Introduction
Arena of the Bored Kings is a first-person, fantasy, split screen, arena duel where two combatants battle to the end for two ‘bored’ kings’ enjoyment, or rather, to sate their boredom. The world is whimsical medieval fantasy with vibrant colours, followed by grim undertones and humour. It’s this duality that…
Introduction
Good Morning — Revisited is a rework of a previous title I had shipped three years ago for a student project. The game’s core feeling was to remind those who played it of ‘home’, which was whatever that meant to them and draw them in using a feeling that would…
Today marks the end of week seven, study week for me. Which means that by next Wednesday my team and I must have a completed beta build of the game with all core mechanics working and a start-to-finish. Which for me means a gigaton of designing the story, room scenery…
A few weeks have passed since the creation of our first project, the Super Mario Bros world 1–1 recreation. Immediately after the completion of that we were tasked with our next project, the creation of a ‘video board game’ which focused around playing a board game with video elements to…
The end of week two has arrived and for me and many of my other colleagues, that means the crunch time is over and the dawning sun that is the spaghetti-mess of releasing our games to the rest of the class for playtesting has begun to rise over the hills…
What do I want to make out of Studio 2?
Studio 2 for me will be the most important trimester yet since it directly relates to my main aspiration of creating a game of such tremendous inspiration and moral clairvoyance that it changes those who play it to be better people (though that’s subjective, they’re simple morals like “kindness should…
The game I’ve recently been developing, known as ‘Seen’, follows the same general theme as a few of my other games: narrative. As outlined earlier in my ‘An Analysis of Emily is Away’ blog, the game will be themed around Facebook’s web app and the messaging system they use. The…
Emily is Away is a single player text adventure that relies heavily on the player’s own subjective interpretation of how to treat a situation and how they react personally.
The game is based around which chat options the player will decide to choose to say which will make ‘Emily’ react…
Symphony is a top-down, arcade shooter-like, music-based video game that manipulates the songs you give it and turns them into evil, characteristic challenges for you, the player, to overcome using their wit, skill, and a hell of a lot of reflexes. The main selling point of ‘Symphony’ is that it…
I have been studying game developing at SAE for two trimesters now and I’m close to a full year come the end of this trimester. Throughout that time I have learned a great deal of many things, scripting, level design, the theory behind product development, production in teams, etc. …
