Bibliography
Born Free (2018) Wild Animal Ban for Circuses in England. Available at: https://www.bornfree.org.uk/news/news-wild-animal-ban-for-circuses-in-england/ (Accessed: 08/01/25) Davis, J. (2002) Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States: The University of North Carolina Press. READ MORE
Brainstorming
This week we focused on essential experience and adapting these into game ideas to help us come up with a few initial ideas to based our final project on. We initially used metaphors, and, in groups, discussed the essential experience READ MORE
Market
My target audience is players between the ages of 12-25, and rated PEGI 12+. My game exists within the adventure genre, a genre with a wide appeal among gaming audiences. Recent research has shown that the adventure genre is one READ MORE
Platform
I think the most appropriate platform would be PC, using mainly WASD movement controls to move around the map. The benefit of PC is the accessibility, since I think this game is best suited to more casual players. There is READ MORE
Sound
Ambience The ambience is the foundation of the audio in games, and is important in creating a layered and believable environment within a game. Travelling Using MyNoise, I created an example of the kind of ambient noise that the player READ MORE
Levels
Each Circus level will have around 3 rounds. Between each level is a Travelling mode, where the player will get the opportunity to befriend the people in the circus, therefore gaining new potential skills during Set-Up Mode. There will be READ MORE
Mechanics
Travelling Mode During this mode, the player can travel around the train cars and the Pie car to talk and befriend the other members of the circus. When the player talks to certain players enough, and has enough successful interactions, READ MORE
Art
Characters Peters, Maximino ‘Maxi’ – Player Character Maxi and his mother immigrated to Mainesboren as political refugees from Menuss Lara when Maxi was 11. His mother became incredibly reclusive, paranoid and completely agoraphobic and by the time Maxi was 14 READ MORE