Ealry Stage Poster
I've printed of some puts and started laying out my poster. Going to spend a few days working out what else needs to go on it before I start sticking things down. To be honest I probably wont get the glue out until Thursday night, to give me as long as possible to finalise my Ideas.
Nearing a Finished Prototype
I think I've come as far as I can with my prototype. Take a look! As you you may be able to tell Ive increased the number of blobs, and they now appear at a random point on the screen. Ive also included the elements of my visual design, including the animated sources of CO2, which pop up from behind the hills at intervals of 3,6 and 9 seconds. In the finished game these would pop up based on historic timings, and they would represent the increase of CO2 coming on the screen.
I think this might be what I have to present to my tutor group on Friday, as I'm just running out of time to work more on that, my poster, and the two other course works I need to finish, which is a real shame, as at the moment its the only element of Uni I'm enjoying. Oh Well. I'm hopping to continue with development over the Christmas break, and get the whole thing working a lot more, maybe including the increasing of C02, and working out when you knock them off the screen. We shall see how that goes.
I'll try and upload my poster before Friday as well, for anyone who wants to see it, and so there is a digital copy for my tutors if they need it. Oh, and for those who dont have flash or a webcam, heres a screenshot of the prototype.
Visual Design Concepts
Its been a bit quiet on the DMP front recently, as is always when we enter December I suddenly realise how much work I have to do for all my modules. But today I have been cracking on with my project, working on my poster and visual design.
On the poster front, I have decided the easiest way to achieve this would be print off all the individual elements and stick into one sheet of A1 size paper. So I have been typing up notes and gathering sketches together, and will be sticking it all together next Thursday night, ready to present to my tutor group next Friday (11/12/09).
For the visual design, I decided to knock together some concepts in photoshop based on my previous design ideas. I just google some images and cut out the hills and sky, and layered them up in the style of how I want the final product to look. Bellow are the 4 images in mind, that show how I expect different causes of CO2 to pop up during the running of the installation.
I think its clear that the factory and power station in these concepts would pop up from behind the hills, but I;m not sure how to make the road appear. Popping up from the bottom of the screen may look silly, so I am going to put it to my tutorial group on Friday.