Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Movie

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -Movie

Plot: The foot clan are trying to steal chemicals and are being occasionally stopped by an unknown vigilantly, this turns out to be the turtles. Sagg had a plan to infect New York City so he could save it and become rich. However to create the antidote to the toxin he needs the turtles blood. He uses April to track them and kidnap them so he can drain their blood.

 Beginning: A reporter (April O’Neil) investigating stolen genetic chemicals. At this point the atmosphere is light and comedic. The foot clan is attempting to steal more chemicals and she decides to investigate, there is a dark change in atmosphere at this point. The docks storage containers make for good ambush and increases the viewer’s tension. The Shredder kept in silhouette to keep us in suspense and the atmosphere dark. We find out backstory about foot clan at a benefit though a sob story. The movie changes in pace when hundreds of people start running towards camera as they’re being chased. The reporter runs in to investigate an underground train station however she gets taken hostage. The lights go out so the turtles cannot be seen as they kick ass. The reporter finds and confronts turtles, the turtle’s comedic and relaxed attitude counters the previous atmosphere of the hostage situation. April realises she knows the turtles as she has video footage of them being experimented on. Splinter the turtles master remembers April. She visits the scientists that created the turtles.

Middle: Backstory about japan that gave the scientist his inspiration. Invitation to meeting at night by turtles, she feels threatened by the turtles however splinter reassures her and tells her how they were created. We find out that the scientist has been working for shredder the entire time this is dramatic irony as April doesn’t know. The lair is compromised when April realises her phone is being tracked. This leads to a boss type like fight against shredder, splinter sacrifices himself for the turtles. Three of the turtles are kidnapped and drained for their blood however Raphael hasn’t been captured so he and April go to save them. After busting in he is confronted by shredder and has to fend him off while April releases the turtles. Shredder is already on his way to New York so they have to use a service hatch and travel through the sewer to get back. Shredder has already released the toxin and the turtles have a countdown to stop it.

End: While the turtles take the elevator to confront shredder. April goes to Sagg to take the mutagen as a contingency plan. The turtles try to take shredder on one by one and fail however when they come together they beat him and disable the toxin. April knocks out Sagg to steal the mutagen and uses it to tempt shredder and give the turtles the advantage over him. The turtles then retreat back to the sewers without anyone seeing them.

Gamification

I think that a side scrolling 2.5 dimensional game would fit the film quite well, as it doesn’t take itself too seriously. The graphics would be cell shaded and the game would have cut scenes at the end of each chapter. The game would be 4 player so that each person could play a separate turtle. Each turtle would have a light, medium and heavy attack, each would be able to jump and attack in mid-air. There would be combos for example 2 light attacks and a heavy attack would cause you to start juggling the enemy. The turtles would also have 10 shrunken that they could throw in a straight line. The genre would be an action side-scroller and would consist of 5 chapters each with 10 separate levels. Throughout the game there would be both bosses and mini-bosses with the majority of the enemies you face being different types of foot soldiers. The game would block you from moving on until you have dealt with the current wave of soldiers. There would be intractable items in the world for example exploding barrels that you pick up and throw. Each turtle would have a health bar and would be able to heal with pizza found in destructible items around the level. Each chapter would be set in a different area for example the first would be the streets at night and the subway tunnel where the hostages were kept. The final boss would be shredder, who would have three different stages in the fight, getting harder each time you deplete his life bar.in the first stage he would have a long range charge and a close range slash ability. During his second phase he would then be able to throw knives and recall them like in the movie. In his final form he would take 25% more damage from attacks but also do 25% more damage, along with this he wold also have a pin that dealt damage over time. In between each of his phases there would be a wave of foot soldiers for you to fight.

Unit 78 : Digital Graphics Computer Game Graphics P1 - Understand Theory Applications of Digital Graphics

Unit 78 : Digital Graphics

Computer Game Graphics

P1 - Understand Theory Applications of Digital Graphics

Pixel Art

Pixel art uses raster graphics software, this is where the image is edited at a pixel level. This art style was often used in older games because the technology struggled to run anything else. Pixel art is often used to create 2D sprites, a sprite is a bitmap graphic that is designed to be part of a larger image, sprites can be either a static image or an animated graphic. Sprites can be characters, objects or even icons that are part of the UI. Sprites aren't as common in modern video games but they are still used for other purposes, like to add buttons or symbols to software programs.

Concept Art

Figure 1

The concept art is often used as a starting point for a game, whilst doing this you can plan different ideas for characters, areas and objects.
For example Figure 1 is concept art from the fantasy game World of Warcraft, it tells us that a new army is involved in the newest expansion. You can immediately tell that the characters depicted in the art evil due to the colour palette chosen, you can see the darkness of the image and particularly in the Warcraft universe the colour green is associated with the evil fell energy that corrupted the orcs. The purpose of concept art isn't only to plan out ideas but to make us feel what the designers are trying to convey.

Figrue 2

Texture Art & Background GraphicsTexture art is the way we convey how a surface would feel in a game. It takes both an element from 2D and 3D designed, this along with other element of game design can serve to fully immerse you in the game that you are playing. You can see the use of 3D art in the 2D image in Figure 2.
A lot of texture art is used for the background graphics in games and occasionally the art isn't drawn but pictures are taken and implemented into the game. The background is what the sprite is placed into, originally just a bitmap image background graphics now include various graphical overlays. Both the way the surface quality appears and how well the background images fit the styles play a major role in immersing the player in the game. See video at end of page.

 Print Media

This is responsible for attracting the players to the game. It includes box art, bill boards and posters. The box art has to relate to the game, it must be eye catching however the box art is never in game footage, it is usually some concept art. This is to make the game look better when compered to the others and make people want to buy it. If a game hasn't been developed particularly well then focus can be placed on the print media to hype the game and sell copies.  

