Game Ideas/types etc...

Games Types

Platform Games (Braid)
Educational (spelling, maths etc GCSE Bitesize Games)
First Person Shooter (e.g. Call of Duty)
First Person (eg Zelda)
8 Bit Sega type games (sonic, Street Fighter etc)
Puzzles (sudoku etc)
stratergy games (e.g.World of Warcraft)

We thought of the game a part of an advertising ploy, advertising the website or some sort of product, this is formally known as Advergaming. We had the idea about advertising either the website or a product. A good example of this the Rizla game. Its a remake of the original Pac Man, using rizla skins and rizla packs.
Rizla also presents a great idea, when you log on, you can choose which skins you use, each represents a different colour when chosen your skin and go into the website the colours on the website will be the colour of the skin you chosen. We had an idea of doing this but with characters and each character have a different background and feel to it.
We thought about a platform type game set in space, where you can choose a character to use in the game. Im going to be creating some characters in illustrator and will be on here soon.

Hello Game.

Okay so with the authorship unit out of the way we start thinking about the game project, its a 12 week group project with 5 IMP's, We are too use Flash or Unity to create a one level game, its a long project, so it needs to be really good. We have a presentation on 10th Decemeber, so we aim to have our idea down by Thursday 3rd December, then have a week to rehearse for it.
Im really enthausiastic about this project, and everyone I have spoken to in the 2nd/3rd years really enjoyed this. It will be good to gain new skills and work with people I havent before.
In the coming posts I will write stuff about what timne of games there is, advergaming (advertising a product or item through the game), examples of games, our game ideas, production and eventually the finished game. Happy reading.

One Last Thing.

Heres my website!!
http://impserver.bournemouth.ac.uk/~gcorlett

The Station - Final Outcome

http://impserver.bournemouth.ac.uk/gcorlett

Above is a picture of the different parts of my finished site. Im not totally happy with it, but I'm just glad that I got it working. After many hours at uni 24 hours at uni the day before the deadline I got it done, I'm now just hoping that it gives me a pass. Given the time I gave myself to do the project the pictures in previous posts were unrealistic, and too ambitious given my php ability. I have learnt alot in this project and I hope to develop my skills further in the future projects too. I had alot of trouble getting my design to fit on smaller resolution screens properly, so im the end i scrapped the initial design and used the pier in the top banner. It wasnt ideal and I was pretty gutted that i had to compromise the project due to having to rush through it. I think the end prodect is minimilist but abit plain, I think I could of tied harder and also started the project earlier that I did. But given the time I left myself to do it I'm quite pleased with the end result not in its aesthetics but in it's ability to function as a working site. I had alot of trouble with the coding on the edit profile and upload features, due to time I didnt have the time for image upload and gallery features, however the video upload and feature video shows them that I could make it given the time.
Okayy so I think I have covered everything, Im just glad this project is over and am very much looking froward to the Gaming project :D

THE STATION Profile Page

Okay so heres a mock up of what I want the profile page to look like on the station. It has their profile picture, info about them, their uploaded media and their favourites/ recently watched videos Here it is:

The Station Profile Page

Mock up website designs

Okayyy. No more coding screen shots to put on here today, BUT fear not I have some website designs i did in photshop. I have used the same template for the back ground in each. I quite like them and have appeared to be popular with my course mates. I do like the design, it has the Bournemouth Pier in it, so it sticks to the brief. Your better just seeing them here they are:

The Station Home Page

The Station Register Page

The Station Video

The Station Picture Display

P to the H to the P

Login-do.php

Login.php (Design View)

Login.php

Userlist.php

user.php

PHP PHP PHP or words to that effect

Okayy. Today I started the task of coding THE STATION. I got the process, register and connection pages pretty much coded. I have taken snap shots of them and here they are.

Process.php

register.php (design view)

register.php

connect.php

I will have more on here tomorrow plus some more ideas for the website design. Peace Out!

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