games

Pass the assignment

The game is four player game. Four player sit together. Then one of the players will be given a brief , then the player can pass the brief whoever the player wants. Continue like. Then at some moment, the brief will got you and the player who got caught will lose mark. The others will got mark.

Keep up with the lecturer.

Background is the lecturer is speaking (teaching) to us. We need record everything the lecturer said. The lecturer will talk faster and faster. The players need get busier and busier.

Rag week staggel.

Background: this game is like during the rag week, people go out and drink. When people got drunk they will try to keep the balance. So the game is trying to keep the balance for the drunk people

9am rush

Every day, people who have car are worry about to get a space to park. So they come to college 5 to 9am in the morning which is before the first class to fight for a parking space.

Chair bash

In the noon students in dkit have a break for lunch. As we know that the chair(place) in canteen is limited so student has to rush to fight for the last place for themselves.

Facebook cop.

As we know facebook is forbidden in the library. There will be a person in the library walk around to patrol see is anyone who is logging on the facebook. So student who wants to log on facebook has to move around to avoid the person who will catch you. The player control the averter to dodge the person to avoid being caught.

my role

Pang Chenhao(NEO)

In this project my role is the programmer. My aim in this project is to make the program for games and make sure that the games work fine.

After I got this role our team discuss that we are going to make the games based on flash cs4. We are going to make the program on flash actionscript 3.0. I began to research the program that we need to make the game. A part of the research is from the book which is the adobe flash cs4 professional, classroom in a book. There are lots of scripts in that book and there is the explanation as well. So I can understand the program and use it easily. Another way to look for the research is the internet. I found that one website is very nice which is www.actionscript.org . This website has a lot of resource of ActionScript. So I can find what the project needs to put the code in our project.

For example one of our game is called “pass the assignment”, that game is like pass the bomb. Four players will sit together when the game begin. Then one of the player will be given a “brief”, then the player who has the “brief” can pass it to anyone else who play the game. So continue like this. At some moment the “brief” will got you and the player who got caught will lose mark the other will got mark.

For this case I asked ken that I can Boolean variables for each player, each key. Than I can say if for example every player has 4 bottoms, one is the player itself. Another 3 bottoms stand for the other 3 players. So if I variable one bottom say if when that bottom is pressed is true the other were fault the brief pass to player 2. So something like this. I will also need to make a motion tween for the action that the brief pass from player 1 to player 2. So something work like this.

I will continue to do the research for each game and make the program one by one.

Draft of Theme

Theme of Studentheadz

Our Aim is to create a fun interactive collection of multiplayer mini games for students.
The theme of our game is college life, we plan on creating a game based on our daily encounters at college. Here at Dkit students often can forget that college life is supposed to be fun, these days are meant to be the best days of our life yet we spend them worrying and stressing about our academic year. As creative multimedia student s we sometimes can lose our ability to enjoy the creative process of our course as deadlines linger. This project we want to bring back the fun in not only our course but in everyone that interacts with it.
Our theme being college life itself, we have decided to create a college feel to it. We will portray this through our graphics and our hardware. Also the mini games are quick and fun and each user will be working in teams of four making it competitive as is our regular college life. From grades to computers in the library we are constantly competing.
The visuals of our game will be the carrolls building itself, we want to create this envoirnment as it is recognisable for students.
For each mini game we have chosen encounters that students face daily and we plan on making them fun and enjoyable. These games are as follows; Facebook Cop, Pass the Assignment, Drunken Stagger, Chair bash, 9am Rush and Keep up with the Lecturer.

For Script, Any thoughts on it? Everyone think it's enough?

