Lumina

Lumina is an interactive processing sketch with game elements. This project is idealized to explore storytelling elements in game design. As the character, a lonly boy lost in a dark cave, tries to find his way out, he finds a being made out of light called Lumina. Their movement is connected in the game and the player have to solve a maze in order to meet Lumina at the end.

The entire game is composed with 4 screens, that will change causing the illusion that are actually more scenes than it appear. The role project was inspired in the inverse mouseX mechanics, where the player solves the puzzle but also guide the second character in the darkness. The main goal of the game is to meet Lumina at the end.

To make the maze collisions a color sampling was implemented, a invisible map was made colored in back and in white will tell where the mouse can move or where it can’t. Although the game is not as fast to have a fluid movement the collision works with the mouse.

Lumina (1)

Final_prototype includes:

– A tool(not done by me) to sketch out the maze for the game , I’ll tweak it to invert black and white every time I press a button and maybe to export a .jpg every time as well.

– Character walk, I`ll include the graphics and maybe an array of images for the walking cycle

– Possible ending Animation – cool animation done fooling a tutorial, symbolizes the character getting out of the maze

– Simple Collision, used an example of color sampler and background imagens of an example, but with the tweak logic to contrains the mouse not to move only in allowed areas.

Here is the proposal, much more simple than the first one. There is a great distress in designing a game with a interactive narrative in the game design community that’s why I was very challenged when the game had to be narrative so that’s why it took me a long time to design it.

If you don’t believe me here is a video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKfBSUKI9PA

The proposal pdf: http://www.scribd.com/doc/130296004/Lumina

Assignment 1 – Simple Drawing of a Sugar Skull

sugarCandy

Assignment 2 – A variable drawing of the eye of a monster

squareMonster

Assignment 3 – A dice that uses loops and if statements

Dice3faces_working

Assignment 4 – First test of sprite character for mid term, using if, mouseX and mouseY and modulus

CharacterFollowsMouse

DrSeuss

An interactive mouse sketch that is about exploring the world of Dr Seuss, based on the book “Oh the places you’ll go”.

For this week I`ve made a code that is the beginning of the code necessary to make a character move in a game.

character_movement

The dice will display the number picked every time the window is open. It took long to post it because the code was bugging over too much comments (/* */). I’ll post the problematic version, to fix it just delete all comments.

Dice_with_3_faces_Version_2_0_