Original Project Proposal
Leicester Media School independent Study MA
PROJECT PROPOSAL FORM
During the MA I would like further develop my expertise and portfolio of work for the Game Art industry, I want to research into how mobile game production differs from pc or console game development. I will be calling on my own primary research from my final year on the Game Art design course here at DMU, where I have been making a playable game level for PC; As well as doing secondary research into how people in the industry already make games.
Who I have spoken to about this proposal:
Margaret Montgomerie
Michael Powell
Chris Wright
Craig Mooney
For the MA I would like to do a creative exploration of how mobile game assets are made. I will research into how companies are making their assets and art for games as well as using my primary research from my FMP at the moment. I want to then experiment with style and colour by creating a mobile ready character and companion and then move onto creating a small diorama environment for them to fit into. This will call on all of my skills from the Game Art Design degree as well as the research I will be doing for the MA. My main focus is to create a game for the final project in the MA; I would like to take all of my knowledge and make the art side of a game on a mobile platform, whist another student (James Broderick) works on the game play and technical side of the game; Using the research projects before as a basis for the final project. The main outcome of the MA is for me is to focus more in-depth into what I want to do whilst introducing new expertise into my portfolio.
Outline of what I want to do:
Research into mobile games and basic art direction.
Using the knowledge create a mobile game ready character and companion.
Make an environment diorama scene for the characters to fit into.
Use all of the research I have gathered over the course of my education and MA to create and art direct the creative side of a playable mobile game.
To support my research I will be looking into games such as “Fire Watch”, “The Witness”, “Ori and the blind forest”, “Lili” and “Rime”. I will also be looking into painting styles like “Studio Ghibli” as well as looking at articles and journals online from websites like “www.gamasutra.com”. I also have a lot of industry contacts and will be calling on them for advice; for art direction and mobile development I will speak to “Jolyon Webb” from Natural Motion and “Ben Jane” from “Penny Black Studios”.
In terms of what I will need to complete this MA I will need the same set up as in the 3rd year labs on the Game art design course. I know we are all fine with staying in that building and room if we can. The set up includes a PC that can run all the licensed software we need as well as 2 large monitors, a large wacom tablet and access to cintiq's.
Cat playing a tablet game [1]
Bibliography:
[1] GRIGDUSHER (2015) Cat playing on tablet. [Online image] Available from: https://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/tablet-intergration.45006/page-2 [Accessed 08/11/16]