Author Archives: Archiebigsbyt

Hi guys, hope you are all well! I’m just going to do a quick update on the briefs I’ve been working on lately. It’s been going a bit slow since I’ve had quite a bit to take care of and focus on during these tough times but I’m working my way through them and IContinue reading “Brief update”

In the general specialism lectures we got into groups of 5 and designed assets for a possible tile matching game focused around fantasy forests drawing on inspiration from movies such as Dark Crystal (1982), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Legend (1985). We focused on assets around each of our own specialisms. We started producing assets forContinue reading “General Specialism talk”

So as promised in the last post I’m going to go through what I’ve done in the design specialism lectures a little more in detail. Brief 1 – Newspaper website game The first brief was to deliver a pitch for a game that would be presented on the side as readers scroll through the newspaper’sContinue reading “Design Specialism talk”

It has been quite a while since my last post due to some unforeseen circumstances but I’m going to quickly catch you guys up on everything that has been going on within the course and specialism briefs I’ve been tackling over the past couple of weeks or so. Design Specialism So the last time IContinue reading “A quick catch up”

So, I had my first design specialism session on Tuesday. For half of the session we sat and my lecturer went through each of the 14 briefs we could choose from. I’ll clarify what we actually have to do with the briefs first. Each brief focuses on a specific area with in design and presentsContinue reading “My first session”

If we start of with level design, all you need to do is look a bit more carefully at the structure of the first level in Super Mario Bros and how it teaches the player how to play the game without any complicated tutorials or pop up messages. Lets be honest with each other forContinue reading “Design – What Makes It Interesting?”

Welcome to All things game design! Hey guys! Just want to start off by saying thank you for taking the time to read this blog and I hope you enjoy it! If you haven’t already, head over to quick introductions, it’ll explain what this blog is about, why I’m doing it and most importantly, whoContinue reading “The Journey Begins”