Final Year, Games and Writing...

This being my final year of uni, it is now time to get very serious with my work. Hence this blog to get my face out there but to also see if I can entertain the masses (or the very few) who visit my page. Now in the final year of my course we are tasked to write a dissertation and to also design and create a game. Anything from interactive storytelling, 2D/3D or another FPS that seems to be popping up nowadays. I have joined up with two course mates: Matt and Beth and we have been swimming around the idea pool for around two weeks and we finally came up with an idea based on popular opinion. Matt has posted the ideas building up to the final one, this is from his, so don't forget to see what he has to say on things (and keep a better track on the project than I will). click to visit his blog here.

The three of us now, Me, Beth and Alan have spent the last few days deciding on our idea, having spent the last two weeks discussing ideas and the whole summer thinking independently about the project ahead we had a lot to go over and sieving through the early ideas to find common ground is a large part of how we ended up with a group of three from an originally planned group of 6 or 7, we all just want something different at the end of the year, it's a commitment that most people rightly didn't take lightly.

And so on to the idea, what are we going for? Well we came up with a few fairly unique mechanics through our early meetings. Some like the "Imagination Field" idea were just a bit beyond our technical scope and we had trouble framing it in a story that we all liked. Others like the "Bird Idol" were far too much story and not enough play. One idea i had early on and then developed a little with everyone else was the idea of a fantasy RPG from the point of view of a travelling salesman, the idea coming from thinking about flipping conventions and looking at stories from other points of view. We also had a lot of ideas focusing around tower defense mechanics and with the final member of the larger planned group breaking off for for a solo run of the year we decided to just pitch all of our ideas to the class and see which one gathered the best reaction. We are now building on a twist on conventional tower defense games and the travelling salesman idea.

 So yeah, i'll be putting up some doodles soon. Once i've deemed them worthy of internet status.