An Exploration Of Storytelling

This semester we're looking to have a bit of fun with our project as this semester we get to pitch our own idea's for what we want to do for the semester. The group met up and discussed a number of ideas for the project. We looked at doing a film or web series, as well as creating a physical art piece, but eventually we settled on the idea that we all wanted to make a game.

Now immediately ideas started flying around about what we could potentially do with our project but we still had to pitch everything to the tutors, so I set about writing out our pitch form. Pitching a project in itself isnt actually as easy as it sounds, It obviously wasn't as simple as "For our project we want to make a game, this is a basic storyline, these are the roles we'll take and then bam!"  The whole thing involved constantly talking to a number of tutors to find out what was needed in the pitch form and what they thought could improve the pitch and make the project fit more easily within the course. Well after everything was done, we then had to pitch our idea to the class, this was supposedly to find people that wanted to  join in the project. I felt a bit bad when doing this as the project had been planned using the same group from last semester and a number of people were really keen on joining in the project. For a pitch it seemed more like just explaining what we were going to do rather than opening it up to other people to come and join us, which sort of defeated the purpose of the pitch for me really.

We got everything approved and Nick Hudgson has joined the team as our lead 3D modeller and animator. Lucy will be in charge of storyline and script writing, Edrian will be in charge of concept art and Art Style for the game and me and Tim will be in charge of game mechanics as to making the game environments and coding for the game etc.

Usually I tend to take a leadership role with the projects I work on, but this time I specifically took a step back from the leadership role in this one as I have made plans to go and visit my girlfriend in China for 3 weeks in the middle of the semester. I have made a point of mentioning this to the group and they are all happy for me to do this.