Monday, April 18, 2011

Project Roles

For this project, the main roles will include a graphic designer and a programmer, possibly a sound designer. I can do all the graphics but I am not so fond of Flash, not so good when it comes to action script.

After thinking more about my idea that i proposed, I'd really like to continue and develop this interactive piece. However, because my coding skills are not as good as I'd like them to be, I wouldn't mind collaborating with someone who'd need graphics.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Project Inspiration - Shooting Games

Call Of Duty

Call of Duty is a 1st and 3rd person shooter video game series franchise. Created by Ben Chichoski, the series first began as a PC game, and later branched out to consols and handhelds such as the Xbox. The majority of the games are set during World War II, with exceptions of the Modern Warefare series which are set in modern times (hence the name), and Call of Duty: Black Ops which is set during the Cold War Era.


















DOOM

 DOOM is a 1993 1st person shooter video game. It was a pioneer for the first person shooter genre, explored 3D graphics, allowed users to play multiplayer and supported customizations and modifications.
In the game, players take the role of a space marine who fights his way through demons from Hell on Mar's moon 'phobos'.









These games gave me the idea of creating a first-person interactive shooting game. The whole idea of the first person genre allows the user to see the playing ground without having a character on screen. This can allow for accuracy and may make users feel like they are immensed in the game itself.


Project Inspiration - Don't Drop the Ball/Balloon

Scooby Doo Kickin It Flash Game














Don't Drop the Balloon

Those balloon games where you try to keep it in the air for as long as you can by hitting it with parts of your body.

Project Inspiration - Super Matio Bros / Arcade Games

Arcade games are still very popular these days..........cont


















Arcade Games 





Project Proposal - Beach Volleyball

Beach Volleyball is an interactive game where you use your body to hit the ball over the net without letting it hit he sand. This can be played with one or two players. This idea uses camera sensing and audio output.

The user must position themselves in the respective place to be able to hit the ball with the on-screen character. This requires them to move from side to side and back to front while bopping up and down to control the height of the character.

As the player/s succeed, more balls will appear "attached" to the main ball by an invisible elastic reducing the amountof space the balls spread to. Here, the user/s use their hands to hit the smaller balls back into the air before hitting the sand. After a certain amount of hits to the sand the game is over.



Project Proposal - Motion Shooter

Motion Shooter is an interactive game which involves moving of the body. This is played in first person.The camera sensing tracks the movement of the users body and hand gestures to play the game.
The user must kill all the enemies to complete the level. The hand gesture and whole body movement moves the hands of the character around the screen.
This uses camera tracking and both sound input and output. The user must use specific words to swap between weapons.
The landscape can be rotated by using a 'swipe' hand gestures to switch views.

Project Proposal - Blobbert

Blobbert was inspired by the old style 2D arcade games, like Super Mario. It draws on the end game of getting your character from the start to the end of the level, killing the enemies and collecting coins and useful objects.
There are two ideas to this design.
The first uses the users body to act as the control for the character on scree. Hand gestures control what the character does. To walk, they walk, to jump, they jump etc. This is the use of camera sensing of the body.

The second idea is to use fiducial markers to create the characters. The use of hand gestures still remain.