Sunday, September 13, 2009

Video game design covers

In class we have been given a new assignment to create a video game and make the covers for two different platforms and a CD soundtrack. The first thing i did was some research on games and what is out there. I looked up various different games just to get a feel for the type of games there already actually is. The next step was to open up my visual diary and jot down some ideas. I then went through the ideas i had and chose one to further develop. The idea i chose was wave wars a jet ski based racing game where you race on jet skis around courses while beating the crap out the other racers similar to the old 90's game road rash. Now that i had my idea i started to sketch out potential logos and characters. During a moment of pure genius i had the idea to have ninja's as the riders thus changing the name to ninja wave wars. To get an idea of what sort of font i should use for the title i looked up other jet ski games and based mine on the typical style which was blocked san serif text. I then sat down and sketched out several different styles for the title. Once i had settled on that i began to sketch out the look of the cover( all of the above mentioned sketches will be added once i get the chance to photograph and upload them) . The stage i am up to now is creating the actual covers now that they have been designed. I have taken a Wii game cover from the net and i am currently creating all the official stuff that you would find on a Wii cover. The next step is to do the same for my other chosen platform which is ps2 and then begin to vector my own imagery into them.

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