XB1000 - Games Design Blog by Chris Lomax

04 - Board Game Project 28/11/2020 - We have been given our final project for the year which is 3 weeks long. (Deadline is Friday 11th December 2020 at 09:00am). For this task we were put into small groups to create a board game related to a digital game and had to choose one of the following: Ghost of Tsushima, Stardew Valley, Mortal Kombat 11, Call of Duty, Amongus or Jak and Daxter. Our group decided to go ahead and create a card game based on Mortal Kombat 11. When going through the planning phase, we were inspired by the game Hearthstone and one of the member's on our team plays Yu-Gi-Oh too which helped out a lot. Before sketching anything out, we had a long discussion talking about the base mechanics of the game, to get a feel for it and to make sure everyone was on the same page and knew what type of game we were aiming to create.  So we decided to research of 30+ characters from the base game of Mortal Kombat 11. As there were 4 people in our group, we researched 8 charact...

  03 - SketchUp (Level Design) 22/11/2020 - I handed my work in on-time for this project with the deadline being Thursday 19th November 2020 at 14:30. I completed my level design for The Last Of Us: Left Behind along with a document analysing the designers decisions made when creating this level. Please see my final level design along with a small analyse regarding the designers decisions. https://youtu.be/MmDEhSl7oMY?t=6084 (from 1:41:24 to 1:56:51)

03 - SketchUp (Level Design) 14/11/2020 - After half-term we were given a new project which is two weeks long. (Deadline is  Thursday 19th November 2020 at 14:30). For this task we have to do a level design from either The Last Of Us or Uncharted. I have played neither of these games and went a head to do my level design on The Last Of Us Left Behind. I based my level design off the Youtube link below (timestamps included). https://youtu.be/MmDEhSl7oMY?t=6084 (from 1:41:24 to 1:56:51) Here are my sketches / drafts showing the development of my project. (See below) During next week, I will be adding further objects to the level with a few finer details and a small analysis of the level (going into detail talking about some of the choices I felt the designer made).