BTEC Extended Diploma in Computer Games design
Unit 22
Unit 72
Genres
Different games have different genres.
Action: Combat tends to play a big role in action games, this requires the player to have quick reflexes and be able to execute actions quickly. Examples of action games are Portal and Mortal Kombat.
Shooter: Shooter games heavily embark on the aspect of combat, usually with items like guns and missiles. There are three types of shooter games, 2D, third person and first person shooters. Popular games like Battlefield and Call of Duty belong to the shooter genre.
Adventure: An adventure game is a game where the player is given a task to complete and while progressing through this tasks, other smaller tasks may occur. Examples of adventure games are The Stanley Parable and Monkey Island.
Action-adventure: Action-adventure games are mixture of the adventure and action genres. There is a goal you have to reach and there is also some form of combat or quick time event involved. Some of examples of action-adventure games are The Wolf among Us and The Last of Us.
Role-Playing: The player has to play as one more more characters who have certain skills that specialize themselves. Each character will have a certain skill. These games also tend to have a story line in which the player chooses what to do, which could have a heavy impact on the outcome. You choose how your characters acts/behaves. Examples of role-playing games are Final Fantasy and Elder Scrolls.
Simulation: Simulation games allow you to "experience" what it would be like to do a certain thing. These games are supposed to simulate reality. A popular simulation game is The Sims. Another example is Farming Simulator.
Strategy: Strategy games require the player to think/plan in order to proceed through the game. Professor Layton and Civ V are both strategy games.
Sports: Sport games are more competitive, they consist of you going against other people individually or in teams. Some sport games are also seen as driving games. Forza and Fifa are some well-known sport games.
Idle gaming: One of the least popular genres is Idle gaming. This consists of games like Cookie Clicker. This is where the player is given a simple task that they must continue to do over and over again. The player will be rewarded with upgrades as they progress throughout the game. Idle gaming also consists of games like Candy Box.
Logic games: These games just want you to use your common sense. Maze games are also seen in the logic genre. Games like Tetris could also fit into the logic genre. Doctor Mario is also apart of the logic games.
The good and bad things about Computer Gaming
There are many negatives when it comes to Computer Gaming, but they can be balanced out with the positives that it brings.
Positives
One positive effect that computer gaming brings is social skills. From playing online games, you may have to communicate with other people and this could improve your social skills in reality.
Another positive is that it will improve your hand-eye coordination! For example, in a shooter game, you will need to have quick reactions in order to stay alive. This could also apply to your non-virtual life as you may need to have quick reactions in difficult situations. Your second life could save your first.
Multi-tasking is also another positive which gaming gives. If you have to complete more than one thing in a certain amount of time, multi-tasking will allow you to do this and it may also make you feel less stressed, knowing that you will be able to complete everything in a certain time slot.
Perseverance is a big positive, if the player fails at something in a game, they tend to continue until they succeed. This teaches people to never give up and keep trying until you get it right.
Games could also potentially improve your mathematical skills, some games DO provide education.
Computers game can also improve your memory skills, by playing certain strategy/shooter games, you may have to remember what the best places are to go in order to win the game. You will be able to remember the important things and forget the pointless things.
Team work skills are key in most online games. This will allow you to work in groups in real life and be able to communicate more with other people in order to solve a problem, this also links in with social skills. However, games could also improve your independent skills, depending on what type of game you are playing.
Games encourage you to take risks and this could be helpful in real life. This could also be seen as a negative as well, considering you might take the WRONG risks.
Games will also improve your quick thinking skills, allowing you to make fast decisions and it will allow you to analyse things faster.
Video games make learning more fun for kids and this will encourage them to actually learn more.
Negatives
There are also a few negatives when it comes to gaming. One being that you can become socially isolated and they may participate in less tasks like sport or reading. They may also forget about their homework and focus on video games instead. Gaming could also potentially destroy friendships as you spend more time playing games than spending time with friends and family.
People think that some games make their child think different. It makes them have bad behaviour or become more aggressive in certain situations.
Video games may also affect the player's health, such as obesity. Most people do play video games AND exercise, but others do not.
