Research and Ideas

 Finding Inspiration

I started with watching documentaries from the variety of topics on the History channel.

Taking notes and considering each subject as a game evironment.

I took my camera with me on every job with the casino crew and every trip.

 Here is a selection of the photos I gathered:

I chose 3 ideas and listed their pros and cons.I started telling people about them to get some reactions, they were not great, and i knew they wouldnt be, because if im honest, i didnt like them, i was just panicking that i hadnt chosen anything.

I tried making it personal and brainstorming ideas relevant to my life.

Back to finding inspiration. After reading a selection of game books, magazines and the Portal and TF2 presentations on VLE, I thought, I’m doing it the wrong way round, If I design the game first, develop the narrative, characters personalities and some original game play ideas then the environment should as if like magic, appear in my brain.

Brainstorming and narrative planning.

As the environment is all I am able to make, I started looking at games that tell their story through the environment. Here are some of my game play and environment plans. (Not that I expect you to understand them).