The document summarizes an experiment Jay Birkin conducted to create a city landscape background image in Photoshop for a 2D side-scrolling game. However, the simple city image did not fit well in the game. For the final product, Jay thinks the view will look down from above the city as characters navigate through it. The image was drawn by hand using basic Photoshop tools like the pencil, move, and color selection tools. While more detail could have been added, Jay learned they want to include more pixel artwork, especially for characters, and use a dark color scheme in the final products.

1. Experiments
Jay Birkin

2. process
The task I did while experimenting was create a city
landscape which I will now not use in the game
because it is too simple and does not fit anywhere in
the game it looks too out of place. I created this on
Photoshop but when it comes down to the final
product I think I will have it looking down from up
above the city and the characters have to navigate
there way through the city so it will be a 2D game
with birds eye view.
This was a non existent image that I created from
scratch by myself I just drew it free hand creating all
the buildings as a background image
If I had more time with this
experiment then I would have
added windows on all the
buildings and gave them
colour, most likely they would
have been dark.
The move tool is used
is used to move around
layers, I used this tool
to line up all of my
buildings together. The
pencil tool is used to
draw in pixels I drew
mine free hand in size 1
pixels. Finally the
colour tool, I used the
colour black because it
is an outline and black
stands out.
This option is
where I could
change the size of
pixels I was
drawing in however
I did not use this in
the making of my
experiment but I
might in my final
one.
The rubber tool would
be used if I made a
mistake and drew out
of line whilst free
handing but I left
them and it made
some of the building
walls thicker making
them stand out more.

3. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
• I will not include a city side view as a background I may do a view from above though almost
like a map which I could then include as an in game map or I could even use it as a
background for the poster or game case I intend to create.. Drawing this has made me realise
I want to do a lot of pixel drawing work in this project especially with the making of my
characters I will draw them all in pixels. The city is dark and this is the colour scheme that I
want to use in the production of my final products.