The online world of gaming can affect your child heavily. They can easily pick up bad language and they can also be vulnerable to online dangers and issues, including cyber bullying.
Gaming CAN help with short-term concentration, but it can also affect your long-term concentration.
Visual Style of a game
Each room will be a still image background of a facility. This will be a lot cheaper to make rather than using expensive programs in order to create an animated background.
All of the items will appear as 2D as well, they will be detailed as much as they can but again, it will be a lot cheaper if done in 2D instead of 3D. The characters, however, will look a little bit more 3D than everything else, you will able to see them more clearly than the background. In each level there are NPCs, the enemies. The game is intended to be Cel-shaded/Exaggerated.
Once you get to the boss level, there will be more NPCs (your friends). There will only be two cut-scenes which will be in 3D, one at the beginning and one at the end. The first one being 6 minutes long, and the final one being 5 minutes long. The location of this game will not have any similarities to any real-world places.
Game-play concept
The game is set in 2290.
You play as the main character called Taris, you have to go on a journey through a robot infested factory. Droids have taken over the country, and they intend to take over the world.
(THESE RULES ONLY APPLY TO LEVELS 1-4) Your task is to go through the factory and save all of your friends which have been taken hostage by the droids, they have all been turned into cyborgs. In each room there is a key, the key will allow you to unlock each cell in order to save your friends. But you have to wait a certain amount of time before you are able to retrieve the key. In order to start the timer you have to press a button which will be located somewhere in the room, once the button is pressed you will see a countdown. Once the countdown reaches 0 you will be able to retrieve the key. You have three lives and if you lose all of them then you have to start the level again. If you lose all of your lives three times, you have to start the whole game again, you will be sent back in time in order to have all your lives back again.
Whilst you are waiting for the key you will be attacked by a number of different robots. The robots (Stareks, Cyberoids and Zood) intend to turn you into a cyborg and use you as a weapon against the world. (There are 4 'save your friend' levels, and one boss level) There is also a 'Crate' located in each room, this 'Crate' contains a weapon called 'The Exterminator', this weapon can kill the robots. The only robot that the weapon will cause no damage to is the the boss, 'Datlof'. You have to a collect a new Exterminator in each room, this is because any weapons that aren't apart of Datlof's collection are disintegrated when you go through each door in the facility. The Exterminators are there in the first place because of Spanner, Spanner can summon specific weapons. He can also summon special weapons at random times in the game.
(BOSS LEVEL RULES) In the boss level, the rules slightly change. You have 5 lives and if you lose them all then you have to restart the boss level again, you can lose them all as many times as you like, you will NOT be sent back to the beginning of the game. The people you have saved in the previous levels will try to distract the robots whilst you fight Datlof, but they can still attack you if you get too close. You can click on one of your friends and click on a location you want them to go to, this allows you to control where you want a distraction to happen. C-BOT is the only friend you cannot control, he will not be able to distract the robots as he has no weapons. You can only control Spanner, Oswin and F.3-9.
At the beginning of the level, you can press the button next to the 'start here' point, this will slowly release a key, the key will take about 3 minutes to reach the end of the pipe. If you get the key, it will open up a room allowing you to go inside and collect an extra life. There is also another button in that room, but use it wisely, it will freeze all of the enemies for 20 seconds. The main part of this level is to actually defeat the boss. There are four different buttons on the floors in the room, each with a light above them. When the light turns green, you can go to the button that is highlighted and press it, this will cause damage to Datlof. You have to hit Datlof 25 times before he is destroyed, but if you are too slow, his health will regenerate. Datlof can release fire and electricity. You can still use the exterminator to attack the other robots but, as I mentioned before, it will have no effect on Datlof.
You win the game by defeating Datlof, once Datlof is destroyed, all of the enemy robots will go offline. All you have to do then, is walk out the front door.
Games will also improve your quick thinking skills, allowing you to make fast decisions and it will allow you to analyse things faster.
Video games make learning more fun for kids and this will encourage them to actually learn more.
Negatives
There are also a few negatives when it comes to gaming. One being that you can become socially isolated and they may participate in less tasks like sport or reading. They may also forget about their homework and focus on video games instead. Gaming could also potentially destroy friendships as you spend more time playing games than spending time with friends and family.
