from the grave
DESCRIPTION
I laid this out for my entrepreneurial class, created a game company logo, and worked with my team to create content for a fictitious video game. The game was a pitch to mock student investors to get money for the project. We received the most money out of all the other groups for our idea and design.TRANSCRIPT
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“From the Grave”“A hack and slash, 3rd Person (or zombie) videogame adventure
By: Michael Boures, Bryan Calabro, Dominic Manzione, & Thomas O'Day
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A videogame for these select consoles:
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Produced By:
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Produced By:
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Produced By:
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• 2012 Zombie Apocalypse • Open World
- (roam, scavenge, hunt, survive and kill)• Befriend other humans• Or defriend other humans and eat them
alive turning them zombies. • Find a cure! If there is one…
Game Overview
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• 100’s of Hours of Gameplay• Weekly Updates
– Different expansions to keep the zombies coming
– Word of the day feature with hints instead of vocabulary words
• Live feature – Work with friends, eat enemies– Destroy enemies or become enemies
Game Overview (cont.)
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In-Game Supplies
• Want some food?– Animals to hunt, supermarkets to explore
• Need some medicine?– Break into a hospital, home, EMS truck
• You’re going to want weapons… – Found a pipe? Bash some skulls in– Found a hunting store? Open season!
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Software used
• Autodesk Maya (on PC because it’s cheaper)• 3D computer graphics software .• Used to create interactive 3D applications,
including video games, animated film, TV series, or visual effects
• Users define a virtual workspace (scene) to implement and edit media of a particular project. Scenes can be saved in a variety of formats
• Maya exposes a node graph architecture
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Node Graph Architecture
• Modular Node Components
• Graph
• 2-Dimensional Visualization
• Popular in the film and computer games industry
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Software used (cont.)
• Adobe After Effects CS6
• Fire
• Pre-set animations
• <2 second animations for the coder
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Benefits of using Maya & After Effects
• Fluid Effects - effective for smoke, fire, clouds and explosions
• Classic Cloth - clothing and fabrics moving realistically over an animated character.
• Fur Animal- For fur-like objects, such as grass, hair etc.
• Camera Sequencer- used to layout multiple camera shots and manage them in one animation sequence.
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Maya’s been used in…
• Movies- Shrek (Dream Works), Kung Fu panda, monsters vs. Aliens (Dream Works/Paramount) Avatar
• Games- Medal of Honor, Far Cry 2, Guitar Hero series, Forza Motorsport (Microsoft), Rock Band and many more.
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Examples of Maya Work
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Examples of Maya Work
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Examples of Maya Work
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Maya Plugins
• Extensions for the 3d animation software Maya.
• There are plugins for many different areas such as modeling, animation and rendering.
• Some of them also interact with external applications (for instance renderers, game engines or other software packages).
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Plugins We Used
• Render Man for Maya• Photo-realistic rendered by Pixar• It is used to render all of their in-house 3D
animated movie productions• Produces life like animations• Makes games more realistic
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More Plugins We Used
• Ams-3D Automated motion systems for Maya• Character Animation• Toolset for creating, editing, storing, reusing,
scaling, bending and timing information• Creates a smooth transition with your
character when gaming
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Plugin Developed ($$$)
• Blood splash plug-in – Called “red-ink”
• A splash simulation dynamic
• Takes and multiplies existing nodes to eliminate the duplication of liquid polygons
• Plan on selling it for money
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What we offer…
• A new video game ready for development
• A plug-in software to sell alongside the videogame in development
• A unique niche market for hack and slash zombie games crossing all consoles