it was entirely my fault that the group didnt have the finished game.

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this kinda me of cells… and particles floating within the environment

kelly: this also remind me of jenni’s pollen thingy for dlf! 

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when i saw this is kinda remind me of the veins and how we thinking of what it might look like. would be cool if while you’re fighting thru the veins, iwhich is transparent you could somehow see the outside of it.. well anyway i thought the pink energy looks really good in the tube. 

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this is showing what i showed you guys earlier.. would be cool if this could be intergrated with our final cancer boss. if you look closely you can see that he has this aura that makes him look kinda disgusting. but cool in a way… and i did not name him willy….

this is an experiment i did with the render style in unity that i would like to use in the next project.

** once i published it to the web, there was a few errors. The web player load very slowly as the file size is massive. Some textures are flicking like crazy and the walrus are still missing their stomach. I had to again.. delete more walruses from my colony.

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at this stage i’ve also added water sounds as embient background to add to the environment

ok.. turns out my walrus is still missing stomach,. and i’m running out of ways to fix it. i began to build up my colony.

As i was adding to my colony.. i’ve noticed that the game-play started to lag.. due to the amount of objects i have in the game. I had to delete over half of my walrus colony in order to get it to run… “normally” it still runs pretty slow. My intial intention was to have them triggered by how close you are. When you get close to them, they will start dancing.. but.. i’m having issues with that… it crashes everytime i want to put a trigger on it.

and here it is in unity

i have also added some fog in there as well.

next step: get water effect working, put models in.

i was looking for some inspiration to start my environment and i came across the movie ‘happy feet‘ … perfect! the storyline of the movie happy feet is about how a bunch of starving penguins dance to get attention from the rest of the world.. so i decided to use that in my environment.

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environment story

In the cold harsh lands of the border of Russia, an island that man has yet to discover, lived a very sacred Walruski colony. The island is scattered with ancient crystals and the Walruski believe that these crystals are their ancestors and they are here to protect us. ‘We must not let the intruders come and take our ancestors away’. The Walruski is most known for their unusual behaviour, dancing. They dance to pay tribute to the ancestors, they dance to fear off the enemy.

 key features:

• dancing walrus colony  that reacts more vigirously when player get close to them.
• foggy
• hidden crystals that plater could find

glacier and ice caves:

crystals:

Introduction
Neurox is exploring the idea of the power of the media/internet/tv. Information is everywhere, its surround us everywhere we go. We’re absorbing it even though we don’t know that we are doing it, we are. The player in Neurox will be able to control the character’s behaviour/mind and monitored how much information is being processed through the brain in order to make the right decision at the end of each stage/level. If the player fails to maintain a “healthy” level of energy/information, the player will fail at the end of the game.

Background
The idea of Information Overload refers to the state of having too much information, which could be from a rapidly increasing rate of new information being produced or an increase in the available channels of incoming information.

Game Levels/Environment
The Neurox game and environment will take place within the human brain. There are 3 different levels of the game, mild information overload, medium information overload and extreme information overload.

The environment of the game will take place in the brain system, the source of the conscious, cognitive mind.

examples of the enviroment

Level One: Your Mum
The first level is the “mild information overload”. The player will control the character in a “home” environment where his/her mum will be in control, telling you what do pick up, what to do and what to believe. The task as a player is to meet up with all those favours and chores. At the end, his/her mum as the “first boss” of the game will challenge the player.

Level Two: The Television
The second level is the “medium information overload”. The player will control the character in a room-type space/environment where there are televisions lying around, putting news and new information out non-stop. The task as a player is to decide which channels he/she want to receive the information from. There will be obstacles (Junk information) that the player have to destroy (draw energy out of them) or avoid it. At the end, the Television as the “second boss” of the game will challenge the player.

Level Three: The Internet/Information Master
The third level is the “extreme information overload” and the last level. The player will control the character in a “space” of pixels environment where there is a lot (overload) of information as well as new items. At the end the Information master will challenge the player, if the player succeed in destroying him, victory!

Player/Character

The player will start of as a wisp of energy. Using only itself to drain energy of the mobs (enemies) at the start, the wisp will slowly gain more power/special abilities from pick up items, mobs and boss’s drops and the information that is floating around the environment.

As the character, the wisp of energy slowly progress on to a higher lever, the character will transform depending on the player’s customisation. The player can extend and enhance the capacity of information and control over the character behaviour by picking up new “useful” information and weapons. The player can decide whether they want their character to have high defensive skills, or high attacking skills, or a mixture of both.

The energy (health points, hp) will be represented as KJ (kilojoules). Each player will start of with 100 KJ, which can be increased by a number of armour, or items people collect.

Each character will have a “Neurox Meter” that the player will monitored at all times while playing the game. It is a meter that determines the player energy and information capability. When the meter reaches the “crisis” point, it means that there is too much junk information and the character is using up all its energy to maintain that information. If the character is on low energy, he will start losing the “useful” information that shaped his character, ie his special abilities and he won’t be able to overcome the boss at that level. There is also a case where a player might choose to only receive junk information, as a result, the player will fail at destroying the bosses at each level as there wasn’t enough “useful” information in killing it.

Items/Information
There are 2 types of information: the “Junk” and the “Useful” information. When you absorb the “Junk” information, the junk will take up your energy and it could harm you in long term where as if you pick up the “Useful” information, you will earn special abilities towards your attack or defence skills. There are also items that will regenerate your energy (Energy Vessels) for a short period of time that you can pick up randomly from the environment.

There are two types of weapons, defensive weapons and attacking weapons. For example, if the player chooses to build up a strong defensive character, he/she will pick up mainly defensive weapons, energy shield. If the player chooses to build up a strong offensive character, he/she will pick up mainly offensive weapons, Electromega Gun.

Genre

• Action
• RPG
• Adventure

Platform

• PC
• MAC
• PlayStation 3
• XBOX 360

“World of Warcraft (commonly known as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unlike previous games in the Warcraft series, World of Warcraft is a MMORPG, not a real-time strategy game. As with other MMORPGs, people control a character avatar within a persistent game world, exploring the landscape, fighting monsters, performing quests, building skills, and interacting with NPCs, as well as other players. The game rewards success with money, items, experience and reputation, all of which in turn allow players to improve their skill and power. Players can level up their characters from level one to level 60, level 70 if they have The Burning Crusade expansion. Upon release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, players will be able to attain level 80 after purchasing the expansion.^[8] In addition, players may opt to take part in battles against other players of an enemy faction, in PvP battlegrounds or in normal world zones subject to the rules in place on the particular server. Duels can also be fought between members of the same or opposing factions, although these do not provide tangible rewards. Many players also choose to join guilds. Short-term parties and raid groups can be formed to conduct raids against enemy territories and instances.” Wikipedia

The reason I have chosen WoW was because I play the game myself. And to me, the game level has high detail of intensity and interaction. It is not control by a storyline.. the player can choose how they want their character to look, or how they want to quests and who they want to quests with.. to me that is the most important part of the game. The environments also fascinate me. How the player can interact, leave traces of footsteps on the snow and splashes when you swim.. but other than that.. you can’t physically harm the environment.

What I like about the game/environment:

• Lighting
• High level of details when it comes to textures
• Player interaction and customization
• Character develoment - being able to level your character and choose what “armor” to wear
• Weather changes - each time you log in.. the weather changes depending on the time of the day
• WoW’s currency and economy (Gold) - being able trade and sell your stuff

and… all of that… makes the game.. addictive!

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