Week 21 start of the off the map project
Today we start the off the map project.
the off the map project is in fact based on a competition with the same name that is ran by game city in conjunction with the British library in order to bring to life British cultural heritage in the medium of games.
An example is last year teams where asked to produce work based on Alice in wonderland, with art, information and other bits and bobs provided by the library.
This year however we were asked to look at Shakespeare, with 3 themes to choose from:
-Macbeth/ castles
-the tempest
-midsummers night’s dream/ forests
We had to work in a pre-chosen team of 6 to create a level as complex or simple as we wanted.
Once we found out who was in our team, we sat around together to figure out exactly what we wanted to create this project, this was because we needed a definite goal and we could pin down exactly what we wanted right now we wouldn’t waste time changing things later and we could start braking down all the things we have to do into manageable and timetable able chunks now.
We decided to go for midsummers night’s dream, this is because we felt we knew this piece the best (as most of us had read it), not only that but we felt we could incorporate some very trippy and whimsical imagery into this project.
E assigned 2 people to characters, 2 people to environment work,
And 2 people to props and engine work.