Drawing together research

Over the past weekend I collated all my research into designated folders and turned all my word documents into PDFs. This didn't take long and made all my folders much tidier and easy to navigate. As well as writing I also put my pictures into PDF as well rather than having them all loose in folders. 

Organizing Research

Over the past two days I have organized all my work in to appropriate folders with specific read-mes that explain why I have chosen or done the work in the related folder. As well as this I have finished all of my game reviews of which there are 7. These research documents consist of a basic and simple review of the game and then what interested me about the game in order to study it for my research. This includes my thoughts on the games itself and why particular parts of it are effective. I had to spend a lot of time playing each game to discern some of the things that I have chosen to address and subsequently this is what a lot of my time went into over the course of the term. 

As well as this I have made some final changes to my game document including new characters and motives for my main character. Even though the setting must be convincing and the environment believable my character must have some depth as well in order to make him be engaging as well as making the player want to complete the story of the game. I have gone through all these aspects of the story in the game document as well as aspects of game mechanics and menu screens etc.

As I think I said before the game document has been compiled from two different resources on creating a a game document one given to me in the first year and the second from the second years course handbook. As the one I was using from the first year could be slightly out of date I used two to compile a more realistic table of contents.    

The Tomb Continued ....

Over the past week I have been really focussing on The Tomb book. As well as maps the book goes into detail about the culture behind the layouts of the tombs and why they are arranged that way. It also goes into detail about burial locations and where sites are most likely to be. This will be good when I decide which bank of the Nile upon which to set my game. Setting is all important, and was the most forward thought in the mind of the man who wanted to build his final resting place.