Narrative Assignment

So the last week we did an analysis on the story of Bioshock Infinite. Which was, put in simple terms, tough. Firstly I found the whole thing about “3 Act”, “9 Act” and “Heroes Journey” to be extremely confusing. It was not until I had seen my friends hand in that I thought I understood what it was all about. I then chose to do it with the template of a “Heroes Journey”, which I am not so sure was […]

Story telling

Idag har vi spelat ett spel kallat storycube, för att jobba med story telling.
Selet gick ut på att man fick 9 tärningar med olika bilder på och man skulle försöka använda så många av dem som möjligt för att utveckla den gemensamma storyn.
Här är det grova resultatet av vår story:
Ute och gick I skogen, såg en bro, gick över, kom till ett hus, kika igenom nyckhålet, fanns en telefon, tärningar och en jordglob.
Det går en annan snubbe över samma bro, […]

Inactivity

This week has been low on the activity front, not much has been done. We got our group assignments and my group got the word: interesting, suit.
While both are kind of fun I must say that I found the word “interesting” to be a little too broad. From what persons perspective are we thinking of? Is it interesting for the designer, programmer, consumer, producer or maybe the publisher?
While we had to interpret this question ourselves we have gone with our […]

First time entry, the big assignment.

Yesterday we got our first big assignment since coming to Gotland. As far as I understood it was about making a design for a game without gravity. Much like spaceshooters or pacman.
We were notified that we were to be given our groups and two random words that is going to be the foundation to the game.
More than this I do not know and thus concludes this post, until next time!