My Role

Role: Designer for Studentheadz
Aim: My aim in this project is to create graphics for our game which collaborate with our chosen theme.
After chosen this role I began researching different gaming graphics and the styles in which they were created. For the production of the game itself I will be designing the Logo, any promotional Posters we plan on distributing to make awareness about our project. In order to complete this task I will be researching different examples of posters that work well at present. As all of the members in our group agreed we really wanted to make our game fun and enjoyable I have to create the graphics to work hand in hand with what we want the user to feel.
For this project I will be sketching up the Character and scanning them onto the computer, I will be doing this as I feel it is much better as I can then use Flash or Photoshop to trace over them. All my designs will be new, memorable and will match the visual identity of our game.
As well as the game design I will also be working collectively with Paul Gneockey our hardware designer. Paul and I both feel we can use both our skills in order to create the hardware for the complete look of our game.
As I create each element of design for each mini game I will be getting feedback from my group. Each member will let me know their thoughts just so we are all in agreement that they are happy with the quality of the work.

StudentHeadz Logo (prototype)

Script Part 1 (Brief Description/overview of the Project)

StudentHeadz

What??

Our project is based on the college year, the idea is a series of mini games based on selected enconters that students of DKIT encounter on a daily basis. Not so much the problems they encounter but issues that are apart of life around and within the college everyday. We plan for the games to be both collaborative and multiplayer(4 players), we decided to go in this direction because after extensive research into game design, specifically mini games, we came to the conclusion that games are better when they are either competitive against another human being’s or when they are collaborative with another human being’s, due to this fact we decided to incorpoate both. For example one of the games that we plan to design is “The 9am Rush”, the idea behind this game is that it is 5 to 9, the four players enter the car park at the bottom of the screen, there is only one car parking space at the top of the screen, (this is a common situation that students do find themselves in, in the college)

How??
We plan to have different forms of interaction for each game, some may overlap. Using actionscript and illustrations designed in Adobe Illustrator, we plan to design these mini games based on the daily encounters of the students. The idea is for the games to be as physical as possible and the design is planned to engross the user as much as we can. We are going to build physical controllers and through keyboard hacking we will program them ourselves in compliance with our games.

Why??
We like this idea and want to go with the idea because we are the target audience and strongly believe that the target audience will thoroughly enjoy this project. They will be able to engage in it much beter than any other game as they can relate to it on a personal level. It is what they go through, see and deal with on a daily basis, combining this with the fact that collabrative and multiplayer games proved to be the most enjoyable we think our target audience will really enjoy this project.

Script & Meeting

Hey guys,

We have to have a meeting asap. We need to discuss what roles we are taking for the script, There are a number of areas that we could split up and take, but we all need to sit down and talk to each other and decide who is taking what part, so that confusion (and then, duplicate copies of a section) is avoided. We have plenty of designs, and games etc. we can easily bulk this script out. it is doable, its just daunting to start. Everyone should have at least their part that we talked about last week done.

Me and Paul have the description of what must be in the script, so we need to meet up. Don't be afraid to txt each other too, if u cant come to a class, txt me.. or if your just stuck with a piece of work, or don't know what to do just let us know :)

New Year, New Start

Hey Guys, Happy new year, long time no post everyone needs to start coming in to classes. the people who were in today know, that we dont have to go to every class in the timetable. We should go to 2 classes each (at least), so then there is someone else who can help with that particular area. The way I have devised it is:

Monday - K.Nolan, Interactivity. (James, Paul, Sammy)

Tuesday - J.J, Graphics/Animation. (Paul, Sammy, Neo)

Wednesday - K.Sloane, Programming. (James, Neo)

Thursday - P.McCaul, Audio (Tunde)

This isn't written in stone, you can go to extra classes if you want, I just thought these were our strongest areas, and the roles on which we agreed, But You have to go these classes at least, if not we will fall behind. I think that Tunde is string enough for audio that only one person can go. but you will need to go to the class. Check your timetables, and see when the classes are that you need to go. We will start 0n the script very soon, but we need to have a meeting with Caroline ASAP, and just for ourselves to know where we stand and to refresh our memory, because im sure everyone forgot over the break (i know i did). I think we should have meetings with Caroline on the Wednesday, this will give us a chance to meet up after the weekend before we meet with her to discuss our progress. Comments? What do you guys think?

Script

Hi guys I can't make it up today or tomorrow I have nobody to mind Adam, I think you's should really have a meeting.. Define whats needed in the script and break it up.. A piece for each person!! Can you's just blog what you need me to do and I will do it at home... Cheers