Raster Image

When enlarged, individual pixels appear as little squares. In computer graphics, a raster graphics image is a dot, representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of colour, viewable via a monitor or paper. Raster images are stored in image files with varying formats.

Vector Image

Vector graphics are the use of polygons to represent images on computer graphics. Vector graphics are based on vectors, which lead through locations called control points or nodes. For example ( i , j )

A pixel isn't a little square it is one point something to do with I and J vectors

Story Telling in Games

Story Telling in Games

The Borderlands Series

Throughout the 3 Borderlands games there is a linear story with branching side quests. It starts off with 4 vault hunters searching for a vault, a epic storage place full of rare loot, however to do this they must first find the 3 pieces of the vault key when they do they then head to the vault only to find no loot but the destroyer of worlds. Then in the second instalment of the series a new set of 4 vault hunters have to stop handsome Jack from awakening and controlling the vault of the warrior, to do this they must work with the original 4 to fight there way though Jack's robot army to stop him at the vault. The next game is titled the Pre-Sequel because the events come before the second game and tell the story of how handsome Jack became the insane villain you have to defeat in Borderlands 2. All three Borderlands games have a cell shaded art style. You can tell from the bold outlines and high contrast colours.

Batman Arkham City  This Batman game is the second instalment in the franchise and focuses around a prison district which is walled off where the villains are allowed to roam free. However when the evil Doctor Strange kidnaps and discovers Batman's secret identity he must fight to uncover the sinister plot Dr Strange has of destroying the city and everyone in it, whilst also finding a cure for the Joker's blood that he has been injected with. The Batman series of games are all highly exaggerated. Exaggerated is when things are are of proportion when compared to the real world, for example in the picture above the moon's size is highly exaggerated. 

Heroes of the Storm

Heroes doesn't actually have a prominent story in the game, however it tells a story though the means of character introduction. Whenever a new character or map enters the nexus Blizzard releases a trailer for them, within the trailers is a subtle story line. In the beginning heroes where simply fighting good versus evil however the heroes now rally behind Medivh and Ilarian to fight Gul'dan and Beleth to stop them harnessing the true power of the nexus. The games graphics are exaggerated, we can tell this because of the heroes that you can play. They can be anything from fish creatures to the literal devil.

Please Don't Touch Anything At the beginning of this game you find yourself in front of a panel with a big red button in the middle, your coworker asks you to watch the machine whilst he goes to the restroom and to not touch anything, of course most of us will immediately start pressing buttons. There are a total of 25 different endings each harder to discover then the last and each time a different event will occur on screen. In the end it turns out that it's just the coffee machine and the TV occasionally plays adverts. The games uses cell shaded graphics as it matches the cartoon style of the story and general game play. 

The Binding of IsaacThe main game play in the Binding of Isaac gets you shooting your tears at a range of different enemies in each room. At the end of each floor there is a boss and after four floors you have to fight Mom. The story is told with a cut scene at the beginning and end of the game, in which God tell Isaac's mother to kill him, Isaac hides in his room and escapes through a trap door which leads into the game. The story is inspired by the bible story 'The Binding of Isaac'.The artistic style used for the games is cell shaded, it suits a rouge-like dungeon game and the comedic items you can acquire.

Pokemon

In each of the main Pokemon games so far the main story has you getting your first Pokemon in your hometown then travelling throughout the various regions to battle the eight gyms and eventually taking on the elite four, then becoming the champion. Usually in the games there is some sort of evil organisation that want to harness the power of the region's legendary Pokemon and it comes down to you to stop them. The games don't stop there though because finishing the game opens up new areas or the national dex which allows to find Pokemon that you couldn't before. The Pokemon games, especially the new ones, are cell shaded. This really improved in X and Y in which the transition was made from pixel the cell shaded art.

Warcraft: Orcs and HumansIn the beginning there where the titans who where looking to create planets, however the most relevant one to us is Azeroth, they also created protectors, one of these being Sargeras who quickly grew to resent the titans he wanted to fight back against them and so created the burning legion. The legions plan was to surge all life from Azeroth, to do this Sargeras set his right hand Kil'Jaeden to corrupt the orc on the world of Draenor and turn them into the blood thirsty army known as the Horde by making them drink the blood of a Pit Lord. Sargeras possessed a sorcerer know as Medivh and made him contact the orc Warlock Gul'dan on Draenor. The Horde then invaded Azeroth through the dark portal, a dimensional gateway created by Medivh and Gul'dan and lead by the Warchief Blackhand clashed with the humans. Khadgar, the apprentice to Medivh discovered the demon possessing him and managed to kill him, which in turn banished Sargeras to the twisting nether. In the end the Horde shattered Stormwinds defences.

Super Mario Bros

When the mushroom kingdom is attacked and Princess Peach is kidnapped by Bowser.Jr, Mario chases after him but he escapes into a castle in which Mario must face of against Bowser once defeating him and dropping him into the lava he becomes a bony version of himself whom Mario must defeat again. After defeating both Bowser and his son for a third time Mario will finally reach the Princess and take her back to her castle.

Westerado: Double Barrelled

At the beginning of this pixel art shooter you find yourself on your families farm however that your house is raided bandits and your mother and sister are murdered, the rest of the game see you finding clues about the man who killed them and hunting them down, it can turn out to be any NPC in the games.

Diablo 2

The Dark Wanderer and Baal join with Mephisto, open a portal to Hell, and the Dark Wanderer sheds his human form and becomes the demon Diablo. ... The story continues in the expansion Diablo II: Lord of Destruction where Baal attempts to corrupt the mythical Worldstone on Mount Arreat.