Part 1
10 Genres and examples
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Part 2
ETHICS: Impacts of computer games on society, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
With games being more popular and mainstream than ever before the chances of someone getting hooked on one of these games to a dangerous degree is far more likely and even common in places such as South Korea. Examples of this type of addiction can have dire consequences with cases of people suffering fatal health problems like heart attacks or blood clots, other cases have been involve the death of a child due to neglect by their parents.
Other effcts that an excessive amount of playtime can have is to create an environment of social isolation, leading to a negative impact on social skills. in turn this may create a lack of socialization making them feel isolated in public and unable to communicate well in person. in turn this can cause them to isolate themselves further, retreating back to the games they've became hooked on for their faux social interaction. This feeling of only being comfortable within the life they've built in the game can also lead to health problems as the more time spent within the game the less time they have to maintain proper physical activity, showing the links between social isolation and an excessive amount of playing time.
Feeling the need to support this new virtual life they have created for themselves and stay ahead of the competition, they most likely will invest a rather large amount of money into having the best gaming rig that they can. This trend is far more predominant among PC gamers, who will often spend vast amounts of money on but a single component within their PCs. other costs of gaming can be things like a subscription service to play a game such as that employed by the popular MMORPG World Of Warcraft. A more underhand tactic often employed by games developers is to place "free to play" elements within their games, tempting the player to buy additional content and wearing the player down till they eventually give in and purchase the bonus content. in concept this practice is perfectly justifiable within the context of a game that is actually free to play as the developers do need to make money off of their product and the customer has not payed to play, but these elements have recently been making its way more and more into games that retail anywhere up to £50 with "free to play psychology" being a somewhat controversial topic within the games industry at the moment.
Despite all these factors gaming has a remarkable amount of benefits from how it can affect a persons way of thinking to things such as better hand eye co-ordination. Gaming has been proved to improve a persons reaction times, how many objects someone an track at once and strategic thinking thanks to things like RTS games and puzzel games particularly when introduced at a young age. Games have also been proven to help older people, helping them with their memory and focus. Games consoles such as the wii also help players to get a good exorcise and lose weight.
Part 3
Game Concept Sketch
Box character armor and obtainable armor set, Vagantem Lupus armor.
The tattered cloak around the head and shoulders connotes much use and due to its placement suggests its purpose may be to protect against less favorable weather such as rain or to conceal identity. The cloak beneath the armor plating is designed to link into the backstory to the armor set as it is from a land to the north, Yorossa, a land home to many mercenaries and sellswords. The lengthy blue coat under the armor grants some additional protection from the cold (a hint at its hidden higher defense against frost damage), this armor has a striking similarity to that of an infamous mercenary, its silver color has faded and dulled over time time. the placement of smaller pieces of less heavy plate armor means it provides adequate defense whilst leaving the user able to move fairly unrestricted. (a hint that this armor is designed for a lighter mid defense combat rouge type build)
Early game boss (eleventh out of twenty four regular bosses and one secret boss), Consuming Demon
One of the many demons to be released onto the earth when the seven hell gates were opens this is a fast moving demon with razor sharp talons and a barbed tail, it has four arms each with three claws designed for ripping through enemies, each attack does piercing damage instead of magic or crushing damage. one of its attacks is an animation where each of its arms grabs one of the player character's limbs and its torso opens up to reveal rows of fangs and teeth that bite at the player and then spit them out again if they still have health remaining. after the boss dips below 55% health it will start to spit acid from its torso mouth that lands as a blob on the floor and slowly does up to 345 damage whilst beginning to slowly eat away at the weapon degradation bar. this boss is designed to be tough to use a tank class again as it has a 20% chance of ignoring armor and a 40% chance of ignoring parma shields, 30% chance to ignore regular shields and a 15% chance to ignore greatshields. This boss is weak to lightning damage and resistant to magic damage.
