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Scenery and Platforms

Since my character is based on the wendigo, a mythical forest monster, it made sense to go for a more horror themed platformer.

Trees:

It’s only natural for forests to have trees. These trees are not only decorative but have branches that serve as platforms as well. I’ve only used one type of tree in this demonstration but for my full game I would like to incorporate a variety of tree shapes with different platforms.

Floating Rocks:

These floating rocks would serve as moving platforms. Players will have to climb trees in order to reach them. These harder to reach places is where I would place any treasures or items.

Clouds:

The clouds are just a simple addition to the background and I made them purple to make them look more dark and unsettling.

Moon:

I added the moon to the background to make it clear that it is night time which adds to the dark tone of the scene.

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Character Designs of Issei Hyoudou from High School DxD

The last design of my shirtless Issei still needs work Lol
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Setting and Genre in Final Fantasy X

Final Fantasy X is a fantasy game with amazing world building that anyone can infer its genre from just a quick look at some of its set pieces, character design, and world design.


Above is an image of the stadium the in game citizens inhabiting the world use to play a fantasy game called blitzball. Essentially it’s fictional soccer but underwater. You can see that the stadium is floating above the ocean and the sphere of water is where the sport actually takes place. You can tell the genre of where it’s set quickly from looking at it.


Here’s another picture from a forest area in the game. It is beautifully designed and you can quickly tell its fantasy from the unrealistic aspects of this scenery. There is a kaleidoscope colored tree sitting on top of a lake here.

Lastly, here’s a photo of a major city in the game. It has unusual architecture for it to have been designed with the modern world in mind, and looks distinctly new and fantasy. There is a water bridge in the background too which by all means is impossible to occur in real life. All these elements tell you the genre of the setting.

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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege: genre and setting

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is a first-person shooter game,in the game, players can choose different special agents for the role and each character has different equipment, and you can put different small configurations on top of the guns, and each agent has a unique skill.

These are the cadres that the attacking currently has
These are the cadres that the defense currently has
This is the modification of the weapon is also my current favorite weapon

The objective of the game is that the attacking side must attack the destination and achieve the conditions, while the defending side must prevent the attacking side from achieving the victory conditions. The attacking side can destroy walls and also rope drop on the outside of the building, and these destructible surfaces can be used by the defending side to sneak in and take advantage of. The weapons in the game can injure teammates, and the character cannot be revived after death until the next turn.

This game has many modes of play such as bomb mode, hostage mode, Tactical Realism, Terrorist Hunt, Situations, and sometimes some fun entertainment mode

Disrupting the system

The game’s destruction system is one of its main features, the game’s fragile materials (such as wood, glass, etc.) composed of the surface can be destroyed, including walls, ceilings and floors. These materials can also be destroyed with gunshots or melee attacks in addition to explosives, and special explosives are required to break through walls if they are reinforced.

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Grounded: Setting

Grounded is an open-world survival game being developed by Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studio. The game is still in it’s early access development stage and is only available on Windows 10 and Xbox One at this moment. The player must survive as a shrunken human in a bug infested garden, while monitoring their hunger and thirst.

Garden Setting – Telescope
Garden Setting -Lilypond (Juice box can provide a “water source”)

Grounded uses beautiful scenery to bring the garden to life making the player want to explore it even more. Throughout the garden, the player will explore and find large scaled items and trinkets which can not only help with navigating the terrain but can sometimes also provide a usefulness to the player. (Juice boxes and soda cans can provide a small amount of fluids to keep the player hydrated.)

Garden Setting – Oak Tree (Bee towards the top left)
Garden Setting – Spider fight while trying to collect Grass (I ran away lol)
Crafting Menu – Basic Tools

A large part of the game focuses on exploring the beauty of the garden and it’s setting. This can’t be done without first learning how to craft basic tools for necessary survival and also learning how to focus on keeping your players thirst and hunger meters full.

After the player has learned basic survival, they can explore the garden and terrain to find more learnable things. This also includes trying to survive against insects like solider ants, bees, mosquito’s and horrifying spiders.

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Total War: Warhammer 2 – Genre and Setting

Total War: Warhammer 2 is a real-time strategy game created by
Creative Assembly. This game has multiple layers of gameplay that involve different genres. This is why I think it is a good choice for this assignment.

Arguably the main portion of the game – campaign mode is the one worth discussing. Upon selecting the faction or race you want to play as. You will dive into the vast imaginary Warhammer world with many different other factions around you. As shown in the picture, you will decide where your army goes to represented by the single large-scale character on the map. As well as the direction of where you want your faction to develop. It is essentially a chess game mixed with business simulation.

In this game, you have more options to win than making your army stump on your enemy. You have the option to use diplomacy to seek help, profit even demands confederation with foreign factions if your sheer military percent and political pressure is strong enough.

Now the most exciting part of the game is the battle scene. When yours and a hostile army clash you can control your troops in battle. In this game, the variety of the units and the scale of the battle relative to the details that it has is truly unheard of. Creative Assembly has been producing Total War games for decades. The experience they brought to this game combined with the fascinating Warhammer Fantasy lore framed out an immersive and exquisite game experience.

