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wii ice hockey

i searched for wii sports ice hockey and this is what came up, Kidz Sports Ice Hockey is a sports game for the Nintendo Wii. It is part of the "Kidz Sports" series by Data Design Interactive. this game and the wii sports have a very similar style in the faces and character designs. i really like the character design in this game, and the face designs are a masterpiece, i love the uniqueness each character has, some look happy some look evil and some look scared, this adds to the emotions portrayed in this game and give a sympathetic atmosphere for the players playing those characters. if i was to create my characters in 3D i would take inspiration from these and create very similar looking ones because i really like the style.

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wii sports

Wii Sports is a 2006 sports simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The 1.0 (pre-release) version of the game was released in North America along with the Wii on November 19, 2006, and the 1.1 version was released in Japan, Australia, and Europe the following month. wii sports is a big game and i thought it would be good to research and see how the ice hockey game runs, and to my surprise they did not have an ice hockey game, which i was shocked by. wii sports has a big variety of different sports to play so i assumed they would have ice hockey. this has made me want to create an ice hockey game mode that will be suitable for wii sports. wii sports brings back a lot of memories and being able to play with your friends and family made the experience so much better, so that what i want to include in my game a multiplayer version so you can experience it with others.

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jet pack joyride

Jetpack Joyride is a 2011 side-scrolling endless runner action video game created by Halfbrick Studios. It was released for iOS devices on the App Store on September 1, 2011 and has been ported to other systems. i also wanted to look at jetpack joyride because its another very different endless runner as its a side scrolling one that you only see the side of the game. one thing i really like about this game is the atmosphere of you feeling really small in this massive factory surrounded by lots of enemies and traps, i like how the character is not taking up the whole page and is distracting from what to come in the game later on. 

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crossy road 

Crossy Road is an arcade endless runner video game released on 20 November 2014. It was developed and published by Australian video game developer Hipster Whale, with the name and concept of the game playing on the age-old joke "Why did the chicken cross the road?" crossy road is a bit different to the other endless runners because of its birds eye view of the character and whats to come ahead. but this looks like a really fun and joyful, and the massive variation in characters really helps you customise your game to how you want it to be like so you can enjoy it even more. i really like this being able to have an option of what to choose to make you enjoy the game how you want to.

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subway surfers.

Subway Surfers is an endless runner mobile game co-developed by Kiloo and SYBO Games, private companies based in Denmark. It is available on Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, Kindle, and Windows Phone platforms and uses the Unity game engine. subway surfers i would say is more like minion rush because of all the bright and vibrant colours, as well as all the power ups and boosts you get when playing. i would use subway surfers as my main inspiration because of the ui and design is just what i can imagine when creating an endless runner. i feel like the shop and main screen ui is just perfect, and really fits the theme of the game with the bright vivid colours and the subways style of the font being spray paint. 

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temple run

Temple Run is an endless runner video game franchise of 3D endless running video games developed and published by Imangi Studios. The primary theme of the series is an explorer chased from a group of demon monkeys, however, the characters and theme vary between spin-offs. temple run has a more realistic style to it than minion rush does, although this is very pixilated because of the time it was made in. this is again about dodging whats coming up infront of you and collecting the coins. this game is again very simple and i feel like i want to create a more fun interactive game than just swiping when seeing a tree branch.

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minion rush

Minion Rush is a mobile/PC action endless runner video game in the Despicable Me franchise. i have looked at this because i came up with the idea of an endless runner hockey version. minion rush has a very cartoony style to it which is great because i can link back to this when creating my work because of my cartoony style as well. i wouldn't say they are exactly like each others but they definitely have a bright funky vibrant style to it which fits in perfectly with my work. looking at minion rush it has given me a few ideas of what to include in my game, like the coins/bananas as well as the power ups. 

