Logo

 

Logo features prominently red, black and white.

this shows a family connection while also showing

that the company produces games  for a mature family

 audience. PG-13. MBG stands for 

Maximus Boethius Games

Game poster and logo

 

Poster shows Egypt and a temple on a hill. The title is featured along with creator name, company name, website, and a slogan. The logo is an idea for  logo and is not the final result.

Ideas, mood board and mind map

*Currently leaning more towards a dynamic between a husband and wife rather than a father and son for the game story.

 

Poster analysis

 

features of a games poster

• Main title prominently featured in clear view
• Main character or Main part of the game featured as the focus of the poster such as the Halo array in the Halo game poster
• The name or the developer that has created the game
• simple design that uses minimal colour to captivate the eye
• silhouette or outlines of characters, places or objects
• realistic in some cases to show the realism of the game and the graphical capabilities of the game
• some show the credits to people who worked on the game.
• a release date is shown on different posters

Research

 Story types

• Narrative principle elements of storytelling 

• Plot

• Character

• World

• Language

• The three-act structure

• ACT 1(setup): introduction

• ACT 2(confrontation): rising action, stakes get higher

• ACT 3(resolution): crisis, falling action

• Todorov's narrative theory helps the viewer of the film to understand plot. When the film has a distinct narrative it becomes more organised and structured. A main part of the narrative theory is the structure of a narrative. Todorov theorised that a film is separated into five main stages:

• Equilibrium

• Disruption

• Recognition

• Repair the Damage

• Equilibrium Again

• Cinderella 

• 

• Starts with terrible life

• Catches a break and has a chance at a new life

• Experiences a better life

• Conflict pushing back toa terrible life

• Gos back to the start were life was terrible

• Saved in some way and ends up with the better life

• Vladimir Propp

• Identified 31 functions of stories

• 7 types of story structures

Game ideas

• Main character Indiana Jones or another adventurer based off of his design.

• Story starts off in the adventurers home town such as an old university town or a city, events take place that flings the character into conflict sending them into a new setting such as a jungle or desert. Desert would be a better setting as the idea of pharaohs and ancient egypt is a good start, perhaps the main character is looking for an ancient key to an ancient vault with treasures in the vault are 2 items one that the adventurer wants and one that the antagonist wants.

• Perhaps the adventurer's father dies and he finds his father's notes detailing an artifact that could bring him back to life.

• He would face conflict by reaching the destination only to find out nothing is there or the antagonist had been there before and he must now track them down.

• He could use the artifact to bring his loved one back from the dead but it goes wrong and he has to face them and get over their death creating a closing where the death of the loved one is finally accepted.

• Maybe after he finds the artifact or key some sort of ancient evil is released such as a mummy or aliens, perhaps a zombie or manifestation of the main characters fears such as accepting that his lost family member is dead and will never come back.

Game parts

• Game concept

• Core game mechanics

• Gameplay features

• Gameplay breakdown

• Project scope breakdown

Character concept