Object Shots

Here are all the pictures that were taking to make panoramas and the photoshop game asset that have yet to be edited.

Note: some images will not be used.

Script for the Game

This is the script that I (Mike Leeburn) have created for the game, the group should take a look through it and make sure that everyone agrees it is adequate for the idea we have.

In the game that we are creating for our project there will be 5 characters that will feature;

·         The Mayor

·          The Two Museum clients

·         The Mayors Wife

·         The janitor

Each of these will have interaction with the character. This interaction will be either conversations or hinting to the player how to solve certain things. The script will be lay out in a random order, this is to show that each time the player re-clicks the NPC a different line of speech will play. This is the script for each character:

At the start of the game, after the beginning scene has played the two museum clients will be stood in the museum hall, ready to greet the player. This will be there script:

Lucy: “Welcome to the Museum, it’s nice to see you back again. I’m glad you’re here actually, some strange things have been happening lately”

Claire: “Indeed, It appears that a weird magic has taken over the museum. It has brought a spoon to life and it’s a right menace! It’s been hiding the artifacts all over the museum.”

Lucy: “We were wondering if you wouldn’t mind helping us find everything? You’d be doing us a great favour.”

 These Mini-Game could be placed in any room, this will change who the person who interacts is so I will create multiple possible interactions just in case.

Mini-Game (Maze Game) Interaction

The player is standing in the same room as the lockbox with the maze on it and clicks on the NPC

Character speech:

“I saw the spoon messing with that lockbox over there, that seems a good place to look”

“You should take a look around the room, I’m sure the spoon would have hidden something in here”

 “The spoon was talking about locking things up when he was In here before…Weird”

That’s three scripts for the Maze game, this will be enough I think as it isn’t specific enough that it has to be a certain NPC but it’s generic enough to be adapted by any character allowing us to keep our options open.

Mini-Game (Object Location) Interaction

The player is standing in a room that has a hidden object in it and clicks on the npc

Character Speech:

“Have you tried looking in high places? That magical spoon seemed to like hiding things, it would be a good place to look”

“I saw the magical spoon messing around near those bookshelves before…”

“You know if you can’t reach something you should try standing on something, that would help”

“Try piling objects up to reach places you wouldn’t normally be able to”

I think this will be enough speech for character interaction in the same room as this mini-game for the same reason as the first mini-game.

Mini-Game (Jigsaw Mini-Game) Interaction

The player is in a room that has a jigsaw piece hidden in then interacts with an NPC

Character Speech:

“That jigsaw piece is quite suspect, I wonder what the picture is.”

“I saw some pieces of a jigsaw on the other side of the room, I couldn’t figure out what the picture was. Maybe you should take a look?”

“That picture turned into a jigsaw when the spoon was finished it, maybe you should fix it? It could be important...”

This character speech is once again generic enough to be completed by any of the NPC’s so that once the game has been designed it will be a simple implementation of the corresponding sound file.

Mini-Game (Connect the Dots) Interaction

The player enters the room with the connect the dots mini-game in it and interacts with an NPC

Character Speech:

“That picture turned into that weird set of dots after the magical spoon messed with it, I wonder what they mean…”

“The dots seem to make a shape, try connecting them in that shape”

“I wonder what would happen if you connected the dots together…”

This speech will be triggered when the NPC is pressed, each time the NPC is pressed a different speech will play, this will be selected at random.

Mini-Game (Argument with the polar bear) Interaction

The player interacts with the polar bear, whilst arguing with the polar bear the player will be given 3 options to choose from to argue back with. This will be text based.

 “What makes you think you deserve the object I am hiding? I’ll make you a deal, if you can answer these questions correctly you can have it”

Polar bears argument:

“What was the sugar caster used for?”

“What is the mustard pot made out of?”

“What was the Gill measure used to measure?” – I.E. Liquids such as liquors or wine.

“Which object was made using Electroplated Britannia Metal?”

“When was the condiment set created?”

The polar bear will ask 5 questions about the vessels already discovered and will only give the final object which will be the Tea Canister to the player if all questions are answered correctly, the polar bear will mock the player if answered wrong.

Polar bear mocking:

“Are you serious?”

“That’s not right!”

“Did you actually learn anything here?”

Mini-Game (Spinner) Interaction

The player will be in the room that has a sealed door containing an item and there will be an NPC in this room, when interacted with this will be the speech;

Character speech:

“That spinner on the door seems to be a messed up picture, try correcting it?”

“That door looks interesting…”

“Maybe you should try spinning the sections around on that thing on the door, it looks like a picture of some kind”

“The spoon was in here before messing with that sealed door”

Once again, this is generic enough for the NPC so that it’s not overly important who is placed in each room.

At the end of the game once the player has collected all of the items the two clients from the museum will appear and interact with the player:

Claire: “Thank you so much, that spoon really has been a menace.”

Lucy:  “Yes, you really have helped us sort this mess out, and you’ve learnt something too!”

Claire: “We do hope you’ll come back soon and look at the museum, there’s always lots of fun and interesting things happening here”

Lucy: “Thanks a lot, do come back!”

Thursday 24th Lesson Notes

During this lesson we received feedback from our pitch presentations, we were required to take on board the comments taken by the client, what we did well and what we needed to improve on. What we needed to improve on was our concept, our overall idea is strong but we did not present the visuals well enough to the client. One idea that they commented on being quite good was that we had not finalised an art style as we wanted the opinion of the client as they would have the best idea of what would be suitable for our age group.

We also have to prepare for our nest lesson as we will be photographing the box of objects that we have been assigned, these images will be used in our game so they will have to be high resolution and well lit, I would also like to look at the possibility of creating a panorama so the player can get a full 360 view of the object.

Storyboards

Here are  the storyboars for the first three mini games and the opening animation.