Learning Agreement and Issues

Before the start of our project we were tasked with filling out a learning agreement, which in a nut shell is meant to be our self appointed task for the upcoming year, to put more simply, the agreement is what I should be doing instead of following my brief.

But I feel that communication between students and teachers was very muddled, as each teacher was describing the brief and task differently. With Marie Claire giving us the impression that we had to craft an entire level and Lothar Zhou making it appear we only had to create assets for the game and as we had to create these over the holiday it became very confusing as time has gone one.

Only now [1/29/2013 - 16:48] with a few weeks in do I have an understanding of what is asked of me and I have sent off a brand new agreement to Loathar, Marie Claire and Nigel.

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[21/1/2013] - Monday, 11:28

For my learning agreement I shall create an interactive demo of my game, this will allow the 'player' to control an animated character on screen, the character will be made and animated using very simple lineart techniques, while the background and platforms shall be made via digital painting.

Hopefully I will achieve a similar affect as seen above, most likely not to that grandeur, I will hopefully come out of this brief being able to paint full scenes to some degree in photoshop.

To get these assets working as a demo, I will be using the free to use 2D video game software known as Game Salad, I shall spend what time I have at the start of the project learning to use this program so that I made craft my assets for it, rather than having to awkwardly work my assets into it.

The assets of my game will be designed and worked from the previous project I did last term, this way I will have a design aesthetic to follow from.
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Bibliography

http://www.edge-online.com/review/rayman-origins-review/

http://www.nomudagames.com/blog/