Week 6

After this most recent presentation our team overall took quite a bashing. With this in mind we still held our head high, but we decided to take a couple steps back and brainstorm some new ideas to see if we just jumped onto a wagon of two games too quickly in an effort to move forward. We also chose to have a lot more group meetings throughout the week and less work outside on our own. This overall went very well we came up with many different concepts that we all wanted to go forward with. Each team member was required to come in with at least one concept and we would vote and than move forward with those two games. Devon and I both had games that moved forward to attempt to get better details, game play and a more developed concept overall. This started going very well, we had a first responder medic game as well as a semi-horror/ thriller game. With this we started to do both paper prototypes and basic movement and levels in Unity. We chose to meet with Professor Ferguson on Monday to go over everything. This meeting brought about a whole new view of our game concepts and allowed us to feel much more comfortable. We went in with two concepts that we liked and came out with a different concept using the thriller game, that we wanted to really push. With the meeting we found out the medic game would have a very large scope and more research than the last 5 weeks would allow for us. The final game we call influence, which is a game that use Likert scales and using them to collect followers.

Our concept is to keep it as abstract as possible we want the player to decide who he is and why he needs followers. This allows every player to take about a different view of our game and make it what they want. Also you will build up a group that will eventually become the new "you" to say as you progress into a larger world looking for more and more followers. This is the same life or size concept as our previous comet game. As your influence grows so do you, but instead of it being you your followers become so attached the group becomes the new you. People who will never leave you no matter what your decision will be. You will go through and face other people with groups and be asked more specific questions that are one side or the other and no in between which will dictate a stronger push and pull than the rest. Overall we feel a lot more confident and ready to attempt stage one again next week. Depending on how far we get we might go for stage one and two and a week.