LO4:Production schedual

LO4: Budget

LO4: Game Consept

The main concept of the game is that it is a FPS online battle arena using free running and voice commands. The game consists of multiple game modes and focuses strongly on realistic physics where we will be using Nvidia PhysX. The game is centred around the theme of materialising weapons and armour by speaking so if you are in a close quarters engagement you might want to have a shotgun so you would say materialise shotgun. I hate myself a lot and the idea now in retrospect seems dumb.

The games story is that the world has been thrown into a downhill spiral through a corrupt government that has forced the world to split into three factions (names still undecided) These factions constantly go to war and fight over territories only using their most elite men because no normal man would stand a chance. The military prior to this had developed a new device to allow for any materials within your armoury to be spawned in front of you, these factions have managed to get their hands on this device however it is rather unrefined and can only summon a certain amount per battle. The factions will be at war constantly one upping the others trying to gain leeway in this war for world domination.

The game consists of these three factions

Faction one
This faction spawned from former Russia and Ukraine and spans across the idea that all parties should be treated equally and spans from the original Idea of  Communism however like most of the world human greed corrupts this idea and makes it so the faction falls into the poorer of them having unrefined military weaponry.
 Pros
- Fearless military
- Strongest (physically)
 Cons
-Corrupt government
-Weak weaponry

Faction Two
Spans from the Americas and has a strong sense of military concepts however drugs and murder are a strong aspect within their society along with having conflicts within the areas formally known as South America and North America. The North is far more stable and has less of a drug problem however the faction is massively in debt and has little to no funding for anything other than military. 
Pros
- Strongest Weaponry
- Most Resources
Cons
- Will often end up fighting people within your own faction
- A huge drug problem meaning that often you will be docked resources due to being caught in possession.

Faction Three
This spawns from the Asian side of the world however it only includes the countries that were able to survive the first blitz witch include Japan, China, North Korea and South Korea. This faction differ each other from their countries and run under similar  governments to what was previously in their countries. they rely mostly on each other for trade and have minor disputes between each other but mostly on a governmental level. Due to the war they lost most of their military aspects and population and as such have the smallest army.
Pros
-Economically Stable
-Most advanced technology
Cons
-Minor disputes which can end with a docking of materials for war
-Smallest army.

LO4: Treatment

LO4: Concept Art

LO4: Mood Board

LO4:pitch

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LO3:Review

Let me tell you a little Fable

 Fable Anniversary is an action, adventure, RPG game that is set in an open world. It is in the conventions action because there are multiple weapons in the game and different types of enemy’s that differ in strength. It is in the conventions of adventure because you can go to most place with in the game after you finish the tutorial. The aspects for the RPG side is that there are many ways to build up your character. There are three different types of character disciplines is the games term for it is strength (That is there term for melee), manna (That is magic) and skill (That is ranged combat and stealth). There is also a karma system in the game to further enhance the RPG aspects.

 I would not say there is an age rang for this game as there is such wide group of people who could like it. I suppose you could say it was aimed at a younger audience because of the art style. The game would also be suited to a younger audience as there is a very silly humour to it. But the reason I think that the game is not aimed at this one age group is because there are points in the game where a younger person would not understand and or a bit too dark for them.  I do not think there is another game that is like Fable but has such a wide audience. There are game like Skyrim I could compare it to but then I could easily compare it to some like sky landers as well something really out there like Stubs the Zombie Rebel without a Pulse. It is not fitting in to a gap in the market more like filling all the possible audience member it could.  

 The first challenge on the game are enemies you will have to defeat to continue. The enemies start off with simple insects then go onto bandits and keep changing and getting harder as you prosed. There are also different methods to beating each enemy but they are not needed just help. When you accept a quest you may also take on many boast. Boast are extra challenges that will make you more money if you can complete them are lose money if you cannot.  Such as not taking any damage throw out a quest are not losing any one in an escort quest. As you kill enemy’s you will get points to spend upgrading things. The points are split into four different things general points that can be used in any category but then there are blue, red and yellow points each representing points for each skill. Red is strength blue is for will /magic and yellow is for skill, Skill is an odd skill tree to explain as it is for long rang weapons, stealth and attack spend. These colure points are for their skills and no other and can only be obtained by using there type of attack.

