New Brief - OUDF406

We had our new brief today which was to create an environment in UNITY.
There's three options to choose from -


• Fairytale Cottage or Small Tower or Fairytale Setting
( some ideas – Red Riding Hood Cottage, Rapunzel’s Tower, Gingerbread House, Small Treasure Island )

• Crashed UFO site
( some ideas – Area 51 Desert, ‘B Movie’ Forest setting, The Moon )

• A Reconstructed Historical Section of Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds – Serious Game Application
( some ideas – The Church, Guest House, Cloisters )


I love them all  :( Annabeth said to us basically that we could think outside the box like for example it didn't have to be a fairytale like red riding hood it could be a fairy tale that we could make up ourselves so the brief is pretty open. 
We started by opening unity and doing a few exercises to figure out the buttons and make a simple room then make a simple shipyard, we then went onto a little bit of texturing but i found that a little hard to keep up with at first. I'm sure i'll be fine though, i have a really good feeling about Unity - think i may have found my calling here. I've always been fascinated by environments and big open world play games such as Morrowind and Skyrim. I love nothing more in a game them a good old fashioned scenery that takes your breath away. 


I took notes from what she was saying and she made a lot of good points - 

• Think about the background story - this should reflect the environment 
• draw a sketch/maya or even make a model to get a better idea of your environment 
• mood boards - a few but not loads - especially not in the PP presentation!!
• Follow the book - 'The computer game design course' 

I went to the library and got 2 books out to help me on my way through these next few months, my first steps are gonna be the background, i'll think of quite a few ideas and then narrow it down making 3 ideas strong. Then for the presentation i can get feed back and see which idea people will think work best. I'm sure by this point though i'll know which one i'll like best, i have a few already :)

So here's what we did today anyway - screenshots of step by steps i did and some of the tutorials we did 

<3 UNITY 


here's screenshots and notes i took from the first two lessons...

here's a scan in of a sketch i did of what the shipyard would look like before i started -