Character Development

Yesterday I got a useful tip from my friend Paul to help flesh out my oc characters, a new way to come up with characters.

You see when I create character the  first thing I do is visualize what she or he looks like.

I still do this however my friend tough my to fill out character questionnaires. This actually helped me to develop my character Koah because I needed some more background of her.

This was very useful and I strongly suggest if your struggling with coming up with a back story for your characters do a character questionnaire.

Group game idea

Today we went out and did the oddest thing. Our tutor put us in groups and we were told to go out and buy any item for a pound.

We later found out that we had to come up with a idea for a game using that object we bought.

I was with Jack and Charlie and we bought of all things a squeaky chicken I wanted the squeaky donut but it was a funny idea so we went with it.

Our idea was a game about chickens defending their coop. You can probably say we were inspired by Chicken Run or Fox Busters.

My task was to come up with the characters which my team liked.

Overall it was a good day, the sun was out, we had a change of scenery,  had a laugh and learned that you can come up with a game idea about anything.

PPD Presentation skills

Today were put in groups of 3-4 and we had to produce a presentation about a random game that the Tutor gave us.

I was with my two friends Jack and Jodi which surprisingly started off bad but eventually things worked out and it went well.

The game we had to research was called Ballpoint Univerese.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/259390/

I admit things didn't  go as planned because I was confused about what role I was assigned to.

I even made the mistake of talking about one of the subjects I knew well, where in the middle of the presentation Jodi says I stole her part. I don't want to say she was wrong but she was, I could have sworn Jack told me to talk about the overall look of the game.

Sadly I had the feeling either of them didn't have a care in the world for the game we had to present. I believe the game had some potential, but then again I like Sureal art.

The real stressful part was having to write everything my two team mates were saying.

Jack didn't have Power point on his laptop. fortunately I did however it was on my Surface pro 3.

Also I had to go over to a mac just before it was time to present. This was only because I knew a good presentation is better with imagery it makes it more appealing to the audience.

I finally got the images on the power point presentation.

and I looked at the audience  every now and then because I was looking back at the imagery to gather points of interest. Overall it went semi well, but I defiantly think it could have gone better. I don't mean to blame people maybe I was just in a bad mood anyway we did the presentation and I learned about a interesting new game I never heard about.