- Reflect on your research into Sound, design and Interactivity, and how it informed the development of your final idea.
my sound design research didn’t help much with my final idea as the guide i found was mostly discussed and tutorialized music and 3d sound creation which wasn’t much help in my 2d action game, also my sound analysis of dead space wasn’t much help because dead space is a 3d horror game which uses sound to create atmosphere and scare the player, which is not what i am trying to do in my game.
my interactivity research was mildly help full when planning my final game as it gave me an idea of the sort of controls i needed to implement but it was also not very helpful as both of the games were 3d and a different genre to my game with fifa being a sports game and call of duty being a shooter.
my Visual design research was very helpful for my game specifically when designing my enemies as i chose to look at the visual design of DOOM 216 which has amazing visual designs and the demons from that game have a similar design to the idealized design of the enemies from my game but mine will look more aquatic, however the character design from DOOM 2016 wan’t very helpful as the characters in DOOM 2016 are very sci-fi in design to fit the games theme and genre.
Overall my research in the section could have been focused more in the genre and theme of my game as well as this i could have cast a broader net when analyzing games and looked and thee three aspects for more games and lots of different genres.
- Reflect on your learning and skills – What you have done and why you have done it?
During this project I have developed my skills in Photoshop which will be very helpful in later assignments and in later life if I decide to continue with this line of work, I have also developed my sketching skills by practicing at home and by producing various test pieces also at home. during this project i have also learnt a lot such as how to create a functioning main menu with various menus, have also learnt how to code sliders for volume and other things. I have also learnt how to mix and implement sound into unity as well as this I have also learnt how to create my own songs and background music for games and other media.
During this project I have created
- How effectively did you work with sound? Was it successful and why? What could you do to improve it?
- How effectively did you design and create graphics? Was it successful and why? What could you do to improve it?
- How effectively did you work to create interactivity within your game (programming and UI design? Was it successful and why? What could you do to improve it?
- What have you learnt during this project?
- Reflect on peer and tutor feedback.
Louie Bailey, games design 