Wednesday 13 January 2016

Game Design Story Telling in Games.

Game Design Story Telling in Games.

Task 1.

Six Good Storylines in video games

Call of Duty Ghosts
In Call Of Duty Ghost the Campaign is said to have some "easter eggs" to alter the campaign a bit.
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The Setting:
The Setting of the game is a war-torn U.S.A ten years after an ODIN strike launched via satellite after a hijacking devastated the landscape and invasion from the Federation, a conglomeration of several South American countries. The single player features a dog companion named Riley, fighting in outer space, a story featuring a team "Ghosts" who are remnants of elite U.S Special Operations Forces teams, and various other features.
This game was chosen to be in the top ten because it had interesting game-play and results.

Call of Duty (Zombies)
In Call of Duty Zombies, the story is an easter egg which you would have to discover to find out.
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Call of Duty added some new achievements which was about zombies, They were "secret Achievements" which made players play for a longer period of time. The player has to do a range of different puzzles to get the achievement. The story is about how a man called Richtofen and how he experimented on a subject which led to the zombie out break. He gave his daughter (Samantha) a dog which he then later on experimented on, the dog then bit her and she became the leader of the zombies. Richtofen wants to become the leader of the zombies and when completing one of the easter eggs, he switches sides. On the last map "Origin" theirs a clip that you can watch when you finish the easter egg. Which you find Samantha and her friends playing a board game.

Among The Sleep
In Among The Sleep, you play as a young child which experiences bad things: a monster, darkness etc.
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In the Among the Sleep you start off as a happy child that has just had its birthday, the games atmosphere suddenly changes and makes you think its the father that is the evil monster that the child is seeing. When further on in the game, more and more ideas come to the consumer that it is the farther because the mother was nice and the farther wasn't to be seen except a monster. Being a child will make things look twice the size which makes sense that it could be the farther. At the very end you go down stairs and find out that it was in fact the mother that was the monster because shes an alcoholic.
This campaign makes you think, and can make you relate to the subject in some cases.

Tomb Raider
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Tomb Raider is about how she's a young frightened young woman that turns to a hardened survivor.
At the start the ship crashes and she finds her self in a cave, when she finally escapes she tries to locate the other survivors, she finds more evidence that the island is inhabited. She's armed only with raw instincts and the ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance. When the survivors attempt an escape, the captors turn on them, hunting them down and killing them.

Life is Strange
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Is a choose your own story based game which also has the effect that you can rewind your chosen choice, which can make the player see both sides of an situation that just happened.
Life is Strange is about a young casual girl that isn't popular. At the start of the game she has a dream about a tornado hitting the school, which turns out to be an actual vision of the future. She then finds out later that she can rewind time, by saving her friend. This game allows the player to make their own decisions depending on what they want the game to behave like. This changes the future of the game and behavior between characters.

Command and Conquer red alert 3
Red alert 3 introduces a new faction and places some history in the campaign. 
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In Red alert 3 you have three campaigns, which you play as different factions. These factions have different storylines, however you end up in the same play as before. An example of one of the storylines is the Soviets. The Soviets use a time travel to stop the Allies from winning, however this introduces a new faction, which both soviets and allies have to work together.
This game has been chosen to be second because of the 3 campaigns and the history within the game and a overall good gameplay.

Video Games that dont have storylines:

1. Pacman
2. Agar.io
3. Pong
4. Space invaders
5. Goat Simulator
6. Tetris

These video games dont have storylines as they are made to be fun and to be for causal gamers. These type of games are usually found on the mobile and PC platforms.

The difference between video game storylines and films are that in video games there interactive with the audience and can only progress by the player, while a film can just continue. Can do more types of moves and effects which a film would struggle creating. Also with video games the storyline can change according to how the player wants it to end like.
With games usually they dont require an actor playing a role and are only used for voice acting. Also with video games, hidden storylines can be placed a movie wouldn't be able to do.

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