 The game came out for Xbox 360 and PC. I would not say the game is aimed at one platform more than another because it works well on both and there are no advantages to playing on one particle platform. 

 The character are relevant to the target audience because most of them will be like able to someone. But the main unnamed character will be liked as you may personal touches to him. But the main character who most people would like I would think is Jack of Blades because of his bad ass appears and personality. He has one of the best backstory in the games. The main character for the game fits in with the conventions because he starts of week but then grow in power and strength until he is the most power full person in the land. The main villain in the games fits in with conventions because he is made to look very power full and by the person you have to overcome and beat to get your prize.     

              

LO2: comparing reviews of different media's

The two reviews are very different the first just talks about the good and the second just looks at the bad in the game. The first review spend the first half talking about interviews with Ellen Page (The actress for the main character) and David Cage (The director of the game). In this review there was a very heavy look at the production of the game rather then the game its self. The second review talk about nearly all of the games aspect.

The first review spend the first paragraph just joking and does not really say much about it I didn't get any feel for the review as I could tell if it was making fun of the game are just trying to be funny. As for the other review I can tell what he thinks of the game from the first 20 seconds.

I think that the first review does not spend any time on the game. It talks about the Ellen Page not here character the actress here self and here feeling, thought and experiences. On the other hand the second review talks a lot about the character here journey in the game, personality, relationships and much more. The reviews are the opposites of each others. One hates it and the other doesn't love it but thinks its good but never says why.  The other says that why its bad and gives every reason under the sun.    
       

LO 1: Analysis a games studio

Sucker Punch Studios is a Limited Liability Company (This means that everyone is liable in the company if they go bust and owe money) and relatively old studio now as it was founded in 1997. They are a very successful games developer as they have only made seven games and are working on their eighth one. But all have been very well reserved and got very high ratings. They have two franchises under their belt Infamous and Sly Cooper. Both franchise have had a massive fan following and sold millions of units. The studio is confided one of Sony crown jewels along with Naughty Dog. The group started off at Microsoft but leafed to make their own games in 1997. They are now based in downtown Bellevue, Washington USA. They currently take up an entire floor of a skyscraper. It started when the founding group split from Microsoft and became Suckerpunch.   

http://www.suckerpunch.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=28  (22.02.2014)

http://www.suckerpunch.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=91 (22.01.2014)

It was rather hard to find out about the structure as there was not a lot of information on the web and even on their website and there team that did find all had wired titles for their place in the company.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hC4ZKnkRlM&list=PLA334E09752743CFF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6BQ8ddh5OY&list=PLA334E09752743CFF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrAoh22iOc&list=PLA334E09752743CFF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3R0foCjUww&list=PLA334E09752743CFF

Games that they have made

They make action adventure games. Infamous is 3^rd person, open world hero/villain game. Sly

Cooper is also 3^rd person but has a different game play focus. It is aimed at linear, stealth, platform.

They went in to a horror style DLC in infamous 2 called festival of blood. Where the main character gets turned into a vampire and has to cure himself.

Games on multiplier

Sucker Punch only made one game that was not on the PlayStation it was made in 1991 called Rocket: robot on wheels for the Nintendo 64. All of their other games where made for the PlayStation. They started off with the sly cooper franchise in 2002 for the PlayStation 2.  Even though it was Microsoft that they leafed they went on to sign a contract with Sony so that their games can only be on PlayStation and no other devise that are not owned by Sony. Sucker Punch is now owned by Sony so they are their subsidiary.

Platform Tech

There is just one input for their games and that is a controller because there is just one console it is on they do not have to code for different consoles. The games they make would not really work in any other input mode.

Regulatory bodies 

LO1:Games Analysis

Infamous 2 : Festival of Blood (PS 3 D.L.C)

Infamous 2 Festival of Blood is a third person shooter, set in an open world. I would class it as an action adventure game. Within put from other game genres like Beat ’em up. It shows stylistic conventions from the third person shooter in its own way as rather having different guns you have different ways of using you powers. The main character Cole McGrath has the ability to manipulate electricity. So his basic attack is to release a blot of electricity. This attack use the least amount of power as Cole has to store electricity in his body. He does this by sucking the electricity from other thing around him like car, power generators, lamp posts and lots of other things. There are different types of enemies that differ in difficulty. This is also a stylistic convention for third person shooter. 

