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Dinosaur Research

On my Mindmap I have chosen some things I am intending to research those being Horizon zero dawn, Jurassic park, Pterosaurs, Ark survival evolved, and Dinosaurs

Horizon Zero Dawn:

Horizon zero dawn is a post apocalyptic game where the world and its peoples tech have gone back to ancient tech like bows but with a more modern tech twist on it. A lot of the animals in horizon zero dawn are based upon dinosaur designs but are made mechanical, these animals are the main source of the devices and materials that the people in the game use.

I like the unquie designs of the animals in this game as the mechanical design is unquie compared to the normal repltilian design dinosaurs have.

Jurassic park:

Jurassic park is an a movie about a safari park on an island, where they have managed to bring back dinosaurs via dna sampling and modification from mosquitos. Throught the movie a bunch of the dinosaurs escape and start causing chaos on the island. The main dinosaurs in the movie are Trex, Velociraptor, Dilphosaurus, and Triceratops.

The dinosaurs in jurassic park have good designs which take a lot of insipration from what the dinosaurs were believed to look like at the time, a few of the dinosaurs were changed size, like the velociraptors were signicantly sized up as they are were relativly small in real life and the dilphosaurus which was sized down from its real counterpart.

Pterosaurs:

Pteosaurs are an extinct clade of flying reptiles and are the first known vertibrates to gain flight. Pterosaurs are mainly split into 2 groups rhamphorhynchoids and pterodactyloids.

rhamphorhynchoids are generally indentifiable by a few key features being generally small, having broad wings, short necks, short and robust skulls, a large rear membrane, were poor on the ground and having long tails. rhamphorhynchoids are believed to be poor on the ground due to there large rear wing which held there back legs together making there mobility of the ground very limited, combining this info with their claws on there feet its assumed they spent a lot of there time in trees as they would be a lot better at climbing than they would be walking.

pterodactyloids are considerd the main group of pterosaurs and are the main one people think of. They are indentifiable by a few main features which are generally the reverse of the rhamphorhynchoids being large, narrow wings, long necks, long skulls often without teeth, a smaller rear wing, good on the ground and had short tails.

Ark survival evolved:

Ark survival evolved is an survival game where u are on an island with tons of prehistoric animals which u can tame, ride and many other things. The game involves animals from many diffrent periods across the mesozoic era and even later.

Arks animal designs intrest me as it has a wide variety of animals and designs to look at as it includes nearly 200 diffrent animals with unquie designs which can also get diffrent colours from the system in the game.

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Dystopian Research

On my Mindmap I have chosen some things I am intending to research those being Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout, Helldivers 2, Warhammer 40k, Kingdom Come Deliverance.

Cyberpunk 2077:

Cyberpunk 2077 is a cyberpunk dystopian set in the future with the main theme being commercialisation, the world of cyberpunk 2077 is an alternative history where the soviet union didn't collapse and japan became a superpower as shown in its ascetics throughout the game.

In cyberpunk2077 the place u play in is called night city, a city with vibrant designs which take heavy inspiration from japanese culture and style.

the general theme and designs are what i like from cyberpunk and intend to take inspiration from as i like the futuristic theme and overall design the game has.

Fallout:

Fallout series is a dystopian wasteland based on an alternate history where america gets nuked. The fallout series is based on how the 50s thought the future was going to be, this gives the game a unique look and aesthetic from most dystopians. The reason for why the world of fallout is unknown but the main theory is that it was done by vaultec a company focused around making nuclear vaults, its believed they did this so they could get people inside there vaults to experiment on them.

I very much like the themes and art style of the fallout series as across the games they've had a very stand out style with there unique old yet futuristic style, i think this is good inspiration since it differs decently from most other dystopians.

Helldivers 2:

Helldivers 2 is a futuristic sci-fi game where u are fighting against aliens and robots to defend super earth which is a futuristic earth where the planet is united. A large part of helldivers 2 is how super earth is a dystopian planet full of propaganda, throughout the game you are told you are fighting to defend super earth from the enemies, however this is not the case as for all the wars going on were started by super earth for some kind of profit.

I like the sci-fi themes of helldivers 2 and the propaganda idea interest me.

Warhammer 40k:

The warhammer universe is very dystopian across multiple factions, the one i want to focus on is the imperium of man. The imperium of man has a massive classism thing with the rich and noble living in luxury while the poor average man lives in the slums of a hive city. A hive city is a massive city with multiple floors across it with the lower u go in the floors the worse off the people become.

