PHILLIP MAVRONICHOLAS GDA YEAR 2 BLOGS

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Feb 8
1 min

Trailer:

his is a short trailer to show the style of game that I have outlined in my GDD. Making use of my developmental sketches and models it...

Jan 24
1 min

Invention Blueprints:

To give the concept of how the inventions will work and delve further into this idea I made some blueprint sketches of some items your...

Jan 23
2 min

Logo:

when making the design for my logo I wanted to encompass other elements from my development so I started off taking my the name I chose...

Jan 23
2 min

Environment Design:

The environment design for my game is based on the favelas in Brazil, this for two main reasons firstly, the narrative implications of...

Jan 22
1 min

Character Design:

This post will cover the design features of the players character in my game. This is Darren Hitchfeilds he is the owner of a self run...

Jan 21
2 min

New 3D environment:

When taking all of these research into account for making my new 3D scene I found that the recreation of the specific arcuvteture of...

Jan 21
3 min

Core Mechanics and gameplay loop:

The core gameplay loop of my game will consist of three parts: Traversal of the city Repairing broken objects Inventing & Upgrading your...

Jan 20
1 min

Game Rating, Platform requirements & Intended Audience :

The game will be 7+ PEGI age rating as well as E for everyone for the ESBR rating. This will mean the game will also be available to the...

Jan 20
2 min

Game Overview:

Repairman is a game where you will take control of a handyman called Darren Hitchfield, he lives in a tightly packed city called Lenquall...

Jan 20
1 min

User Interface:

The UI in the game is going to to be relatively minimal with an objective labeled on the side of the screen and then the abilities on the...

Jan 19
2 min

Finalised Invented items:

After having a rough idea of what items I wanted the player to make I did some brain storming of how them could be upgraded and what...

Jan 17
1 min

Researching traversal through a favela:

when looking for inspiration for the movement throughout the foreign environment I looked for a YouTube clip of parkour in the Favelas of...

Jan 15
1 min

Favela Structure Research:

Here I'm going to show sets of pictures I found when searching for images of Favela on Google images in attempts to create a general...

Jan 15
1 min

Repair Research and ideas:

I wanted to look into various ways games and other media have made repairing things interesting as engaging for the audience so I can use...

Jan 14
1 min

Research For character design:

When trying to create the players character I wanted to look into the style of clothes used as well as the safety equipment they would...

Jan 13
2 min

Environment Development:

After making my 3D prototype scene I wanted to look more into various urban environment, different city, towns and buildings that could...

Jan 11
3 min

Researching Design of Upgrades in Games:

Here I will be looking into a few different ways your items can be upgraded throughout different games. This can be weapons, items and...

Jan 10
2 min

Inventing and developing items:

After completing repair jobs you can use money earned for research and development on new inventions. These will allow the player to add...

Jan 9
2 min

Gamification of Architecture in video games:

In a variety of modern open world sandbox video games you use your environment as the traversable game world, when these game worlds are...

Dec 10, 2020
2 min

Repairing mechanic development:

This was the central idea that I chose to make my game around, from the beginning I was wanted to do some sort of urban traversal, but I...

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