killer Klowns from outer space

Ice-cream men try to sell ice cream to couples who are at a drive-in but get boo'd away.

A comet flies across all of them and then over a farmers house who gets excited

The farmer goes searching in the darkness and finds a circus in the forest, an arm reaches out the side and takes his dog from behind his back.

Two teenagers get arrested for being "drunk and disorderly" and the police man becomes very violent towards them

A couple from the drive-in goes searching and finds the circus

The couple are sucked into an elevator and come across a giant room with a large electrical device in it

The next room they go to they see lots of pods hanging down and they open one to see a face inside

A clown walks in and they accidentally drop something so the clown chases them, they get into the car and more clowns come after them

The couple go to the police station and start to tell their story but sound ridiculous to them.

The clowns go around the town and start capturing people in these cocoon sort of things

One of the policemen takes the couple to where they saw the circus but wouldn't let the woman go

A clown rides to a biker bar and they start to destroy the clowns bike, the clown then punches the mans head off

The policeman and the man(mike) go to the drive-in and find a car filled with the cotton candy stuff used to cocoon people and someones glasses

The police station is getting distress calls from everyone in town but refuses to believe them

The woman at home starts to undress for her shower, the popcorn that was shot at them when they were originally chased falls from her clothes and starts to move

A clown puts on a shadow puppet show at the bus stop and the shadow eats them when the policeman see them this time

One of the clowns shows up at the police station and starts messing the policeman who doesn't want to help people about. the clown murders everyone in the station and the good policeman comes and ends up seeing all of it

The bad policeman is used as a puppet to tell Dave what the clowns want to do, which is to kill everyone

A group of clowns show up at the female antagonists house (debbie) and capture her in a giant bubble

The group chase the clowns to an amusement park where they kill a man with acid pies

They enter the circus and come to a door, whilst turned around the two ice cream men fall into a ball pit and disappear from the others

Mike and Dave go through the same door as earlier to the room full of the cocooned people but there's more now, they find Debbie and break her out of the balloon.

They were found by the clowns and chased until they end up on a giant podium, surrounded by clowns.

The ice cream men then crash through the wall and start speaking through their megaphone and the clowns think that they are some sort of leader and move aside for Mike, Dave and Debbie to get past.

The group get to the truck but it wont start, then a giant monster clown is lowered from the ceiling and Dave distracts the monster until they manage to escape.

Whilst the group are outside Dave is being chased by the monster and runs out of ammo for his pistol, the monster grabs him and lifts him up. Dave then take his badge and stabs the clown's nose

The monster then drops Dave and explodes, this blows the circus spaceship up as its trying to take off.

Everyone outside see's this happen and assume that Dave is dead

A clown car drops from the sky, almost completely destroyed from the explosion, everyone is prepared for a clown to emerge but it ends up being Dave.

My top 10 games

Gta v- this game starts off showing the old crimes of Michael Townley and Trevor Phillips. this would end the crime spree as far as they knew and would end they're friendship with the "death" of Michael. the two would reunite when Trevor hears of the recent robbery which Michael was apart of. GTA V is very photo-realistic whether it be the characters, vehicles, animals or just the fantastic looking environment. 

Overwatch- the story to this game is told through written backstories and "hero shorts" which are
short clips showing what some of the heroes are like. Overwatch is a mixture of a lot of different artistic styles but mainly takes influences from anime and cell-shaded.

