb and he had a lot to comment on like how some landmark looks and he like the house of parliament is design and how it feel similar to little big planet and he also comment on how i uses different tree style and using the same tree is more repetitive and the one thing that he is willing the change about it is the colour as it look to bland
this is naseem and he comment on the graphic look good and he like how the user can take there own time and one thing that he comment on how it different thing should be different colour
after all of these one thing that i realise is that the people misses the invisible box to tell the scene to either to pop up or pop down so if i was able to re-work im would make the invisible box taller so that the player jump it will still make contact with the box to set the command to rotates