About Me
Welcome to my portfolio! My name is Harry Jones, and I am excited to present to you my collection of my work in Games Design at Harlow College. My hobbies are playing video games with my friends on Xbox and walking my dog around the park. Throughout this portfolio you will see various of work that I made for my project that I’m currently working on and examples of my skills, experiences, and accomplishments in character design. I have given my dedicated time and effect on this project to showcase my work on this portfolio. I hope you will enjoy the different pieces of sections of this portfolio and learn about my passion for character design or animation.
Sketches
The image above is my front cover for my game I’m designing where you can see that the player is running away from a zombie behind them. Although it’s not finished it does show a quick sketch drawing of what I can do in a little time with some images to help me.
This is my games logo design sketch that I created during lesson which shows the title of my game ‘Stranded’ and also shows the planet earth to showcase my game being based in space. In addition I created a triangle shape outline for the game logo from an idea I had through researching. Therefore I used all the shapes and logos I could find until I found the right shapes and design for my game. I used the theme space because while growing I loved space topics such as planets, stars, and more wondrous stuff.
Art Work
The character I have presented here is called Riley Reeds. This is the main character of my game that I have created. Riley is an astronaut who is ordered to go up to space and investigate in a newly discovered bio mass that is being formed in the space station. As soon as Riley meets inside the station an undetected meteor emerges from the distance and strikes the space station causing the bio mass to spread throughout the area, infecting humans onboard.
The main style of gameplay will be played through a puzzle like structure where the player needs to figure a way out by searching for items that can either heal, unlock doors, or find weapons to protect yourself. The player needs to get out of the area before the oxygen levels fully depleted.
Characters
While using a website I have created my main character for my game as a skin for Minecraft. My goal for the skin I created is to show all the sides to my character as if a 3D model and use it for my Minecraft world to present my basic level of the map for my game.
The second Character that I’ve made is a Mutated Zombie with acid textures. The zombies will have a change in skin by different mutations where if the human was to be first infected more green will be visible throughout the body.
Animation
This is my first animation I worked on during the project and it’s a test run that I did also it shows the arm movement. My goal for this was to create an animation that worked and improve it later on for my final piece. I used some research though to help guide me towards the success to animation movement as at the very start the animation wasn’t going very smooth. This shows that I can use research to my advantage to help me with certain problems that hit me.
The Animation that I have used is a test run to demonstrate the basics of walk/run animations when I need to add animations that include with my game. I can use this animation to my game project for the animation that I was thinking of which is that the main character is running away from the zombies just like the sketch that I was gonna do for the front cover. The app I used for this animation is called fresco and the techniques and tools are very simple.
Minecraft World
During my project I have created a Minecraft World which resembles my Project ideas. Firstly is the noticeable space station that I have built to show the station is the map of my game. Secondly the meteor is moving towards the space station as the meteor contains gasses of biomass that can pierce the human skin. Lastly I added a separate aircraft so that the main character can go into the different bay to board the space station.
Padlet
The padlet wall is used for me to track my work and store all my valued work and failures on to one page so that it can be reviewed by others and myself.
Coding
Although my project is about creativity and drawing there is a bit of coding included to help use it on the game idea I am creating. The coding above is from Minecraft education coding lessons where the lesson is about functions and how to use them.
This code is the same as the previous one except expanded as I continued the lesson that helped me know what functions are and how to advance them. The whole reason why I did Minecraft is because its easier to access and easy to learn including step by step tutorials.