People think that some games make their child think different. It makes them have bad behaviour or become more aggressive in certain situations.
Video games may also affect the player's health, such as obesity. Most people do play video games AND exercise, but others do not.
The online world of gaming can affect your child heavily. They can easily pick up bad language and they can also be vulnerable to online dangers and issues, including cyber bullying.
Gaming CAN help with short-term concentration, but it can also affect your long-term concentration.
Visual Style of a game
Each room will be a still image background of a facility. This will be a lot cheaper to make rather than using expensive programs in order to create an animated background.
All of the items will appear as 2D as well, they will be detailed as much as they can but again, it will be a lot cheaper if done in 2D instead of 3D. The characters, however, will look a little bit more 3D than everything else, you will able to see them more clearly than the background. In each level there are NPCs, the enemies. The game is intended to be Cel-shaded/Exaggerated.
Once you get to the boss level, there will be more NPCs (your friends). There will only be two cut-scenes which will be in 3D, one at the beginning and one at the end. The first one being 6 minutes long, and the final one being 5 minutes long. The location of this game will not have any similarities to any real-world places.
Game-play concept
The game is set in 2290.
You play as the main character called Taris, you have to go on a journey through a robot infested factory. Droids have taken over the country, and they intend to take over the world.
(THESE RULES ONLY APPLY TO LEVELS 1-4) Your task is to go through the factory and save all of your friends which have been taken hostage by the droids, they have all been turned into cyborgs. In each room there is a key, the key will allow you to unlock each cell in order to save your friends. But you have to wait a certain amount of time before you are able to retrieve the key. In order to start the timer you have to press a button which will be located somewhere in the room, once the button is pressed you will see a countdown. Once the countdown reaches 0 you will be able to retrieve the key. You have three lives and if you lose all of them then you have to start the level again. If you lose all of your lives three times, you have to start the whole game again, you will be sent back in time in order to have all your lives back again.
Whilst you are waiting for the key you will be attacked by a number of different robots. The robots (Stareks, Cyberoids and Zood) intend to turn you into a cyborg and use you as a weapon against the world. (There are 4 'save your friend' levels, and one boss level) There is also a 'Crate' located in each room, this 'Crate' contains a weapon called 'The Exterminator', this weapon can kill the robots. The only robot that the weapon will cause no damage to is the the boss, 'Datlof'. You have to a collect a new Exterminator in each room, this is because any weapons that aren't apart of Datlof's collection are disintegrated when you go through each door in the facility. The Exterminators are there in the first place because of Spanner, Spanner can summon specific weapons. He can also summon special weapons at random times in the game.
(BOSS LEVEL RULES) In the boss level, the rules slightly change. You have 5 lives and if you lose them all then you have to restart the boss level again, you can lose them all as many times as you like, you will NOT be sent back to the beginning of the game. The people you have saved in the previous levels will try to distract the robots whilst you fight Datlof, but they can still attack you if you get too close. You can click on one of your friends and click on a location you want them to go to, this allows you to control where you want a distraction to happen. C-BOT is the only friend you cannot control, he will not be able to distract the robots as he has no weapons. You can only control Spanner, Oswin and F.3-9.At the beginning of the level, you can press the button next to the 'start here' point, this will slowly release a key, the key will take about 3 minutes to reach the end of the pipe. If you get the key, it will open up a room allowing you to go inside and collect an extra life. There is also another button in that room, but use it wisely, it will freeze all of the enemies for 20 seconds. The main part of this level is to actually defeat the boss. There are four different buttons on the floors in the room, each with a light above them. When the light turns green, you can go to the button that is highlighted and press it, this will cause damage to Datlof. You have to hit Datlof 25 times before he is destroyed, but if you are too slow, his health will regenerate. Datlof can release fire and electricity. You can still use the exterminator to attack the other robots but, as I mentioned before, it will have no effect on Datlof.
You win the game by defeating Datlof, once Datlof is destroyed, all of the enemy robots will go offline. All you have to do then, is walk out the front door.
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