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Valheim: Open World Survival Game

Valheim is been very popular since the release in February 2nd, Valheim sets a record with over half-million concurrent players in a short time, there are a lot of people playing this game for the past few weeks, Valheim is a open world survival game inspired by the viking culture for 1-10 players, the game is currently in early access on steam.

Narrative: You start your journey with your friends or alone in the fantasy world inspired by Norse mythology and Viking culture, you have to survive by building a base, hunting animals and killing enemies in order to get stronger.

Puzzle: You have to travel to different places to find different enemies in order to be able to unlock some new bosses, by getting new things in different places your character gains knowledge and that is how you unlock new weapons, new armor and new stuff in the world, there are 5 different bosses in different lands inside the game, by defeating each boss your character learn new things, and there are domains in the world which you can get very important materials to build things such as portals, boats and tools.

Exploration: Travel with friends in different ways to discover new lands, there are also rocks that has letter which tells you about the story, traveling around the world is the most exciting part of the game because you get to explore a lot of beautiful things and gathering new resources to craft weapons to survive because the world is full of dangerous enemies.

These are screenshots of me and my friends exploring the world:

Beautiful Landscape
Beautiful Sea
Beautiful Sky
Beautiful world
Beautiful night
and the colorful weather system.

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Dead by Daylight: Setting and Genre

The recent game I played is Dead by Daylight. It is an asymmetric survival horror video game developed by Behavior Interactive released in 2016.
Narrative: You either play as a killer or survivor in a randomly generated map. This is a multiplayer game so you can play with friends or random people.
Puzzle: As a Survivor, you have to work together with three other survivors to fix generators and open gates to escape. You can also find items in chest such as a medkit, flashlight, toolbox, hatch key or map. As a killer, you have to hack them all down and find hooks to hang their bodies until they get killed by the Entity shown above. You also can damage generators to put their repair progression back to 0.
Exploration: Dead by Daylight’s setting is a purgatory. There are several realms even ones from horror movies like The Saw or Silent Hill. You can be in the open like in a forest or field and/or in a building with up to three floors.
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BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Setting and Genre.

Hello my name is travis rosado and today i would like to talk about one of my favrite fighting game, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. Now as I stated before blazblue: cross tag battle is a fightng so the genre is pretty self explanatory. But let me explain a little bit more about is. Blazblue: cross tag battle/bbtag for short is a 2d cross over fight game between the blazblue universe, the persona 4 universe, the undernight in birth universe and the RWBY universe.

1. the Narrative: now there is a story mode for bbtag. To basically sum up the story mode for bbtag, bbtag takes place in a strange world to where all your charaters from the blazeblue world, persona 4 world, under night inbirth world and RWBY world, are set to do battle via 2 on 2 by what is called the voice. the voice gives a simple taske to everyone who was sent to the strange world which is to reach the goal with a special gem that is called the key stone, bring the key stone to the goal you and the characters from your world can go home. finally there are mutiple endings for each world you choose.

2. the combat: the combat is very simple to understand its your standerd 2d 2v2 fighing. Supporting things like assist, which is the second character you choose on your team or the main character you choose can come into battle and assist you mid battle and yes you can swich between characters mid battle.

3. the lobby: the hub world is where you can access everything the game has to offer, this means the stroy, acade mode, training mode online mode which also has a lobby too, ect.

this is the online lobby.
this is the main lobby.

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Guilty Gear – Genre and Setting

I’ll be focusing on the Guilty Gear franchise, a fighting game series by Arc System Works. The first game was published in 1998 and has continued to make sequels and spinoffs. The game I’d like to focus on is the second installment Guilty Gear XX.

Guilty Gear XX #Reload All Characters [PS2] - YouTube

Guilty Gear’s aesthetic comes from its heavy metal influence. The character select screen makes it abundantly clear the edgy and violent feel of the game, and the characters reflect the feel.

GGXX Tumblr posts - Tumbral.com

As a fighting game, the characters have to contrast with the backgrounds in order to stick out during gameplay. Along with the characters on the screen, a health bar and super meter is kept in a place where it’s visible at all times regardless of the character’s position. They maintain an essential part of the mechanics of the game while still staying true to the games narrative of rock and metal.

“May’s Ship” from Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
The Mayship stage reflects the technological advancements made in Guilty Gear’s sci-fi narrative.
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AD2127, otherwise known as The United States of America, reflects the intensity and aftermath of a war against monsters called “Gears.” It’s never explicitly told, but the country is so desolate it’s no longer named.
“Babylon” from Guilty Gear XX
The serenity in the Babylon stage showcases the end of a country we have no knowledge of in game. It supports the further mysterious and engaging world the game has to offer.

The world of Guilty Gear is a mix of both the new and old, with the in-game lore exploring magic and ancient artifacts that give people power. Despite the simple premise of a fighting game, the creators made it clear to its audience that there is indeed a story behind it.