Month: January 2018

1 to 1 Tutorial 16/01/18

Tutorials

River Project:

  • moving away from vacuum forming as I feel I can get better casts in other materials due to the restrictions of vacuum forming, now moving towards metal, resin, plaster and ceramics
  • “The Detectorists” TV show
  • Mudlarking- how it has transitioned from a way for the very lowest of society to scavenge for survival, to a middle class pastime involving expensive permits and equipment
  • “Secret Lives of Colour” by Kassia ST Clair – reserve in library and read it
  • “Re-imagining Scott: Objects and Journeys” by Paul Coldwell – borrow from library and read
  • 3D scanning and printing- could work with some of my found objects
  • “Shop of Possibilities”

Perfect Victim:

  • focus on narrative, use simple, still illustrations and focus on the branches of the story and how player decisions affect the narrative
  • do interviews with woc, trans women, non binary people (who previously identified as femme/women)
  • use interviews as a base to write scenes in the game
  • Put call out for illustrator and games designer when ready

Video Game Inspo Pinterest Page and Gender Survey

Research for Perfect Victim, Work in Progress

Pinterest link

Gender Presentation and Discrimination Survey 

The top linked page is for visual references for the Perfect Victim video game project- I have played two games so far (Depression Quest and Dream Daddy) and taken screenshots and made accompanying notes on this Pinterest page, each with their own sub-section. I have also pinned visual references for the character creation I hope to include in my game, and other visual references from other games and artists for scenery/backgrounds/ect. This is so that once I find an illustrator and games designer/programmer to collaborate with they can see my inspiration and visual references collected in one place, as well as something for myself to refer back to.

The second link is for a survey I created as part of my research for this game, looking into how gender presentation can lead to discrimination (or not). I hope to see if people feel that how they present regarding gender (i.e. if they look more masculine or feminine) affects how they are treated by others. This is so that I can incorporate first hand experiences into my video game, to make it more realistic. I also need to write up a series of questions to ask women of colour, trans women, and people of other genders who present as more feminine(or who used to), in one to one interviews. I already have a few people who have volunteered to be interviewed, so I’m hoping these interviews will give me vital primary data and experiences to work into the game. I will ask the Student Union if they can do a mass email to UAL students and share my call for interviewees on social media so that I can reach a wider audience than just my current social circles.

TO DO:

  • Play the other games as research (screenshot and make notes during this)
  • Write up a series of questions for the one to one interviews
  • Get a call put out for interviewees so that I can start interviewing people asap
  • review the responses to my survey
  • Continue character write ups
  • Draft key scenes for the game
  • Find collaborators