FMP Research - Week 1 - 18/03

Miles Carr
Jan 1, 2019
2 min read

Updated: Jun 13, 2019

My FMP research really helped me come up with the idea of Realism. I researched some useful information and thought of different themes and concepts I could make my game around. I did some theme research first. I made 3 mind maps related to Elements, Fantasy and Realism. These are all themes I based some ideas around. I made mind maps and put keywords around them based on the theme. I also went ahead to show some examples using artwork and pictures related to the theme. I did some genre research, gathering different genres and giving some examples of different media related to the genre. I also made some mood boards to show the inspiration and to show the ideas more. I imported images related to the ideas and how they can be used. Each image had a purpose which showed the different concepts of the ideas. I have images such as the different elements, mages and goblins and lastly, mountains and forests.

These can be seen here: https://milescarr.wixsite.com/milescarrfmp/themes

Artist research is after the theme research. On this page, I talked about my initial idea and what I had in mind for the setting and atmosphere. I did this so I can have a base idea ready and set just in case changes need to be made to the main game aspect. I then went ahead and researched 2 artist and 1 game development company. I researched an artist from Valve who worked on the Half-Life series as the art department leader. This should help me get an overall understanding of 3D Textures. I researched an artist from Rockstar games who helped do some work with GTA2 mainly focusing on the cut scenes, which should help me with potential in game cut scenes I may create. Last but not least, I researched Naughty Dog with their most iconic series, Uncharted, mainly looking at the environment and how it is made.

The research can be viewed here: https://milescarr.wixsite.com/milescarrfmp/research

Before starting on Task 1, I created a new page and placed all of my SWOT analysis in there. I did a SWOT on all 3 potential ideas and 1 on myself. I explored all the SWOTs that each project has. This helps me identify which idea is strongest and one that I can go ahead with doing. The SWOT on myself helped me identify my skills and progression before going forward with this project.