Peer Capstone Support Group PCSG \o/

         Alrighty then I know the overreaching umbrella would be game design since ive decided to  present my story via game design however i also wouldn't mind some storytellers from other media just to bounce and pitch the story itself off of. other opinions make a story stronger and reveal plot holes :)

          I will most defently be using UDK (Unreal Development kit) and Maya. Also there's a very high chance of me using Photoshop cs6 when i get it cs5 until then and z brush for making normal maps and texture maps and alpha maps for stuff in game.

so for an overveiw of this ugly blocking text

Primary focus
 - Game Design

Programs
-UDK
-Maya
-Photoshop
-Zbrush (possibly)

The Bigger Picture O-O big it is

We were put into pairs the other day to talk about capstones I was in a trio yes we oopsed. I gave a brief overview of my capstone and went on about how I really didn't feel that I knew for sure what medium I wanted to do. Now funny thing when the other person, can;t remember which of the trio it was, was describing what I said I heard bleh. yeah I was kicking myself I completely forgot to discuss the MOST IMPORTANT PART! the story itself. You see now that Ive heard someone else discussing what I was trying to get across I know that I need to work on my presentation of my ideas. Now I have decided what medium I'm going to use so I really need to find a way to better describe the story itself into a smaller more confined nutshell so it can fit in a short pitch rather than taking a 700 page document to describe it. As for the activity itself wow next time I get told to sit next to someone I don't know remind me to write down their names :/.

capstone ideas

Ok so for my capstone I've got the story/mythos I want to use so my three ideas are going to be on how to actually display this to the big ole world.

1. (yeah I like number points) Write a graphic novel of the opening of the story, probably would be too long since it would take an ungodly amount of pages but still it is a thought. graphic novels are awesome no more inspirations needed

2. make the introductions area and allow people to interactively play the beginning of the story, again the beginning of the story is huge so odds of me getting even to the second out of four characters would be an issue and the sheer size of the area Nirana (first of the four characters) traverses at the beginning is ridiculous to do in udk…. was toying with udk and though hmm this would be awesome to use as away to do capstone… udk then crashed and I was like omg but still awesome to do capstone with minus the crashes.

3. Do a historical piece from the mythos preferably a back-story piece on one of the four character. actually now that I think about it that would be perfect use udk to make a campaign styled mission reliving serenity's last operation. Would be able to use the thing as a multiplayer map as well! Inspiration for this would probably be the opening of Skyrim and toying around with udk and going BRILLIANT this will work