The story for this DLC is that there is a yearly event called Pyro Night. When Cole and Zeke are in new moray (New Moray is based on New Orleans) they attend Pyro Night ( Pyro Night is based on Mardi Gras) Just as the night starts to pick Cole and Zeke start to hear screams from underneath the cathedral Cole goes to investigate to witch he finds multiple people laid on the floor. After healing them he is told that there are more people farther in the catacombs. He goes and finds more people but the last one attacks him. He is then dragged somewhere in the catacombs and gets his neck sliced open and his blood pores in to some corpse mouth and then the corpse snaps to life. Then bites him on his neck the more blood she drinks the more life comes back to her and she becomes young again. This turns out to be bloody Marie. Who is a vampire and then goes on to turn Cole in to a vampire. The works well for the game play because Cole now also gets the power of a vampire. This just starts off with the ability to turn in to a swarm of bat this is called shadow swarm. It is use at first to get around New Moray faster and then is later upgraded so that you can do like a charge attack with is that kills other vampires instantly. You will lose this ability the more you use it. This is shown on a blood gage where the karma level was. When it runs out you have to find someone to drink there blood and get your vampire powers back. Cole now has just till sun rise till he loses his humanity and freewill as after sunrise Bloody Marie will control him. The main reason I think they made this DLC was because at the time vampire where a big topic because of the Twilight films. There are only two other character to speak that Bloody Marie and Zeke. You will feel the need to protect Zeke as he is a very funny and likeable character. Bloody Marie on the other hand has a very condescending character so you will be looking forwards to your battle with him.

The engine that was used is a modified engine from infamous 2 the engine was never named so there is nothing to really say about it. They would have had to enhance the games engine to fit in the ability to fly. When I was playing there was never a moment where the characters or game bugged out.

Zeke is the only person who the target audience would like as Cole is a bit to plain and does not really do anything for the player to like or dislike. Blood Marie is the only villain with a name and she is just there to make you hate her. The character of Bloody Marie fits the gothic look of a vampire as she where a corset and it is all red and black. Cole fit the character of the hero as he has muscle and a deep voice and gruff as if he has been smoking for ten years.

The only challenge in the game is that you have to fight the different types of enemies in different ways like the vampire woman who teleports everywhere all the time so you cannot use the slower attacks on her because they will not hit. Then on the other hand there is an enemy called the First Born witch is a massive bat thing that that can take a lot of abuse and hit very hard. There is not much to say for different level design as most of the levels are set out side. The thing that make this DLC interesting is the vampire aspect of it this makes it different and new. The narrative and gameplay go hand in hand because Zeke is narrating over most of the game and when Cole does something Zeke narrates over it. One of the thing keeping you on your toes is that Blood Marie has sent vampire to try and kill you and test you. 

The target audience for it is infamous fans and people who like vampires thing E.G. films. There are lots of vampires in it and you play as the conduit Cole McGrath. This appeals to the target audience because you can play as a vampire. It is hard to compare it to other games as games that are based on vampires are far and few between. But DLC like Skyrim’s dawn guard where you play as a vampire hunter or a vampire lord but the ways you play are very different so it is hard to compare.              

The games it is just for Sony devices because the studio signed a contract so they get paid more for it and get more funding for it but it can only come out on Sony devices.    

     

                 Fable Anniversary (Xbox 360)

Fable Anniversary is an action, adventure. It is also an RPG game that is set in an open world. It is in the conventions action because there are multiple weapons in the game and different types of enemy’s that differ in strength. It is in the conventions of adventure because you can go to most place with in the game after you finish the tutorial. The aspects for the RPG side is that there are many ways to build up your character. There are three different skills are disciplines is the games term for it. There is also a karma system in the game to further enhance the RPG aspects.    

