my production experiment powerpoint for my video game project york college

1. Experiments
William Young

2. Process
• For my first experiment in my
video game project, I decided
to create a simple animation of
a door opening. I did this in
Adobe Photoshop, via a
combination of the timeline
creator in the program and the
use of multiple layers. In each
frame of the pixel animation, I
switched the focus of the
frame onto each of the
individual layers that I had
created, which depicted the
door progressing from being
completely closed to being
completely opened.

3. Reflection
• Something that I've learned from this experiment and will use in my final
video game animation is animating something gradually going from one
state to another (such as a door going from completely closed to
completely opened) rather than just showing the door entirely closed one
frame to completely open in another frame.

4. Process
• What I did here was create a
simple and primitive design
for a large dragon to be the
final boss of my 'game'. One
of the dragon's attacks is
opening its mouth and firing
a large blast of fire at the
protagonist (which either
deals a lot of damage) or can
be absorbed into the hero's
sword.

5. Reflection
• One thing that I've learned from this experiment is how to have something (like a
huge beam of fire) come out of the mouth of something else (like a giant dragon)
and firing towards the ground (where the hero of the game is stood). I will do this
along with what I learned when animating the door opening earlier, and the
product I'll probably come out with is something like the fire-laser gradually
leaving the dragon's mouth and flying towards the hero of the game, who wields
a sword.