Journal Entry 3 HTI TIE IN REPORT games design studio project

My games design studio project is about a RTS(Real-Time Strategy) game, that is meant to target casual players. And my role in the studio project is mainly as a 3D modeller, and also help with some level of programming after the concept arts, modelling and animation parts are done.


Personally, i would seperate the whole project accordingly using the game design method of making the game. They are seperated into 5 stages, firstly, conceptualization of the whole game and game mechanics has to be done in order to know what the game is about, its various mechanics and what makes the game work.

Secondly, from the conceptualization of the game, and its mechanics, the characters that are to be present in the game are then conceptualized, and thus comes the second stage, concept art, for the artists.

For the third stage, 3D modelling should start and we are to model according to the completed character concept arts for the respective in-game characters, in-game props and buildings etc.

The fourth stage goes to animating the various character models that are done up in 3D modelling, making them perform simple animations such as the walking cycle and attacking animation.

Finally the last stage is somewhat the most important stage that is always on-going througout the entire project, scripting. It is what makes the character models appear in the game, what makes them move and lets the player experience the whole game.

The stage after which would be production, where the game is produced and playtested for bugs in digital format, by many different people. After which, bug fixes are implemented to the game to enhance gameplay.

As a whole, i have become more clear about the methods to create a 3D game, conceptualization, concept artwork, 3D modelling, scripting, playtesting. And I have understood that the 3D game cannot be completed by merely one person alone, but a team that works together. Most importantly for my part, i begin to understand more about creating 3D models and what methods work best for creating organic forms, as well as what works best for creating mechanical forms.

For creative processes, currently what i am able to do is merely adding on suggestions for improvements on other peoples ideas, rather than dishing out new ideas during the creative process. As for the group, the process flows well where the whole group sits down, forming a circle, and starts discussing about the idea, each person throwing out ideas to consider, while the others critique about it and votes which is the best idea to use. What i lack currently, is the ability to throw out new ideas, i can only give suggestions on improving other people's ideas.

What causes this would be having low self confidence, an example is when i think about an idea in my mind, and decides that it is not viable without speaking it out to the others. The other reason could be because of not going to many different places. Because i feel that a person that travels to many different places, is able to see many different amount of things and gain many more inspiration than a person that keeps visiting the same places over and over again.

To improve these problems, firstly i would probably have to speak out more in presentations in order to gain more confidence, and learn about the different ways in which we can gain more confidence. I would also have to meet and speak with more people in the future. Secondly, to solve the problem of not being able to offer new ideas, i would have to travel to different places, more places places that is unknown to me in the present.

Journal Entry 2 What i think of when i tot about HTI2

NEW ADDITION>> Well at first thought, HTI2 would obviously be studying about the history and the theory of ideas bla bla bla. And i decipher it as studying about how the theory of the ideas come about, who it originates from and where. The theory of ideas itself is one global topic because it encompasses every single thing in this world that has a meaning, words, languages,objects, hence i always felt that it is too large a topic to comprehend by myself. Sometimes, i got lost somewhere while answering what HTI2 is all about that i can only give one or two lines when explaining, it is as though merely re-thinking about the meaning of HTI2 gets a person more and more lost.

What HTI means to me, is probably the opportunity to think about things that i never would have touched on if i did not learn HTI. Stuffs that requires a deeper level of thinking.



The most important reason that the blog entires had not been done would be because after reading the requirements for each entry, the first thought i would think of would be how troublesome it would be to try and interpret what the teacher wants, and secondly how troublesome the thinking process would be if i were to spend time to think about this subject, then the next thought would be to leave this troublesome process for another day so that i can do other stuffs like playing and doing other assignments that are more urgent.
And the day to think about this troublesome process kept being pushed back until it was forgotten.

Other than trying to explain that i am just too lazy to do the journals through a whole paragraph, the other reason would be because i felt that most of the other people are not doing the journal as well and that nothing would happen if the journals would not be done.

Something that would motivate me to do the journals. Presently, i really could not think of something that can motivate me to do journals, except to do the journals in order to let my mind think about more complex things. However that motivation would contradict the thought that would de-motivate me in my mind, because the thought making me not do the journals would be being too lazy to think about complex things.

The second thing that would motivate me in doing the journals would be when i know that majority of the people, has done up most of their journals, however this thought would again not succeed because the fact is that most of them had not.

The interesting thing that i notice is that the thoughts for motivating me, actually links directly with the thoughts that de-motivates me, and thus i have reached a conclusion that only when the thoughts that de-motivate me dissapears will i gain the motivation to do the journals.