The story resoles its self around an unnamed child who is trying to get some money together to buy his sister something for her birthday. But after accomplishing this task his village is attacked by bandits. With no warriors in the village it get decimated very quickly. It turns out that the bandits where looking for the boy and his family. His farther is killed when the bandits reach their home but the mother and sister are tortured to give up the boy’s location. (The boy is hiding in the woods at this point watching his village burn down)  When the boy thinks its safe he goes to find his family to witch he finds his farther body and as he cry’s a bandit sees the boy and goes to kill him. The boy is very lucky because at this point a very powerful mage hero appears and kills the bandit with lightning. The boys savour turns out to be Maze the leader of the hero’s guild. Who then takes the boy away from the village and make him a student at the heroes guild as there is nowhere for the boy to go now. The boy then goes on to spend the rest of his young life training and learning so that he can become like Maze who is now his mentor. Shortly after the boy becomes a full-fledged hero he receives news off Mazes that his sister may still be alive and he goes off to find her. There are is lots more to tell but you will have to play the game for yourself to find that out. The story and gameplay go hand in hand for the opening. It does this well because rather than just teach it gives you a brief statement on something and then tell you what happens as you do it. A good example is how it teaches you the karma system in the game. As I said before there is A bit where you have to get money to buy your sister a birthday present. You can do this many ways. There is the good why where you get money off you farther for every good deed you do. Then there is the evil way where you get money for doing things like turning a blind eye to a man who is cheating on his wife and he will give you money to not say anything or helping  a bully scare a small child to get his spending money. The tutorial for combat it good because you learn it when the boy learns it at the heroes guild. Because of what happens throw out the story you can relate to the character very well. This could also be because you make all of the characters chooses for him it is scripted but to a point. The story is simple enough on the surface for younger player but has a lot of depth that older more mature plays can sink their teeth in to if they so wish.  

The character are relevant to the target audience because most of them will be like able to someone. But the main unnamed character will be liked as you may personal touches to him. But the main character who most people would like I would think is Jack Of Blades because of his bad ass appears and personality. He has one of the best back-story in the games. The main character for the game fits in with the conventions because he starts of week but then grow in power and strength until he is the most power full person in the land. The main villain in the games fit in with conventions because he is made to look very power full and by the person you have to overcome and beat to get your goal.   

The first challenge on the game are enemies you will have to defeat to continue. The enemies start off with simple insects then go onto bandits and keep changing and getting harder as you prosed. There are also different methods to beating each enemy but they are not needed just help. When you accept a quest you may also take on many boast. Boast are extra challenges that will make you more money if you can complete them are lose money if you cannot.  Such as not taking any damage throw out a quest are not losing any one in an escort quest. As you kill enemy’s you will get points to spend upgrading things. The points are split into four different things general points that can be used in any category but then there are blue, red and yellow points each representing points for each skill. Red is strength blue is for will /magic and yellow is for skill, Skill is an odd skill tree to explain as it is for long rang weapons, stealth and attack spend. These coloured points are for their skills and no other and can only be obtained by using there type of attack.

          

I would not say there is an age rang for this game as there is such wide group of people who could like it. I suppose you could say it was aimed at a younger audience because of the art style. The game would also be suited to a younger audience as there is a very silly humour to it. But the reason I think that the game is not aimed at this one age group is because there are points in the game where a younger person would not understand and or a bit too dark for them.  I do not think there is another game that is like Fable but has such a wide audience. There are game like Skyrim I could compare it to but then I could easily compare it to some like sky landers as well something really out there like Stubs The Zombie Rebel With Out A Pulse. It is not fitting in to a gap in the market more like filling all the possible audience member it could.  

The game came out for Xbox 360 and PC. I would not say the game is aimed at one platform more than another because it works well on both and there are no advantages to playing on one particle platform. 

South Park and the stick of truth (Xbox 360)

It is a turn based RPG open world game. The genre the game belongs to is RPG. The game fits In with the stylistic conventions of an RPG because there are different classes to choose from and different enemy’s to fight that very in difficultly. You also get rewards for searching throw the environment and beating enemy’s, bosses and for finishing quests. The game sit well in the RPG genre and has its own south park twist to it. It is as fun as something like Skyrim and play and plays just as good.   

Killing Floor

GTA 5

Hitman

Just Dance

Skyrim 

log

19/03/2014
I made a target profile by myself and with my team.
Then I made a production plan for the team and a person one.
Then I made this Blog.

21/03/2014
I made a survey to send to every one with in the UTC and others that was aimed at our target audience.

26/03/2014
I sent out the survey monkey to all people who I thought could give us good feed back then I updated the teams production plan. Then we all got to gather and talked about the music Mitch had made for his work.

11/04/2014
I have been doing legal and ethical work for gaming and in general