JE10 - Task 1

Research for a nature exploration game:

Primary Research:

I have made a survey for my primary research and i have asked people different questions about what they would think a nature exploration game would be like in their eyes and the results have come back different, which is good because now i know people expect different things from a nature exploration game and i can use this information to create many different things for this type of game, such as, some people think its realistic so there will be realistic things in the game like, trees, bushes, rock, etc, for the people who think this is not realistic there will be enemies, such as dinosaurs.  

Secondary Research:

I have researched different video games which are involved with the nature exploration type genre and i have been asked to discuss different assets of that type, the assets are quite simple for a ordinary nature exploration game because all it is really is going in to different forest and finding things like huts and houses, other than that it will just be trees, logs,bushes and long tall grass, if i was to create different assets for a nature exploration game i would probably create different trees and tree stumps. A lot of nature exploration games put abandoned buildings into there games so that the players do not get bored of walking round a plain old forest, so putting buildings into a game just makes it a lot more exciting. Most horror games are in forests because when you are in a forest you have no idea which way to go, such as the game called slender is a horror game where you are being followed by a very pale man in a black suit around a forest, but in that game there is some very interesting assets. There is also a game that is a really good definition of a nature exploration game and it is called Ark Survival Evolved, in that game you go around surviving of everything that you can find, such as berries so you don`t starve, you cut trees down to get wood so you can make things like arrows, sticks to make cap fires so you don`t get cold, so everything in the game is nature, you are using everything nature gives you and the game is just about exploring so this is the perfect example of a nature exploration game.

Concept art for assets

The images above show the different tree ideas that I have drawn, to help me decide which tree to make for my scene.

The images above are concept art of rocks that I have been drawing to give me a idea of what to make for my scene.