Multimedia Development 1

 Good evening all, unfortunately I miss understood the task for last week so a big amount of information that was meant to be in this week is there. The link to my last weeks blog is here . Anyways, today I have thought further in designing my game.  As this game has to be challenging, I want to have a random spawner of the targets in my game. I really want to include that as I don't want this game to be predictable. I want the player to really work on their reactions as you never know where an opponent  is in a real and competitive FPS game. I'm rethinking the idea of having the targets very visible. If I get the chance to I will change the colours of the targets as you choose a different level.  In terms of the map I want to keep it the same as I think it is very simple yet big enough for the player to explore it. I want to keep the graphics simple as I'm not going to focus on how beautiful the game is but more so the effectiveness of the game. The sort of look I w...

Image Source from Flickr What is the GDD for? A Game Design Document (GDD) is a blueprint for the design and development of a game. The GDD is a way of being creative and documenting the approach to the development of the game. Gonzale (1999) states that “ the important thing is to have something that describes your game project (or any other project for that matter) before jumping into production .( Gamasutra ) It should help to plan out your game. Though it is recommended that the GDD should be short it needs to be detailed enough so as game developers and artists can coordinate the development of the game independently whilst still keeping to the design.  The GDD is a blueprint for how the game is going to be designed and built, similar to a mind map. In conclusion, the game design document is vital to making a game and it is important to have in order to describe your game project. How do we make one? There are a variety of tools that could be used to create a GDD. These incl...