Gameplay
I want to represent the stress by having the set-up mode timed, with added confusion by having different abilities to control through which have different rules. There will be two main gameplay modes, ‘Travelling’ and ‘Set-Up’. When the game starts, READ MORE
Overview
Stellars Circus is a Point and Click Adventure Stealth game set in a fantasy world about a fugitive who joins the circus to escape the police. My major and minor focuses are art and mechanics. The Essential Experience I have READ MORE
UI Design
Shapeshifting animation concept Deciding how large I should make the spotlight, based on feedback I decided to make the spotlight the size of four squares: My friend told me that it looked strange for the place where the spotlight is READ MORE
Narrative
This week we focused on narrative and character design, looking at character tropes. In my game I want to focus on telling a linear story. Here is some notes that I made: In my game, the main antagonist doesn’t become READ MORE
Lies – Creative Writing Piece
This is a piece of creative writing I did, which is a part of the prequel to my games narrative. Within this piece, I start to set up the world in which my game exits and also introduce the origin READ MORE
Character Concepts
Concept Art and References Gregg Barnes Since I wanted to focus on the Circus, I decided to look into concept artists that worked with making stage costumes, since these costumes tend to be more dramatic and bolder due to the READ MORE
Visiting a Circus
Over Christmas I visited Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park to see two Circus shows there: Zippos Circus ‘Candyland’ and Cirque Berserk ‘Thunderbolt’. The goal of this trip was to discover more about how Circuses actually function, and what kinds of READ MORE
Essential Experience
Establishing the essential experience for the player can be very important in developing an engaging game concept. Conveying the experience of a specific emotion creates a unique game experience for the player. Based on the feeling of imposter syndrome, a READ MORE
Worldbuilding
Schell (2019, p. 369) Successful Transmedia Work Many very popular transmedia have a strong world behind it. These worlds are intuitive, allowing the creation of many stories within that world. This is common in media that becomes a big franchise, READ MORE
American Railroad Circuses
One of the most famous American Circuses was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. They were such a phenomenon that their arrival was anticipated to the extent that shops closed, schools were cancelled and factories shut down (Davis, READ MORE