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Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Concept Art

Project Idea

A quick overview of this project and what it aims to accomplish.

Concept Sketch 1

These sketches are what inspired the look of this project.
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Player collects notes...

The player is tasked with collecting specific notes, designated through the UI/heads up display. As Loops are created, new notes become items the player can grab. Considering an ability for player to choose 1 note, and then makes that the focused task.

notes become measures...

As the player collects simple notes, the song begins to play simple notes which make simple loops. Starting with the Bass Cleff, the player will start building the aspects of the bass line of the song. As the song grows, the tracks will will begin to offer the player options of how they play.

measures become loops...

The goal of this project is to create a game based solely on relaxing the mind and mood. This will separate itself from a “casual,” game, as this will be intentional in it’s objective. 
The idea of relaxing with a game is not new, but the concept of a game built for relaxation.

loops become songs...

These are examples from current productions reflect common traits seen in minds with AS, and therefore can be used to define and separate of what qualifies this new Genre - Mental Wellness
Visual Component Concept
Video games have been called exciting, violent, addicting and fun, they have also been seen as useful in terms of education and training. Why not as tools for mental wellness and relaxation?
Introduction to my Visual Component

Visual Component

This a basic blog to be used for the development of the visual component for the thesis project. It is set up in a Wiki/Blog format to allow better navigation.

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Subcategories

Design Documents

This document is geared to the brainstorming of events, states, and considerations for each asset of this game. 

 

The story idea

This current world is based around a giant oak tree which is the thread or the vine of life.

There's been a dish harmonic disturbance in this trees world upsetting and offsetting all of the fireflies, pixies and other magical creatures that live in this tree.

The tree is graying, becoming old and rotten because of this dissonance in it's life. 

The player character represents that need for harmony to come back in and bring about a balance back to the trees livelihood. The player character represents the actual user of this app looking for a means to just calm down and regain some composure.

Where the player has been sent from, who sent him and how he knew to be there are all mysteries. The song thread will weave around the tree and look like a giant roller coaster or water slide. A water slide in the clouds. This will be difficult to see at first because of all the firefly like Briggs swarming around chaotically.

The tree floats and lives off the actual nourishment of harmonies, rhythms and other aspects of music and relaxing mentalities. The player is not aware of the actual tree shape of the game level. And each branch of the song is just a branch on this large tree.

This would probably mean that I need to consider the construction of a song in terms of the frequency and hearts and where they would sit inside an actual tree formation. Would the base nose be in the roots or would it be in the inner rings things of that ilk

Development Wiki

This is the basics of what is going on in the game development, what the design is about, and where the art motivation comes from.