Additional Learning

Future plans and Recent Development

Through this project i have done in my spare time i have learnt a lot and expect to learn much more, to improve the quality of the work i am producing for this RPG project and for other benefits i went to life drawing classes, and did studies into the images and location i want to imitate, whilst trying to create this game design i have been researching into games of the genre and game structures in general, I started off with Final Fantasy 7 and then start to branch out to playing Runescape also which teaches me a lot about the maths of leveling up (as well as playing it for another personal research project,) as well as researching many others. More recently I have read Robert B. Musburger's "An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media" (Scriptwriting Essentials Across the Genres) Focal Press, 2007, Elsevier Inc. I have been reading parts of this book especially the games chapter, it nicely covers the industry's significance and history, although I could question some of its game references. The last part of the chapter covers the process and requirements for producing a game step by step and how to properly prepare you game for others to Analise either outside in or inside the work group as well as how to deal with common problems and prevent mistakes. One thing in particular that stood out for me when reading through this chapter was that it mentioned making a "base line" for my game, something I apparently should have made near the beginning of the production process. So after a few sessions of work we finally made one we think fits into the criteria, "A fantasy-horror set in the near future on a small island off the coast of England, about a war veteran re-living the murders he committed through illusions in his mind." despite the fact that we think it works I'm worried that it spoils some of the biggest and most important plot twists in the game, I'm not sure if they are suppost to do that.

For the future I have made arrangements with Oli Bartman who does photography at the uni and is Jack Boyle's cinemaphograher (another student at uni,) I arranged with him a few trips over the next year up until the end of summer to visit places in the UK that looks like the places in trying to imitate and are visually inspiring or can teach me about landscapes, whilst there we will be taking pictures and i will be doing some sketches, as well as all this we will both benefit from imporoving our skills, expecially about outdoor enviroments. Also my plans for this project for the future are to develop the long overdue character profiles and other further detail, and most importantly to get as much out of this as possible, even if I dont produce it fully (which I don't think I will, well not right now.)