December 11, 2006

Final project: character, Onimusha 3

I designed the character for Onimusha 3.

The story's go back and forwar between modern day in France and history period in Japan where Nobunaga (japanese emperor) rules Japan.

There are 2 character that player could play. The player could teleport through time to play another character.

I think it will be even more interesting if they could also teleport to the future. So I am designing the robot like samurai to be another character. I the character to be simplicity with not much texture to give high contrast to the background.

Sketch

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Character design without background (maya)
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Character design with mapping texture on the 3d space

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November 22, 2006

show and tell: Line Rider

Line rider is the game that you could draw and customize lines. The rider will ride on the line that you draw. You are trying not to make him fall off.

http://www.lineriderfun.com/index.php

November 15, 2006

show and tell, club penguin

I have been search around for the web looking for a game that interact like a chatroom. I came across that there are many chatroom being use face expression and 3d character recently. So I came across the online game "Club Penguin"

It is a game design for kids to social interact with another online. You move around fromone space to another like enter the chatroom. It also have sub-games such as "ice fishing", which you play by yourself and "find four", which you could play with other player.

It is a simple game and easy to understand as it design for kid to play. You could earn coins buy playing sub-games and buy your own custume just like warcraft but much more cute.

Town
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I think now a day, kid have more interact with online games and chat more than before as technology move toward. It help kids to learn interact with other people, and have fun at the same time.

custume
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http://www.miniclip.com/games/club-penguin/en/

show and tell, Final fantasy 12

I have played final fantasy since final fantasy IV. Recently I have played final fantasy XII, which is real time combat. What i like about final fantasy is the artistic of character design and great 3d rendering. The story is well written, but most of the theme is about love, passion and war. There are also side game such as hunt, which player would look for the comissioner to kill monster and earn reward. Beside the strong fantasy storyline there is small task, which you could choose to do it or not.

Final fantasy 12 is different from other final fantasy, but similar to final fantasy 11 (online) in a way it have real time combat.

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http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/488/488222/img_4028613.html

Gameplay and Gambit system

"Final fantasy gameplay features include the Active Dimension Battle system enabling players to move seamlessly between exploration and combat. Characters act according to an intricate "gambit" system of actions and reactions that you determine. As they fight, characters earn license points that can be spent to broaden their knowledge of magic, arms and armor."

http://ps2.ign.com/objects/488/488222.html

What I like about final fantasy the most is their artwork and architectural design. It is fantasy but it base upon some construction factor. Beside cool architecture, there always cool skyship.

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Final Fantasy Xii official website
http://www.finalfantasyxii.com/

November 13, 2006

Indigo Prophecy

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I tried to upload pdf file many times, but couldn't because the file probably too large, so I reduce the pixelsto make it smaller.

November 1, 2006

Controller design

My friend tried to search to buy his controller for his playstation. I come across the site that rank top 10 strangest game controller.

So I am taking a look at the design of it. Some are functional and design for a specific games.

Controller which design for Resident Evil
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Controller which design for rail driver
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some is intergrate with other device. In this one intregrate with running track.

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Some controller, they just play with the size of it either huge or tiny. I don't know what is the point of it.

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http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-game-controllers

October 30, 2006

midterm- tekken

I have provide research info include history of tekken and Namco in my earlier block.
The stage is base on the castle in Osaka, Japan. I use 3d program celled "vectorworks".

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As interior design major, most of my works is base on interior and not so much exterior I ever done so far. This is the first time I try to construct an exterior with complicate form. Since I came to CCA, my design base on minimal and clean approach. So in this project I want to try to construct 3d using traditional structure as a model.

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The render is not properly well finish with vectorworks's render function. Fot the limit time I have, instead of using vectorworks to render all part, I use photoshop to map some part that wasn't render properly.

The problem I found is: If I want to render it to be more realistic, it would took me longer time to render and my com spec. probably need to be higher so it run faster.

October 16, 2006

Storytron

It is a storytelling that create interactive story. It create story by using component to create a plot which are:
actors, which indicate characters in a different varieties of attributes and characteristics. Verb, is an action that the character take. Stage or location is where the action take place and events is the action taken by the character.
By giving much fexibility of the story, the player could creating their own story
I look around the website but I couldn't install it as I have mac os 10.3.9 but it require Mac os 10.4 or higher.

October 11, 2006

Peace Maker

It is a video game to promote peace base on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Players control Security, Political, and Construction.
The matter of maximum wining the game is you score 100 trying to make peace or lose maximum of -100 when war break.

"PeaceMaker is a game about relations. Eight different actors are simulated and interact with the player based on conditional mood. Graphical thermometers present the level of anger and disapproval of each of the actors with the player’s policies at any given time. Unbalanced relations with different actors can lead to a losing state."

"Real-time and Location-Based Events. Videos and pictures from a library of real-time news events are interjected into gameplay. Relevant events are presented on a high-resolution map of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip."

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http://www.peacemakergame.com/

October 9, 2006

A Force More Powerful

It is strategy game which as a player play the role of nonviolent movement. I think it similar to Sim city and Themepark, but more in depth of the aspect of social movement and political effect. The way you succeed in wining the game is base upon your tactics and how efficient you could manage resources.