The classism is the main thing i want to focus on for this with the priests, traders, officials, mechacnium and many other members of higher society live at the top of the hive cities being able to see daylight and have a life of luxury with good food and the people on the lower levels live without the sun, good food and live in cramp conditions.

Kingdom Come Deliverance:

Kingdom come deliverance is a medieval rpg based on history. The theme and story of kingdom come deliverance is based in 1403 around a war that occurred in Bohemia. The war was based on a real war that happend and most the characters in kingdom come deliverance are based on real people who were around during that time.

In kingdom come deliverance the ui and the items have a unique art style i enjoy as its based on the old medieval style of painting and looks really stylised and blends in well with the theme of the game

I chose kingdom come deliverance as i enjoy the unique art style it has and the way it takes heavy inspiration from history. I especially enjoy the medieval theme as i think it would make a unique contrast compared to the other games i have researched.

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Apocalypse Research

On my Mindmap I have chosen some things I am intending to research those being Doom , Warhammer, Wolfenstein, Zomboid, and Plague tale innocence

Doom:

For themes and art style doom is a good example of what I intend to do. The doom games are based around killing demons that are invading earth, mars and other places humanity are based at. In the Doom games u play as a marine who we only know as doom guy / doom slayer throughout the games.

Throughout the games u fight many demons, whos designs vary throughout the games, I mainly take inspiration from the designs in doom 2 as they are a bit more cartoony looking and I think they'll suit my style a bit better over the other doom games.

In the Doom games u get access to many different weapons as u go through the game, I like this and intend to take inspiration from it as I enjoy the multiple weapon options doom has.

Warhammer 40k:

I chose Warhammer 40k as it has a similar theme and a lot of the art for has demons of various looks and designs which will give me good inspiration for my art.

The specific part of the warhammer universe im intrested in is the chaos gods which are evil entitys which are like the forces of nature, the main 2 i want to look into for my inspiration is nurgle and khorne.

Nurgle is the chaos god of death, disease, rebirth and life. His general theme is that of disease and growth as with most of the art of his demons which shows them diseased, damaged and bloated. his demons also have an obession with counting and they consider a few numbers to be holy like 3 and 7, his demons are generally seen as jolly among themselves and they call nurgle grandfather and consider his diseases and plauges to be gifts.

Khorne is the chaos god of war, battle, honour and blood. His general theme is just war and destruction and most his demons have the generic demon look of red, horns and very musular. his demons have some things they say during war like "blood for the blood god" and "skulls for the skull throne". his demons also tend to try and seek out the strongest enemies they can so they can raise in favour with khorne.

Wolfenstein:

Wolfenstein is often considerd the first first person shooter game and many of the the staples of the genre. In the wolfenstein games ur main goal is to kill nazis to prevent them from taking over the world.

I picked wolfenstien as the art in the earlier games like wolfenstein 3d is the type of art i intend to do, being 2d pixel art suited for a 3d enviornment. i like this type of art as looks intruging and gives a unquie look to the games that its used in.

Project Zomboid:

Project Zomboid is an isometric survival game about zombies in an alternative history. The art in zomboid is a mixture of 3d models and pixel art. the characters, zombies and vehicles in zomboid are all 3d models but the buildings, icons and a lot of the items are 2d pixel art.

This art style is part of why i chose it as i have not seen many games with similar styles of art, the isometric view is a thing i like as it looks fairly different from most games and gives a unique perspective to the game that many other games don't have.

Plague Tale Innocence:

A plague tale innocence is a puzzle game set in the 14th century based around the hundred year war. The game focused on 2 siblings who are trying to escape the french inquisition and rats carrying the black plague at the same time.

The mechanics in a plague tale innocence interest me, mainly the hoarding of the rats and how they avoid fire, looks interesting to me being able to control the movement of something by limiting what places there willing to go. The look of the rats hoarding also interests me as it looks very creepy with they way they'll cover up very large amounts of the floor or all of it as they scurry around constantly moving looks very disturbing to me and i think it would work well for what i intend to do.

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Dystopian Mindmap

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Dinosaur Mindmap

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Apocalypse Mindmap

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Class Mind Map

The mind map is very big but a few thigs on it caught my eye and gave me ideas.

1 being dinosaurs because they look cool and making a game around them seems like it would be fun.

Another being apocalyptic as it reminded me of doom 2 and gave me the idea of doing something with a similar aesthetic and art style to that

Another being dystopian and cyberpunk 2077 as I like the theme of cyberpunk and the general design of dystopias and I think it would make a good idea

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Skills Mindmap