The final project I am going to create for my thesis is a video following TCNJ’s best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players as they compete in tournaments throughout the semester. This video will incorporate my editing and storytelling skills, and I will try to learn motion graphics to improve the quality of the video. The… Continue reading Luke’s Prototype Plan
Prototype 1 I plan to make a first-person shooter framework. Basic things like: ammunition counting, health statistics, simple enemies, and use basic gun-play mechanics. Players will be able to move shoot, reload, and lose the game. I hope to learn where I could improve the basics to make it more appealing or unique to the… Continue reading Chad’s Prototype #1
Prototype Ideas: The first idea for a prototype I have been milling about is drafting a layout of the space in which the player will be able to explore. This includes placement of interactables, organization of playable space, and possibly even the visual aesthetics of the playable space. I hope this will better focus the… Continue reading Albright – Prototype Plan
Prototype Ideas: 1. What I chose to make: I plan to tape out an area on the ground for my first prototype that measures out an area with the dimensions of 8.5ft/20ft/13.5ft. For better visualization, this will be an outline of the actual space one would be living in, in the tiny home I am… Continue reading Jamie’s Prototype Plan
This week I chose to go back to focusing on the creative aspect of creating a visual novel, mainly the visuals part. Since I don’t have a tablet I went through various YouTube tutorials on cleaning hand-drawn sketches and line work in Photoshop. From what I gathered, it seems that the most common ways of… Continue reading Aaron’s Research Update #3
This week, I mostly just talked to people about what my thesis project is on (pitch practice? !) and continued looking at different home designs I would like. All of the people I talked to from different backgrounds such as Political Science, Interactive Multimedia, Marketing, Finance, English, Computer Science, and Computer and Electrical Engineering they… Continue reading Jamie’s Research Update #3
One of the reasons sometimes cited for why Web Accessibility is a necessary and useful thing is that it makes websites more usable for everyone. This week, I finally found two studies that support this argument. A 2016 study by Sven Schmutz et al. (link) had 61 participants without disabilities use three different versions of… Continue reading Kiernan’s Research Update 3
This week I mainly finished the story for the demo portion and continued to work on the animatic I have planned to put at the front of my videogame. Still a bunch more frames to go but hoping to get as much as I can done by the time the Fall show pops up. I… Continue reading Emma’s Research Update #3
For this week’s research, I looked at various forms of documentaries and narrative techniques used in. I found a LinkedIn Learning course called “Introduction to Documentary Video Storytelling” and learned about the history of the genre and the main philosophy behind it. One of the facts that stood out to me was that in most… Continue reading Luke’s Research Update 3
This week I researched the different ways I could create my site. I researched building a website from scratch using a program such as Adobe Dreamweaver Also I researched using WordPress Then I looked into the website builders such as Wix and SquareSpace In the end I came to the conclusion I will need to… Continue reading Pete’s Research Update #3