On friday afternoon I presented my final presentation which amounts to most of my grade for my FMP. I went pretty bad from my end was really nervous and went pretty quick, didn't feel I explained stuff well enough.
Anyway heres a link - final presentation
Got some feedback on the presentation of mine after it was over:
One person said:
- clearly well planned
- interesting
- kept my attention
Another said:
- great explanation of how you would write for different mediums
- very creative ideas
- good amount of research
The evaluation is due in for the whole project, in two weeks I have a week of from college then I week to finish it. So a pretty hefty document.
By the way an update on my back. I was sent for x-ray and will get the results soon to find out what the fudge is wrong with me. still hurts but is on and off. The tablets seem not to work.
Sunday 26 May 2013
Friday 17 May 2013
FMP File - 17/05/13
This week I have built a file and completed the production of my FMP.
The file consists of everything I have done for the FMP and is being handed in at 4 GMT on 17/05/13. Well at least everything that is submittable I am glad to have done what I have done for my FMP and I have furtherened my knowledge in writing for both for games and other medias. The file is built and is ready for sending just need to print of this final blog post add it in and then give it to my tutor.
Come up on a conundrum today or last night I did. The USB that contains all of my FMP was empty and later I searched the internet for a fix which I did and then I had a folder called found and it had recovery file fragments and a lot of them in there. Having no clue and stressing a lot I went to the technicians for help, they helped a fair bit and are now trying to revive my USB back from the dead hopefully with all my work in its haul. Bear in mind its the rest of this years work on their also not just my FMP.
So today I finished of completing Critical Approaches file and was done quite quickly really only took me a few hours.
- Link to Critical Approaches
The next time you'll hear from me is when I've done the final presentation and the Evaluation/ Report. If it wasn't for my tutor Craig I wouldn't have been able to gain the base knowledge to build my FMP, so thanks to him and to most of the other tutors that helped me along the way.
So I suppose I'll speak to you all in a few week.
The file consists of everything I have done for the FMP and is being handed in at 4 GMT on 17/05/13. Well at least everything that is submittable I am glad to have done what I have done for my FMP and I have furtherened my knowledge in writing for both for games and other medias. The file is built and is ready for sending just need to print of this final blog post add it in and then give it to my tutor.
Come up on a conundrum today or last night I did. The USB that contains all of my FMP was empty and later I searched the internet for a fix which I did and then I had a folder called found and it had recovery file fragments and a lot of them in there. Having no clue and stressing a lot I went to the technicians for help, they helped a fair bit and are now trying to revive my USB back from the dead hopefully with all my work in its haul. Bear in mind its the rest of this years work on their also not just my FMP.
So today I finished of completing Critical Approaches file and was done quite quickly really only took me a few hours.
- Link to Critical Approaches
The next time you'll hear from me is when I've done the final presentation and the Evaluation/ Report. If it wasn't for my tutor Craig I wouldn't have been able to gain the base knowledge to build my FMP, so thanks to him and to most of the other tutors that helped me along the way.
So I suppose I'll speak to you all in a few week.
Saturday 11 May 2013
Completed Production.
Well sort of completed production. On thursday night (09/05) I finally completed chapter 3 and with that the major document for my FMP, at that time it was a very hard thing for me to do considering how I was but I'll explain that later. I'll also link the document so you can access and read it in all its 'glory'.
- Death's Apprentice up to C3 done
I hope you enjoy it in all its entirety (of 3 chapters). I always thoughts I'd have more time but turns out it was not meant to be, not part of my courses grand design it seems. reflecting back chapter 3 in itself is too long it probably worth 2 chapters in it self. I don't even know why I'm calling them chapters I mean transferring them into a game setting what I've wrote would mostly all be cinematic with gameplay added in here and there but thats because in the timeline of this its the start and chapter 4 would be start of the proper tutorial this just introduces you to the world and gives you some premise to jump off into and at the same time making you feel and connect with the character. The main contagonist/ protagonist in these parts at least he plays these character types is David and when writing him I've always imagined it being me as David. So when I give the 'player'/ 'reader' a choice it's always what I would've done.
Reflecting on the quantity of this, I don't feel it's enough I feel like there should be soo much more but I do hope when and if someone reads it it gives them a taste of what my skill is like, I'm no master writer, I'm only a padawan that needs a lot of training but has bags of potential.
On the notion that I've 'completed' production I've not as far as my tutor' are concerned, we had a discussion on what he actually wants from me as production is concerned and this is the results:
- Story/ Narrative itself/ Production
GDD type documents
- Story with edits dictating what I envisage the game play will look like with images
- Story with edits dictating GDD type edits, like at what point the main gets certain powers, what chapters are which levels/ locations, so for example 5 chapters might happen in just one level or 5 levels might happen in which chapters, also in this dictate when and where cinematics or game play happens
As I said the main document is done, everything else that needs to be done will be based of this, which both of them are in progress and for my FMP to be seen as part of my course I need to show how this relates to games and gameplay and insert game design edits into it.
On personal note, so anyone who doesn't give a crap about me and just wants to see stuff about my work can leave now.
Anyway relating to what I said above how it was very hard for me to complete this. The past week or so I think since Monday/ Tuesday I've been dealing with a lot of back pain or at least I think its back pain, I have no idea where its come from or how it happened but I've been feeling incredible and immense pain on the right side of my back and its been mobile to one moment it might be on my right side the next moment it might underneath my shoulder blade. Its not the type of pain that goes away either its the headache/ migraine type of pain to say loosely 'its always online' (like the next xbox or we think so). So in a term it doesn't freaking go away. But also at the same time I have a sort of cold thats a tickly cough and a bunged up nose which all compiled and fused together makes me feel like well.. not well at all. Kinda hard to do work while all this is going on?