Just cause 3- a small set of islands is under the control of a vicious dictator and Rico Rodriguez is sent to liberate the island. This game would be photo-realistic with the characters and animals but the explosions and fighting in the game are extremely exaggerated 

modern warfare- The story takes place in the year 2011, where a radical leader has executed the president of an unnamed country in the middle East and an ultra-nationalist movement starts a civil war in Russia. The conflicts are seen from the perspective of a U.S force reconnaissance marine and a British SAS commando, and are set in various locales, such as the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine. The multiplayer portion of the game features various game modes and contains a levelling system that allows the player to unlock additional weapons, weapon attachments and camouflage schemes as they advance.

modern warfare 2- this is a photo-realistic game, they most likely modelled the characters around real soldiers and tried to make the battles feel as realistic as possible

modern warfare 3

god of war (2016)

Games without a story

Tetris

Pong

Fifa

Pacman

games consoles

My gaming machines- then and now

Playstation 1 specs-

. Released on the 3rd december 1994 in japan and proceeded to be released in 1995 for north America, Europe and Australia.

. units sold- 102.49 million

. Media- CD-ROM

. CPU- MIPS R3000, 33.8688 MHz

. storage- memory card

. input- Playstation controller, dual analog controller, DualShock

. best-selling game- Gran Turismo with 10.85 million units shipped

. successor- Playstation 2

Playstation 4 specs-

. Released on november 15/29 in 2013 for North America and Europe and it came out on 22nd February 2014 in Japan

. units sold- 40 million units

. media- BlueRay and DVD

. CPU- semi-custom 8-core AMD x86- 64jaguar 1.6 GHz CPU

. memory- 8gb GDDR5

.storage- 1TB hard drive

. display- HDMI

. graphics- semi-custom AMD GCN Radeon

. controller- DualShock 4

. connectivity- 802.11 b/g/n Wireless, Bluetooth 2.1, 

USB 3.0, Ethernet 10/100/1000

. online services- Playstation Network

. I enjoy the ps4 because its an easy platform to connect with your friends and other players and its a great way to play good quality games. the games i play are Overwatch, GTA V and call of duty.

- ps4










- ps1

Impact of computer games on society

Negatives:

Excessive playing time- spending extended periods of time playing computer games can have a negative impact on your education or in the workplace. this can happen if the player does not get enough sleep.





Social isolation- if a player spends too much time playing games they can put themselves at risk of being isolated from the rest of society. this will then have a negative effect on their social skills.


Costs- because gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry prices keep going up year by year whether it be new games (including the more expensive collectors editions)
, platforms and equipment. it can also be the case if your child wants all these new things and you just cant afford to keep up with it. electricity, internet and other hardware costs all bring up the price and make things even harder.

Positives:

Hand-eye coordination- hand-eye coordination has been seen to improve for surgeons and sports players after spending time playing a game. their reactions times improve as well and all this is achieved without putting risk on the person if they have to practice.

Brain training- brain training games are mainly made for hand held devices so they are readily available. these are used because they make learning more enjoyable and people seem to focus more when learning in a game format.

Thinking and strategy skills- war and football manager strategy games heavily rely on taking your time to make the right decisions to get the best outcomes. these strategies can be related to real world situations and used to improve upon what you are doing.

Overwatch

Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer game that heavily revolves around teamwork and team composition. the game was developed and published by blizzard entertainment.

Genre- first-person shooter





Overwatch is a great game and heavily promotes teamwork and playing as a party. the thing that keeps this game so refreshing is the selection of 22 different characters and the variety that this brings; such as combining special moves and abilities.

The one thing that could let this game down is it's complete lack of campaign mode. This limits the amount of solo play you can do in the game. Blizzard is countering this however by gradually releasing "hero shorts" for each character which gives an insight into how the hero came to be and their backgrounds.

The heroes are broken down into 4 different classes- Assault, defense, tank and support. the assault class primarily focuses on dealing high damage at a fast pace and generally has low health. the defence class generally has abilities that help defend the capture points or payloads and normally benefits the team as a whole as well as containing the snipers within the game. Tanks are high health characters that are meant to take hits for their team and have very limited range. Finally the support class contains the healers of the game, these characters can normally heal them selves and have abilities that greatly benefit their time; this comes at the cost of having very minimal damage.

