Multimedia Year 2

I have just spent time reading 2 articles, on  design consideration and  The Early Stages of the Design Process GD D. These are both highly interesting writings and focus on board game startups with the do's and don'ts of board games, the design consideration teaches us small but very effective ways to improve on our board game designs such as color, rules, visuals and experience. part of this article speaks of the simplicity of making icons in your board game, certain games such as Drakon struggled as their coin icon closely resembled another icon within their game most interesting of all was the idea to add more game pieces then normal this is something that a lot of board games lack. for example a board game containing 55 cards should be shipped with maybe 65 an extra 10 just in case some go missing or get damaged. another important element was setting up a website for people to go to if they have queries about the rules of the game. The early stages of the desig...

Game Elements Upon reading: Formal Abstract Design Tools . I have compiled notes on what i read and what i found interesting, firstly,  what is a modern computer game made of: a modern computer game is made of technical disciplines which craft a players experience such as Design, Art, Audio, Levels, Code etc.. Games are always evolving but the most important thing for us as designers is to view other games as an experience to learn what works and to improve on what doesn't. when critiquing or reviewing others work it is not enough to just write "oh that was fun" or "oh this part was not fun".  in this article we learn about FADT (Formal Abstract Design Tools) which is an attempt to create a framework from which we can speak and describe games  in the post the writers says " Examining the phrase, we have: "formal," implying precise definition and the ability to explain it to someone else; "abstract," to emphasize the focus on u...

My Favorite Game  Hi my name is Eoin O'Reilly and this is my favorite game, Dead by daylight otherwise commonly known as DBD is an online Horror game. You and three of your best friends take battle against a stranger online, this stranger has a multitude of different choices of killers, From Michael Myers -Freddy Kruger and many more. The aim of the game is survival, The four survivors must work as a team to power 5 generators and escape the killer. Sounds simple enough right? All killers feature their own unique attacks and perks, for ex, "The Nurse" A killer designed by the development team, is quite slow but has an ability known as blink when activated she can teleport herself across the map and to your locations to follow up with this and to give her a helping hand in finding you, if your player or teammate is injured you have the option to heal them, to counter this the nurse has a perk known as "Nurses Calling" which allows her to see your outline...

This is my Test post for multimedia development In year 2 of cdm