So yeah I had Friday off because it was a workshop all day and I genuinely didn't feel up to going in at all. But present day now I'm feeling a little better, my cough has gone to my chest which it usually does my nose hurts when I blow it. And my backs playing temperamental but feels better. Fresh air helps my chest and having a hot shower helps my back a lot. So yeah.
Thats pretty much it. I'll work on the rest of my FMP and the production, seems as well the whole freaking thing is in for next Friday which is flamin great news.
- Death's Apprentice up to C3 done
I hope you enjoy it in all its entirety (of 3 chapters). I always thoughts I'd have more time but turns out it was not meant to be, not part of my courses grand design it seems. reflecting back chapter 3 in itself is too long it probably worth 2 chapters in it self. I don't even know why I'm calling them chapters I mean transferring them into a game setting what I've wrote would mostly all be cinematic with gameplay added in here and there but thats because in the timeline of this its the start and chapter 4 would be start of the proper tutorial this just introduces you to the world and gives you some premise to jump off into and at the same time making you feel and connect with the character. The main contagonist/ protagonist in these parts at least he plays these character types is David and when writing him I've always imagined it being me as David. So when I give the 'player'/ 'reader' a choice it's always what I would've done.
Reflecting on the quantity of this, I don't feel it's enough I feel like there should be soo much more but I do hope when and if someone reads it it gives them a taste of what my skill is like, I'm no master writer, I'm only a padawan that needs a lot of training but has bags of potential.
On the notion that I've 'completed' production I've not as far as my tutor' are concerned, we had a discussion on what he actually wants from me as production is concerned and this is the results:
- Story/ Narrative itself/ Production
GDD type documents
- Story with edits dictating what I envisage the game play will look like with images
- Story with edits dictating GDD type edits, like at what point the main gets certain powers, what chapters are which levels/ locations, so for example 5 chapters might happen in just one level or 5 levels might happen in which chapters, also in this dictate when and where cinematics or game play happens
As I said the main document is done, everything else that needs to be done will be based of this, which both of them are in progress and for my FMP to be seen as part of my course I need to show how this relates to games and gameplay and insert game design edits into it.
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| This was the feels I had when I finally completed it on Thursday night |
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| oh you have back pain thats always online... |
So yeah I had Friday off because it was a workshop all day and I genuinely didn't feel up to going in at all. But present day now I'm feeling a little better, my cough has gone to my chest which it usually does my nose hurts when I blow it. And my backs playing temperamental but feels better. Fresh air helps my chest and having a hot shower helps my back a lot. So yeah.
Thats pretty much it. I'll work on the rest of my FMP and the production, seems as well the whole freaking thing is in for next Friday which is flamin great news.
FMP: Documents being produced
- Story/ Narrative itself/ Production
GDD type documents
- Story with edits dictating what I envisage the game play will look like with images
- Story with edits dictating GDD type edits, like at what point the main gets certain powers, what chapters are which levels/ locations, so for example 5 chapters might happen in just one level or 5 levels might happen in which chapters, also in this dictate when and where cinematics or game play happens
GDD type documents
- Story with edits dictating what I envisage the game play will look like with images
- Story with edits dictating GDD type edits, like at what point the main gets certain powers, what chapters are which levels/ locations, so for example 5 chapters might happen in just one level or 5 levels might happen in which chapters, also in this dictate when and where cinematics or game play happens
Wednesday 8 May 2013
08/05/2013 - 8th May 2013
I've been obviously doing alot more writing and I still need to do alot more. It's like my brain keep saying "MOAR WRITING IS NEEDED".
To be honest I could kill for a cafe with rain in italy or a wine villa in italy, or a modern cabin in the montains preferaly in Canada. It's just the right environment. But yeah at the latest it needs to be done as soon as.
To be honest I could kill for a cafe with rain in italy or a wine villa in italy, or a modern cabin in the montains preferaly in Canada. It's just the right environment. But yeah at the latest it needs to be done as soon as.
Sunday 5 May 2013
05/05/2013 - 5th May 2013
forgot to update yesterday I basically tried to write some more but got nowhere you could say I had writer's block, I just stared at the words and couldn't process what came after what I had written. Today I finally clicked and had 'ah ha' moment so I'm writing some more now. I'm on the cusp of the end of chapter 3 and the end of the production phase of my FMP and to write I should be with time dwindling down like grains of sand in a timer every day counts. I hope to god to finish production ASAP.
Friday 3 May 2013
T minus 2 weeks to go...
- 03 May 2013
Today my tutor went through what we have to include in our Final Presentation and I of course took notes so I know what I'm going to be doing when creating this all singing and all dancing presentation. This presentation is the final one and will go towards my final grade for the FMP.
After he finished he went through with me what I personally have to put into the presentation in relation to my project because showing this project visually is a hard thing to do to say the least. This is what we both came up with discussing what I have to put into the presentation:
"Narrative - explain
Writing for games, difference between writing for games, book and film
Show examples of story driven games (one certain game came to my mind which was Bioshock Inifinite or just generally Bioshock)
Give a synopsis/ plot of your story - short version
level break down - visually show, so say what chapters are cinematic or game play
story - visuals (e.g. Characters, environment,
Say what parts of this massive block of text is what so for example this massive piece of text is only the second level"
But in relation to what I'm going to do now, I am going to try to write some more. Wrote the first appearance of The Devil last night, aim to finish it today and that should wrap up chapter 3 really unless I think of anything else.
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