Gaming Genres

Genre Name	Genre Description	Genre Example
FPS	This stands for First Person Shooter. This essentially means you have the first person view of the person you are controlling. With this combined the game is also a shooter.	Call of Duty Black Ops 2 was published in 2012 by Treyarch. The Call of Duty series is well renowned for its multiplayer gameplay. It is a FPS with a more simulated approach of gaming rather than being realistic like EA digital illusions do in there series Battlefield. Call of Duty is aimed at people over the age of 18 although it main fan base is teenagers. The online multiplayer has a system of where the more kills and strategy points you get the more you level up and eventually you are enable to prestige.
Survival Horror	A survival horror is game where it aims to scare the person playing the game. The game usual involves traditional dead, the undead, blood and gore.	DayZ is a mod on Arma but is considered its own separate game. The game was released on December 16, 2013. The game has massive map which is constantly online, or better known as MMO. The basic description of the game is that you are a random character that is generated when you spawn, you basically have to survive when there are a mob of zombies patrolling the map. You have eat, sleep, drink, clothe. So it is a proper survival game. Its main target audience is teenagers aged 16 and onwards.
Racing	A racing game is where it simulates driving a vehicle fast usually around a set track.	Forza 5 is produced by Turn 10. It was released on November 22, 2013. It is a realistic driving game that has a very realistic driving engine. The game partnerships with Top Gear. Top Gear producers Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May all read out descriptions and facts about cars. Along with this Forza 5 have the rights to have the Top Gear track on there as well. Its main target audience is children, any age really just anybody that is into cars. Every track on Forza 5 is digitally produced to perfection.
Open World	An Open World game gives you freedom to explore the world you are in, as completely and thoroughly as you want to, whilst there is a main story to complete as well.	GTA 5 is an example of an Open World game. GTA 5 was published by Rockstar North and developed by Rockstar Games. It was released on September 17, 2013 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. GTA 5 has 3 protagonists that are all playable at any time. Each protagonist has a special ability. In simple detail you have to rob banks in able to get money… and furthermore complete the game. This is an excellent game that you can play at your own freedom, for example you can steal any car you see and you can to any specific locations at any given time.
MMO	This stands for Massive Multiplayer Online. This is a game which is capable of holding a large amount of players simultaneously.	The Crew is game set to be released 14 November 2014. This game is published by Ubisoft and coming out on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. The Crew is a racing game based on the whole of America. The game has all of the main cities implemented into the game and furthermore has all of the main attractions in America including the Grand Canyon, Laguna Sega Speedway and many, many more. The map size is 79 real life miles long and will take an age to discover fully. The game is always online and uses only one server for its whole community on each platform. For example Xbox One and PS4 have different servers but there is only one on each.
Vehicle Simulator	This a simulator of driving a vehicle in real-life situations, either just for fun or to learn how that vehicle reacts as you are about to drive it.	Euro Truck Simulator 2 is developed by SCS Software. The game was released in October 19, 2012. The game allows you to be a truck driver in a game. It allows you to complete deliveries all over Europe as realistic as possible. For example you have to fuel up, you can have any damages or you can’t drive erratically and you can speed. The game is aimed at people that are wanting to drive trucks in the near future, but can also be played for fun.
RPG	This stands for Role Playing Games. This is a game which simulates a character in a fictional setting.	Fallout New Vegas was released in October 22, 2010 and was developed by Obsidian Entertainment. The game is an action role-play. In the game you play as a character in a wasteland that has high radiation and is full of creatures that mutated. It is all about survival mixed with quests and mission in order to complete the main story. You can get special attacks using the V.A.T.S system in game. With all of this combined there are many mutated creatures that are hard to defeat and come out at the most horrible and worst moments.
Adventure	An Adventure game is where the player of the game takes the protagonist through an interactive story.	Fable 3 was released on 29 October 2010. It was developed by Lionhead Studios and was published by Microsoft Game Studios.

Games Concept

Drafts For The Maze Game

Room 1

Room 1 - Only very rough draft

Room 2

Room 2 - Only rough drafts

 Room 3

Room 3 - Only rough drafts

What Is A Game Concept?

 A gaming concept is pre-planning of the game. Things may change, but this is an initial plan of the game. Sketches have been drawn of the game but until tested I wont know if the game is working fluidly. If not things will have to change so that they do.

About My Game

My game is based on character that's stuck inside a maze full of dreadful monsters that will kill you if they catch you. He is going through the maze in order to get out so that he can be free of the monsters. I made this game on Game Maker. The characters name is Spencer. Monster one's name is Dan the Devil. Monster two's name is Sam the Smorg. Monster three's name is Harry the 'H'. There are collectable coins around the maze in order to unlock the door to get to the finish.

