Animation and audio in the game

The game will be with animations using scripts in the platform of Opensim and audio built with audacity. Every environment will be with an ambient sound (forest, desert, wind, birds)

http://www.opensimulator.org

CHARACTERS AND PLAYERS

The characters of game can be real or fancy.  In mineral hunt they are real and fancy  : explorer, researcher, mineral hero. Every player can choose his character.The story is in first person.

The user log in the central area in the picture and he chooses his character. Every character has a treasure map and a sheet guide with missions.

explorer: must explore, takes pictures on every place, create a map with every informations on mineral resouces. He wears clothes of an explorer.

researcher: must research information on every place and aswers questions on mineral resources. He wears a white coar and glasses.

mineral hero : create information for other players and opens new way to explore every place. He wears a silver suit and black glasses.

STORYTELLING OF GAME

The design of a serious game is based on a story of the game. The story of my game is described by this flow chart:

Features of Games, Simulations & Tutorials

I love a game of fantasy as Lord of rhe ring and URU, because there are strategy elements, for landscapes, rules and challenges and for characters.

A learning game that I love is a smartphone game to improve cognitive skills as lumosity.

The features of my game on mineral universe will have a real landscape but with magic elements, characters will be real or fantasy, with rules and challenges.

My target audience should have fun because there are these elements.

Learning games

If we search learning games in 4 market as  general population, industry, educational, health we can see a design different. Platforms of learning games are pc, tablet, smartphone.

In this post there are very interestig idea:

“Games are vital part of 21st century’s economy. From 2005-2010, revenue of games industry more than doubled. Meaningful Play 2012 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.”

So some types of learning games in different market can be same:

Examples:

Industry

Industry and health

health and educational

epidemic game

general population

I don’t like learning game with repetitive actions as citiville, but games as epidemic  for design and no repetitive actions.

Choosing a Player Platform

For a game there are a lot of platform: Examples are :

• Standalone Computer – Windows PC or Mac
• Browser based Game – IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari
• Tablet base – Android, Windows, iOS
• Smartphone – Android, Windows, iOS

A good game must be in more platform . Good platform is smartphone or pc, because they have more users.

Target Audience considerations

A game can be international or national or local. I good idea is an international game so the target is very large. The language can be in english and in italian at the first. The game must be genre neutral and cultural general because it is international.

Every character can be male, female and neutral genre ( a mineral or a little animal).

For example this is a general target of characters.

Game Genres for Applied Games

Searching digital games design in internet we can see a lot of design, different for genres. Some games are very genela about topic others are digital rapresentetion of odl real game.

Some examples are:

digital risiko

lego digital designer

mario bros

We can classificate digital games in different tipes:

for genre:  for male or female

for children +3-6, +7-10,

teenager games +12, +14

adult games +18

sport games

educational games

free and commercial games

For my aim a good project of game can be an educational game for male and female, free game.

mineral universe game

Idea of my new game : mineral universe. This is the map of game. I am working on :

The Lord of Rings Online

This game is a multiplayer virtual environment and it can be played in free mode. Users have challenges to follows and can interact with other users to create a fellowship. There are characters of trilogy of Lord of Ring and every challenge is about a world of this trilogy for examples the Middle Earth or the Earth of elwes. There are maps and an inventory where every character can collect powers and objects for overcoming every challenge. Beautiful graphics and story. It is an very immersive game. This is the site of the game : http://signup.lotro.com/lotro.php?ftui=LOTROWeathertopHCVideo&cl=75&hf=0&abrs=316_1417369487&interstitial=true

This is a video: