Stories: Personal Project
Seven Steps – Ben Welton
A Winter of Itself Step 1: Weakness and Need The Weakness and need are revolved around Charlie and Jack Bombay. They are the pair of brothers who moved away from each other after college. One to pursue a ski dream in northern New England, and one to pursue a financial goal in commercial street in… Read more »
McKeon Seven Steps
1) Weakness: Calvin does not know what his happening to him or why its happening to him. Need: Calvin needs answers to whats happening to him and what happens when the updates reaches 100% 2 )Desire: He wants it all to go away, to live his life like everyone else. For the update to go… Read more »
Aidan Bauer Draft 2
This is my project at the 75% stage. The game is playable up through part 3. My next task is to make it completely playable up through part 4, the final part of the game. For that, I still need to record the narrator lines for it as well as finalize the level design for… Read more »
Zach Marvin – 7 Key Steps
Weakness and Need: Our main character, Al Herman is far too innocent and couldn’t fathom any sort of betrayal, especially from his own crew. Desire: His biggest desire is making a good name for himself back at home and impressing his friends and relatives. Though they already look up to him, this is his first real… Read more »
7 Steps_KevinBoucher
Where it all begins, where Nick was injected with something, or stabbed with something by homeless person. He was a curious boy and he was surprised when walking with his friends to get called into an alley. Not a very bright thing to do but he wanted to see what was going on and that… Read more »
Ben Woodbrey – 7 key steps
1. Weakness + Need Arnold is weak. He goes to his ex-hit man retired brother who at first is very hesitant to help him out. After a bit of begging and pleading, Richard decides to look into it and see how deep his brother actually was. 2. Desire Once Richard got back into the swing… Read more »
Kyle Fowlie – 7 Key Steps Excercise
Seven Key Steps Excercise 1.) Weakness, Need and Desire Weakness Lucas cannot head the advice of those he does not respect. Need Lucas needs to survive in the world by himself and discover how fortunate his life actually was. He also needs to learn honor and value in a corrupted world. Desire Lucas wants to… Read more »
Shannon Meserve – Draft 1
I have been debating on what to do with my music video idea for a couple weeks now. I plan on filming this weekend and having the rough cut complete by Tuesday. My original plot line was going to tell the story of a female couple going through the motions and effects of drug use…. Read more »
Ben Woodbrey 50% project check in
I have the story laid out inside the game and have connected some NPC’s to their talking content. Each NPC takes about an hour to hand code and add into the game. This includes changing their expressions, the way they talk, the way they move and where they are inside the game. I have recorded… Read more »
First Attempt
Here is from when I had my first attempt done but it wouldn’t load my images onto the site. I had gotten the API set up and gotten things to connect properly to each other which was half the battle. After I got the connection to eclipse set up with the actual client, I was… Read more »
Adobe Slate
I found a cool program to make short stories in. I think it is only an ipad app but its a good resource. https://standout.adobe.com/slate/
Kyle Fowlie Draft 1 (50%)
Milk Run Thesis On a dystopian, futuristic Earth a young boy is set on a seemingly simple task by his aging grandmother but is quickly forced to adapt or perish in a world he thought he knew. Setting Young Lucas and his grandmother are huddled in the 3rd story of a large apartment building, trying… Read more »
Final Story
Final Personal Story due May 4th. Post to class website with “Final Story” category. This is the final revision/version of your personal story project, incorporating feedback from classmates and professor.
Seven Step Exercise
A story has a minimum of seven steps in its growth from beginning to end: Weakness and need Desire Opponent Plan Battle Self-revelation New equilibrium The seven steps are not arbitrarily imposed from without, the way a mechanical story structure such as three-act structure is. They exist in the story. These seven steps are the… Read more »
Aidan Bauer Draft 1
This is my final project at the halfway stage. The game is mechanically complete up through part 2. The major development focus for the next two check-ins will be getting the game to a completely working state and generating visual and audio assets to replace the placeholder assets. I have posted the Unity project files… Read more »
Marvin 50% Project
Below are some excerpts along with the layout so far. Along with finishing the main story line, I also hope to be able to add sketches and audio before completion. Journal Entry 1.1 – EZQ-245 Mission Log – Al Herman, January 19,3045: This is my first entry into what I’m sure will be a… Read more »
First Attempt McKeon
Prompt: One day everyone notices the words “Human Update 1.1 progress 1%” in the corner of their eye. Chapter 1.1 January 1, 2022 New years Eve was a Friday this year but I could use the money so I worked anyways. I clocked out of the office around 6:00 and went home to get ready…. Read more »
Aidan Bauer First Attempt
I’ve decided to make my game in Unity because it’s an environment that I’m fairly familiar with and so far things are going well. The screenshots can’t really show it all that well but there is progress being made. The code for the game is around 80-90% of the way there and I have the… Read more »
CaitlinTrafton Proposal
My first story will be Scallop Season, Truck Running.
Story Proposal- Joe McDonald
I’ve really been in a music mode lately as I’ve been prepping to make a music video. I want to do a story involving a traveling musician. He would be a singer of a metal band. The other members of the band are people he grew up with in particular the drummer and him are… Read more »
CaitlinTrafton FirstAttempt
Kyle Fowlie First Attempt
A Comfy Cave I have thought a bit about the implementation of the story idea and have decided on using GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) to develop a scroll-driven animation. Essentially, animations will play as the user scrolls down the page. I have some examples here, and here. The webpage will start at the beginning of the story,… Read more »
Story Proposal- Marvin
Describe your main story line: In the year 3045, a spaceship carrying an elite team of scientists is the first thing known to have touched down on EZQ-245. Their goal is to study the new planet and begin to try and colonize. Al Herman, an elite micro-biologist is heading up the team and plans to start construction… Read more »
Kyle Fowlie Proposal
My Project (A Comfy Cave?) Main Story Line A Comfy Cave (the working title) will detail the short story of Tagna (“tahg-nya”), a Neanderthal living in a cave at the base of the Andes mountain range approximately 150,000 years ago. He (she?) and his clan live a relatively comfortable life, primarily because of the shelter… Read more »
ZachMarvin MyProject
Premise: In the year 3045, a spaceship carrying an elite team of scientists is the first thing known to have touched down on EZQ-245. Their goal is to study the new planet and begin to try and colonize. Wish List: Premise List: Possibilities: Are there any living beings on this unexplored planet? How to best use… Read more »
Story Proposal- Woodbrey
Arnold owes the mob a lot of money. Richard is his retired hitman brother. Both Richard and Arnold have ex ties with the mob. Arnold owes one of the families a LOT of money. Arnold cannot pay and will probably die. Richard unfortunately feel obligated as his brother to get him out of the… Read more »
Proposal_AidanBauer
My proposal for my final project is a video game. I plan on making it in Unity, and it will be a top-down isometric action game about a woman with magical powers and her adventure to escape captivity. The woman in question is name Subject XII. Before the events of the game, she had been held at… Read more »
Premise_AidanBauer
Premise: With the help of a stranger, woman with magical powers fights her was out of a laboratory. Design Principle: Tell the story from the POV of the main character but a supporting character, and at force the main character and narrator to examine themselves. Basic Action: Woman’s desire to escape. Story Problems and Challenges:… Read more »
Story Proposal – Shannon Meserve
Story proposal A college athlete and her girlfriend have a loving relationship. The athlete is a soccer player and spends most of her time practicing the game while her girlfriend is slowly getting more and more addicted to hard drugs. No matter how much her girlfriend attempts to save her from abusing drugs, she ends… Read more »