 

Who Is The Game For?

  The game is for most age groups. But the game is mainly aimed for the ages 9-14. This is because it most be fun for that age group. Both boys and girls can play the game. The game will be available on PC web browsers and later available on android/IOS.

 

Who Is Going To Make It?

I will be the only developer of the game. I will program the game, develop the graphics and produce the sound for the game as well.

 

Why Are You Making The Game?

I am creating the game for a project purpose.

 

What Are You Going To Need To Make The Game?

To create this game I will need software and sounds and sprites and programming. The software I will be using is Game Maker. This software allows you create sprites and rooms for the maze game. Although the sprites may not be of high quality. To create the sprites I used Photoshop, this allows you create more in depth sprites that are of higher quality. I used Game Maker to create the rooms for my maze game. I also used Game Maker to program my game and test it.



Visual Styles of Games

Visual Styles of Games

What are visual styles?

There are different visual styles in video games. In other words its the type of gaming graphics used in the game to present the type of game it is. For example, the developers of a game may want the game to be realistic or they may want it to be cartoon like.

 

Cel-Shaded

Cel-shading is a non-photorealistic rendering style making the video game graphics appear hand drawn or cartoony. This style is generally used in Japanese developed games. This style is quite new. The first cel-shaded computer game came out in the twenty-first century. In comparison to other games, it has a very simplistic style. In these games, the game is most-likely based on a comic book that previously came out before the game was even thought of. The ways of telling that it is a cel-shaded game is that it has feint outlines around each object in the game. Bright vibrant colours is another stereotype of cel-shaded games. Examples of cel-shaded games are, Dragonball Z, Naruto and Afro Samurai.



Dragonball Z - A cel-shaded game 

Photorealism

In photorealism games the game developers try to emulate a realistic game with 3D mesh, whether its fictional or nonfictional. This is tremendously hard to make and requires a highly skilled artist to get the scaling, textures, models and various other things to get the art side if the video game correct. It is also very time consuming. It requires powerful hardware to render the finished product. One of the reasons to why developers use photorealism is to simulate a cinematic realistic experience for the gamer. Examples of games that use this style are, Crysis 3, Max Payne and GTA.

 

GTA 5 - A photorealism game

 

Exaggerated

Exaggerated games are kind of based on photorealism games. The arts that are produced in the game are realistic but have been enhanced and heavily done to make it exaggerated. There are a lot of Japanese developed games that use the exaggerated visual style to make their games interesting to their target audience. One example of this is Tekken. Tekken includes many exaggerated fighting moves, weapons and even hairstyles. Some western games use exaggerated visual style including Batman: Arkham City and Devil May Cry.



Devil May Cry - An exaggerated game

Abstract

This is probably one of the most unique visual styles of gaming. This style is nothing in comparison to others, meaning they are nothing alike. They are usually made up of geometrical shapes and generally don't acquire much skill when playing them. A typical abstract game would use vivid colours although some do use subtle colours to make you feel relaxed. Examples of abstract games are Tetris, Child of Eden and Katamari series.  

Tetris - An abstract game

 

Military

There are many examples of video games that have a military visual style. In a typical military game it will be in first person and will simulate a realistic simulation of what is like to fight on a battlefield. In many ways military games are similar to photo-realism although it has its own separate category because of how unique it is in textures wise. You know when your playing a military game, mostly likely because the textures stand out to their own unique style. Examples of military games are Call of Duty series and Battlefield series.

Battlefield 4 - A military game

 

Rockstar

Rockstar have their own unique visual style in computer games. For example the textures in their games are very similar and once you have played one they all become the same underneath. For example, Max Payne 3 have similarities to their GTA series. All of their games involve crime and have a similar style whilst playing them. Rockstar are a well-like company that make games such as GTA series, Max Payne series, Red Dead series, Bully series and LA Noire.

Max Payne 3 - A Rockstar produced game

2 Dimensional

 

A 2D game is very simplistic. Usually they don't really take much skill, although they can still be as fun and addicting to any other game. Furthermore 2D games don't really have going on in the way of what you can do. Some if the first games created are 2D, for example Pong and Space invaders which were hugely popular when they first cam out.

Space Invaders - A 2D game 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Gaming Journey

The Gaming Journey

About Me

My name is Callan and I'm 16 years old. I play a lot of video games on both console and pc. Furthermore I am very sporty and I am into sports games including the likes of Fifa, NBA 2K and Football Manager and many others. 

Football Manager 2014