Game Design/HNC/HND

  Unit 78: Digital Graphics for Computer Games   P2 Be able to Generate Concept Art Ideas for Computer Game Graphics   Being Able to Generate Concept Art   Stimulus   What is a brief?   A Client brief is what your client asks you to do (E.g. make a stealth game that has a 3 hour story).   Your own brief is when you do want to do without limitations.   Market research is when you research certain games that are similar to the game you are creating for inspiration.   Ideas Generation   Brainstorming is when you have an idea and branch off to make more new ideas for the game.   Moods boards are images arranged in different ways to make you feel s certain emotion.   Thumbnail sketching are small drawings which are used to explore different ideas.   Concept drawing is when you draw an idea for what something would look like (E.g. Backgrounds, Sprites, Characters, Weap...

BTEC Extended Diploma in Computer Games Design Unit 1: Pre-production techniques for the creative media industries     Type of production   Finance   Hardware (Computers, Peripherals, Dev. kits)   Peripherals are mainly defined as to being an auxiliary device (a piece of equipment that connects to a computer) such as a mouse for a computer. Examples of peripherals for gaming devices are: controllers, memory cards, audio/visual cables, cases and software accessories. Development kits are mainly defined as kit that allows the creation of applications for certain software packaging, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar development platform. I will be using my memory card to hold my game on it, Shape Man.   Software (UDK, Unity, Game Maker, Maya)   Gaming software is used in computers to use things that run certain game engines that oft...

  Concept art   Concept art is an original design for a game, films, comics and TV shows, they may be changed later and the original design will be called the beta design. They are often left in black and white because they are the first designs so little details like colour would not be added until later.  

Types of Digital Graphics     Raster Images (BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPEG) Raster images are images with a dot matrix   data structure  in a rectangular grid of pixels or points of colour. The colours in a Raster image are made up of the 3 primary colour (Blue, Red and Green). The Raster is the grid which the images are on. A Raster grid or X and Y coordinates are on display space. Some examples raster image formats are: BMP (Bitmap), GIF (Graphic Interchange Format), TIFF (Tag Image File Format) and JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)   Vector Images (PSD, WMF, FLA, AI) Vector images are not made with a grid of pixels they are comprised with lots of paths this allows them to look superior to Raster image. Some examples of Vector Image format are: PSD (PhotoShop Document), WMF (Windows MetaFile), FLA (F L A) and AI (Adobe Illustrator).   File Extensions (BMP, PNG, TIFF, JPG, PSD) File extension is a file that has been nam...