During the fourth week
I continued to work on research for both the game and my research report, some
of which crossed with each other. I have found this to be useful as I can tie
in my research for the game design project with the research report. As major
part of our project idea was to bring a western style to a Japanese RPG
mechanic, I did research into RPGs as a genre. I gathered examples of both
Western and Eastern RPGs and wrote about the differences between them. What
makes the two genres of role-play games different from each other? I decided
that I wanted to write my report on my progress in developing a westernised
style to a JRPG as it would tie in with my studio work and also give me a
chance to analyse my own work during the process.
At the beginning of
week five, Sarah one of our team members dropped out of the group, as she
wanted to take her story and focus on making it a interactive narrative. Being
five weeks into the project, this was quite a large bump in the road for Jack
and me, as we had to come up with an entire new narrative for our game in one
night. We simply didn’t have any more time to spend on it other than that. We
kept Jack’s mechanics and the art style research that I had done, so not
everything was wasted. I then went back and altered my learning agreement
accordingly and finished it ready to hand in.
The new narrative that
we came up with was an idea of an underground civilisation that had lived in
this giant country sized construct for thousands of years, to escape the ice
age and constant snow storm that raged on the planets surface. There would be
multiple races each having unique characteristic making them good at different
things. The lower down the
construct you are the better off you are. If you have to money to be able to
live lower down, where it was warmer and less under threat from surface
creatures, then you are lucky. The people towards the top of the construct live
in cold cramped conditions and don’t have access to all things the lower levels
might. Our protagonist would come from the higher levels, but his fortunes
change and him and his family are able to move down a level. There are still
some things that need working out but, we managed to come up with a base to
work with.
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