End of game boss (twenty fourth out of twenty four regular bosses and one secret boss), Fallen King Raime
A once near god like figure with a seemingly endless lifespan, the old King Raime heralded an age of prosperity across nine kingdoms after coming to power, raising an army and overthrowing the magus tribes controlling the lands. A boss with good defences in all areas with particularly high resistance to all elemental damage types save for dark which he has a slightly lower resistance, thus making that his weakness. he has a higher defence against against crushing physical damage meaning players using weapons like maces or war hammers will find the battle harder than players using weapons with higher piercing damage like swords. when the boss' health goes down to 40% health he will change into his second form with his health going up to 90% again. tendrils will burst from his body and begin to wrap around his body and left arm, the hand he holds his sword in with some covering his sword making it in itself more corrupted and grotesque. his damage output will increase by 35% but he will become significantly slower. his defense against dark slightly but his defense against holy and lightning damage will fall in proportion to this. upon further fighting him further and lowering his health to 30% he will change into his third and final form, where more tendrils burst and change his form into a huge, unevenly proportioned monstrosity inspired by Dark Souls' Manus Father Of The Abyss. His attack patterns change and once again become stronger, but now loses no speed. his defense drops slightly in all areas making it easier to deal him damage. upon defeating him the player will a highly distorted sentence among his death scream where he will thank the player. through out the fight the player will hear him making strange noises and sounds that are sentences that have been reversed and edited to sound more demonic, these will be thngs like warnings to the player where he will tell you to get away quickly, or him asking you to kill him. showing some remnants of the former kings humanity within the twisted husk he now inhabits.
It's visual style is a mixture of photo realistic and exaggerated as it features more realistic looking textures, objects and characters but also incorporates a lot of unrealistic fantasy elements such as the creatures, enemies, environments and many other things scattered throughout the world.
Part 4
game: Dying Knights
genre: rpg fantasy hack 'n slash
Dying Knight is a dark souls inspired game in which your creatable character awakens battered and bruised in a dark forest with no idea where you are, how you got there, or even who you are as you quest onward in search of answers you see that the world you find yourself in is dying and decaying with a once proud civilization all but crumbled before you. as you journey on you find that small pockets of the former kings own sorcerers guild had brought about this apocalypse by dabbling in black magic and eventually opening up 7 gates of hell, releasing countless demons and corrupting the souls of man, giving some horrifying new forms. you must carry yourself forward through these dark times to seal these gates and stop the endless flow of darkness consuming the world, with few sane humans left you must decide whether they will wish to help you or harm you in their own branching character quests. with a wide range of both human and demonic enemies and you being all nearly entirely alone in this bleak once great land the challenges you face will be great your strength will be tested. the main bosses are 3 arch demons summoned when the hell gates opened, a corrupted high priest, the fallen kings guard, the monstrous malevolent corrupted queen, and the final boss being the old king himself, now almost unrecognizable and filled with both demonic and angelic powers as you try to defeat him to seal the final hell gate to save the land as an attempt to reclaim your identity but on your journey in this new nightmarish land you learn that even as you come across those finding you familiar, its not who you were that matters now, but who you will become and the legend you will craft
the gameplay will be heavily centered around the combat, with fast and flowing movements added to its more methodical style of medieval combat, making the player think about how they're going to approach each enemy and what the best equipment for the job is. there will be a wide range of damage types with two purely physical ones (crushing and piercing) worked better against different types of enemy, as well as elemental damage types such as fire, lightning, frost, holy, dark, and poison each infusable on to weapons for bonus damage and effects against enemies. on top of that there will also be a large amount of attribute types used to upgrade your character, with the player being given a starting class with certain attributes that the player can then freely upgrade or ignore entirely allowing them to create a build unique to them. there will also be no restrictions on any class being able to wear certain types of armor or use certain types of equipment leaving more freedom for the player to shape the character how they so choose. another aspect of this will be the customizable character creation where a player will be able to change how they look to suit themselves.
Another key part of the game will be the focus found within its boss fights. these boss fights will be designed to be challenging, making the player focus at all times and have to come up with strategies to defeat each one. the sense of triumph upon vanquishing one of these bosses should feel highly rewarding, making the player feel as if they've over come a great challenge