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nhl games covers

alot of nhl games covers and EA sports games have very similar covers every year, they usually put a player thats really well known and is doing really well that season on the front cover, this is to attract more people to play the game if they actually know who the player is. and the covers are usually very vibrant and intense with a player actually in a game or doing some sort of celebration, this adds excitement and intensity to the game when you want to play it. but this years one is very different. they have included two well known players, but this time they have just given them a boring basic pose front cover, this draws away from the intense and fierce front covers. i know this is a big accomplishment for the first female to be on a nhl cover but i feel as if she has been robbed, the could of included a really cool unique cover of her playing instead of just standing there. i understand why they have done this because its the first game that introduced a mixed mens and women's team, so they have two players on the front but this game really doesn't give me the drive and excitement to play it as the others do.

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nhl video games

as you can see like most games nhl has improved massively in the quality of the game. i have got a comparison of the latest games graphics, detail and quality and got an earlier version of the game which are a lot less detailed and realistic. the earlier ones are good to look at because obviously they give of that cartoony effect without intending too, because of the quality of devices and content that could of been made back then. one thing i really like about the earlier games is that when playing they have anger bars, and the more you hit/ attack the other player the more the bar goes up. once the bar hits the top the games goes into some street fighter mode and you start fighting with the other opponent. i think this is an amazing fun addition to the game and adds a bit of extra intensity when playing. i dont know if they still have it in the newest games but i really love this little side game, and really links in with ice hockey because in the real games they are always fighting and hitting into eachother. 

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This time lapse is me tracing around the stadium to give me a rough idea how stadiums work and are designed

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this was the capitol one arena stadium that we sat in to watch the game when we went to see them play against Philadelphia. i got one of the images i took on the day and traced around it to create the main outline of the stadium. this was quite good to use as ideas for my game and seeing what it would look like drawn as well. i have not yet had time to colour this in but if i was too it would be a very quick and simple colour in so that it would take too long and require a bunch of detail.

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i put together a few game concepts together on a worksheet and brainstormed some ideas of what can games ideas i have and what features they can include. my big one that i got the most ideas for is an endless runner, i feel like this hasn't been done before having a ice hockey/ sports endless runner and you can play it on the go wherever. this has a lot of features which i have labelled on the worksheet. the features included scoring goals with the puck you have, dodging dummies and players, and picking up gear. i also added in some bonuses like double points and also different skins and stats that can be upgraded. i took inspiration from a few different endless runner games and combined them. 

another game i thought of was like a wii sports theme and concept, and having these little mini games that you play with your character, like shooting, dribbling and defending. they are all very self explanatory but that what i like about the game, and then i found out that wii sports does not actually have ice hockey, i could include this in as well as a full game to play against another team.

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Time lapse for the goalie i designed, this was created in the same way and process as I did for the first two.

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this was the last player worksheet i did and i feel its only right to design a goalie. this is the starting goalie for the team and he had more interesting facial features than the other goalie did. i have drawn this character looking very afraid and scared for his life which is fitting because he is a goalie and is getting pucks hit at him at very high speeds. i have drawn him with his front part of the helmet on and off so you could see the moustache. creating a goalie was very different than creating an average player, this was because goalies wear a lot more padding and gear than your average players. i have also given him different colour gear to the others so that he is easily recognisable as being different and the goalie, this is how it usually is in sports games that involve a goalie. again he has a botched nose and an uneven face which gives the impression that he’s been playing for a long time and is very experienced.  

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This is the time lapse of me designing this players worksheet, as you can see I worked into this sheet the same way as I did in my first sheet.

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this is the second worksheet that i have completed of another hockey player in the washington team. this was another play that stood out to me and i think he is always the stand out player in the team. for this character i wanted to try and make him look angry, in the images i have chosen to use as a reference it definitely does not look like he is an angry player instead he looks the complete opposite but i thought it would be cool to make his character angry, and because he has lost a tooth it added to the anger anyway. 

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This is my time lapse of the first worksheet I done so that my process is clear on how I did everything.