Unit 78: Digital Graphics for Games Design

Computer Games Graphics

Concept art- this is when you are basically brainstorming ideas for the development of your game such as the designs for characters, vehicles, weapons etc. Concept art is also used to show a game that may have unfinished graphics or parts of the game that are due to change.

The piece above was concept art for the game "The Last Of Us"

                                           Character concept art for a character in mad max

Texture art- manipulating a sort of background to give you the feeling that one texture is different to another without you actually being able to feel it. for example in this screenshot from gta v you can see that the tree would feel different to the rocks that are next to it.

Background graphics- this is just whatever is in the background of a game such as a wall or the floor or a mountain in the distance. in this farcry 3 screenshot you can see the characters which are apart of the foreground but also the mountains and trees in the background.

In-game interface (the heads up display)- the "HUD" in a game is the display that you see in the screen which gives you information that will help you throughout whatever you have to do, this includes ammo, health, xp, map, compass, etc. this is the hud for call of duty: black ops 2, it shows their ammo count, the mini map and the score for the game mode that they are playing.

Print media art- this is the art work outside of the game that will help to sell it, such as game packaging, the box cover, manual, label and posters that advertise the game. 

Pixel art- the type of artwork for your game and the characters inside it. first there is 2d sprites which are a flat image.

There are also 3d isometric sprites which give more potential with direction in games.

Types of digital game graphics

Raster images (BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPG)- this is a sort of lower quality image that if zoomed into you can see each individual pixel that it is made up of

JPG- this compresses the data to be much smaller in the file 

BMP- bit map pro

GIF- you normally use these for simple logos, icons or symbols, these images are great for creating low resolutions images for websites

Vector images (PSD, WMF, FLA, AI)- these are images that take up little memory but can scale up perfectly no matter how far in you zoom

PSD- the default format that photoshop uses to save data

Gaming machines

I am going to be talking about different gaming platforms

Arcade- these were machines specifically made to play one game and you had to pay a set price each go that you had.
.normally you would have to go to a certain place to use an arcade machine 

.one game per arcade machine

.each machine is specific to the game

.have to pay every time
.not portable
.built in screen
.play games such as dark escape, pac-man, donkey kong.

Console- this is a platform almost purely made just to play games, they are much more simple than computers and mormally cheaper if you're going to get a really good pc.

.made for multiple games
.need a controller
.portable but difficult
.needs a screen
.can run multiplayer games such as call of duty, halo, fifa.

Pc- Pc's are machines with hundreads of uses, they do actually offer the best quality of games if you are willing to pay the high price.

.made to play loads of games
.you can use a keyboard, mouse and a controller for the controls
.some portable pc's, such as laptops
.can play multiplayer games
.you need some sort of monitor
.can play most games
.has other applications to use and other uses

Mobile- originally made just to make phone calls and text messages, mobile phones have kept expanding since. Now you can download tonnes of different games that have been downloaded millions of times.

.easily portable.
.plays multiplayer games.
.touchscreen controls
.screen is built in, all-in-one
.plays multiple games

level 3 gaming

unit 78: digital graphics for computer games

Artistic styles within gaming

In this piece i will be going over different art styles that people use when creating games or images.

Art style 1- Photo-realism- this is where you have a high quality image  that creates a realistic feeling but is not an actual photograph.

Battlefield 1(2016) is a good example of where the developers have created high quality models that make you  feel like you're right in the battlefield.

art style 2- cell shading- this is non-realistic art work that heavily relies on colours for a much more "cartoony" look to it.

Team Fortress 2 is a great cell shaded game that gives an immersive feeling whilst not looking realistic.

art style 3- pixel art- pixel art is normally used for 2d games and is not of high quality.

Pong is one of the original pixel games that even though it wasn't very realistic it was still addictive and sold lots of copies.

art style 4- exaggeration- this is when you take a cartoon style game and exaggerate some of their features to make them seem over the top

dragon ball z is very exaggerated whether it comes to the character design or within the fights that they have.