Task 14: Elements of game design, part five: Planning and Concepting

Okay second blog is about how your brain corporate with what you visualize. Brain is not limited it expands and expands and never gets filled basically it never has enough. This task should be easily answered as it’s been experienced occasionally for the course I am doing.
Okay let’s just say you was handed with a project which was to produce anything that is futuristic and acceptable. Your brain will instantly switch on. This is because of what we all observed through our life time. I’m sure you watched or did everything that is specified below…
TV, games, movies, or even read books and a lot more. There are no limitations on observing ideas. So we should thank the software’s for expanding ideas but mostly we should all thank our eyes and brain.
Lets come back to me…shall we…
What happened to me when I was given a project which was to create a tripod…what happened?
Yes it is true! I didn’t come up with random ideas with flashing lights!! It all comes with what I’ve experienced or visualized. Like for example, I wasn’t like what the heck am i suppose to do or had no ideas what’s so ever... but i was just confused due to all the ideas I had jammed in my head which led me to confusion... it was crazy i tell you.
Well eventually i looked at tripods from movies, books from library, checked on the net etc. because everything comes with research. I then put all my research together and combined the lot which definitely led me to a great concept. I strongly believe planning strategy works like this…you first research and then combine ideas and then you create concepts and then show it to everyone and get feedback and carry on what majority of the people got attracted by and then develop further from there and then model the thing..=D
The best process of planning isn’t what you create at the end but it’s the research behind it. It’s the progression that makes the work quality. For example I could look at a final and say “wow! That’s nice but if they show more of the planning and progression from start to end. I personally will think that it draws more attention and gives the viewer the understanding how much effort he or she put on to the final”. Hope you know what I mean and that’s my way of thinking =)
Anyway....at the bottom I’m going to show you the task that i mentioned earlier on...the example will show the process from start to end. Here goes the example...hope it makes sense...



Firstly as I mentioned earlier I did some research on the net and checked some movies that could be related. Soon after I got some images and Ideas I developed from there. I instantly sketched a few ideas…




I quickly got some designs on to the paper from I chose a few basic shapes and developed from there.
I now had the basic shape and from there I developed further.






My idea grew from these ideas. I then finally chose one which is going to be modeled very soon. It will be uploaded =) anyway that’s my way of planning. Like mike said all your sketches should be the product of evolving, iterative process. See you in my next log =D