Placement

Oh yes, did I forget to mention? I got me a placement, I did.

Its working with a company based near to Southampton called WarriorElite (nach) who are set to launch a new tactical card-based game. Not being very familiar with the genre and the game’s equivalents I can only throw words at you and hope it gives you an idea:

WARHAMMER
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
MAGIC THE GATHERING

Help, much? Anywho me and fellow IMPster Dan Smith (heyoo) are hard at work making a tutorial for the core gameplay. Can’t reveal what that entails but I will keep all you eager eyes updated as and when I feel compelled.

So far we have successfully brainstormed our way to a good idea on how to go about doing this and what might help make this the best darn tutorial the interweb has ever had the pleasure of accomodating amongst all the porn.

Then came the storyboarding, this meant thinking about composition and usability as well as bearing in mind we want this to be as engaging an artefact as possible so it can be useful as a tutorial – using ideas about overlearning/learning by doing/whatever you want to call it.

Because this isn’t “in house” communication and self-disclipine has so far been key and I can see this being the case all the way through to delivery of the finished document.

Woo!

A Video

I figured it would be a good idea to every now and again maybe write about something that I put somewhere else on the web that you may not find. So, here is a video of a mayan sand pyramid constructed to near-perfection by myself, Ashley, and Ollie a few weeks ago.

It took a good two hours or so and got a few compliments. Unfortuantly because it took so long it was about 7 in the evening so all the adoring fans we anticipated swarming the construction site upon completion of the project had gone home because it wasn’t Really Really hot anymore. Still, the falling of the sun helped create better contrasting shadows to accentuate the different levels.

Filmed this on my phone, then imported it into Adobe Premiere (I recently ‘acquired’ the CS3 Master Collection so wanted to see how different Premiere is to Final Cut), rotated it (thus adding the black frame), and added some awesome music by a band called Circle Takes The Square. The song’s called Kill The Switch and that 44 seconds is more or less the only calm bit in the song, awesome.