Lea Maalouf Grade 9 ATt IGCSE Weeks 4-5 Design Brief: Game Cover
The graphic design project for weeks four to five is to design a cover for aWii game. The title of the game is Fasf Track.lt is about travelling the world and learning and experiencing new cultures. It is an educational, adventure game that broadens people's perceptions of the world. The target customers are teenagers fages 10-16J who haven't travelled a lot and want to learn more about the world and its many cultures. The front cover should capture the essence of the game ftravel/fast-paced/adventure). The title should look like it is in motion (to portray that the game is fastJ. The back cover should show pictures of some of the places you will get to travel to with your virtual character. There is no specific character, people may create their own characters, choose their clothing, and accessories as they wish. Things that should be considered or mentioned on the back cover are that game is fast-paced. The game is about travelling the world. Characters will have the to complete tasks ffor example, cooking a traditional meal,learning a few words in a certain language, performing a traditional dance etc.) and unlock clues in order to travel to the next country. The character will receive money for the tasks they complete and depending on how hard the tasks are and how well they complete them. The main goal of the game is to budget your money and time wisely in order to travel around the world as fast as possible. With more money, you can choose faster transportation [e.g. planes, as opposed to trainsJ, and which foods your character eats (e.g. expensive, healthy foods, as opposed to cheap foods on the streetJ. Feed your character nutritious meals to avoid getting sick. High scores of other gamers will be displayed at the end of the game so you can compare how fast you travelled the world against other gamers.
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Design Process Idea: Fast Track
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-l liked this one the best because the sky fit perfectly with the pictures. The sun sheds a circle of light behind the man highlighting him. Also, since the picture of the skydiver is a bit darh it makes sense that the sun was behind him. Since the light was behind him rather than in front of him, you see his silhouette and only a little bit of details. -now, I did the text on the front cover I used font: 'marker felt', because it seemed adventurous, flowing, and not uptight (like Times New Roman). It looked like it would fit for a jungle setting too, and the shapes of the letters reminded me of bamboo sticks. - I wanted to make Fast Track look like it was in motion fto portray the word 'fast'), so I tried doing Filter>Blur>Motion Blur, but that didn't look like the words were in
motion, it just made them look blurry. Instead, I experimented more and tried Filter>Stylize>Wind. This worked much better; because there were streaks behind the letters to show which direction they are moving in. -the next thing I wanted to do with the text was add shadows behind the letters to same covers do thisJ T**g,Ll,:J..Tg-ll.,p^"gt,gy"!-To.:_!siycegglt","""*L.
-l tried various techniques to make the letters pop out more. For example, I checked drop shadow, inner shadow, outer glow, and inner glow. Then I saw that I could make the text have texture, to I chose a texture for my title.
-l still wasn't satisfied with the background, so I did more research. I found out that it is common for games to have a big picture on top and smaller images on the bottom of the frame, so I did this as well. Also, I changed the opacity of the jungle image from 50% to 100% so that the image would show. -l then wrote the description and chose the color white for the font. I thought that white would work best because it would lighten up the picture. It would also blend in better with the Wii cover template than blach or any other color.
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