Game Creation Society

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Game Creation Society

• Spring 2007 - Meeting 5 (02/16/2007)
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Todays Agenda

• Critiquing Characters
• Project Updates
• Quick Announcements
• GCS Logo Contest
• SCS Day (Sat Feb 24)
• Review of Bake Sale
• GCS Gold Discussion
• Reminders

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Critiquing Characters

• Greg Pengs

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What makes a successful character design?

• Senior Production Designer of Oddworld Farzad
  Varahramyan says
• The Genes character conception and visual design
• The Brain behavior and gameplay
• The Soul empathy and story
• Today we focus on The Genes

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Desirable Qualities

• Unique features
• Immediately recognizable
• cookie cutter characters
• Character Empathy
• Gender?
• Age?
• Race?
• Situation?
• Cultural Differences
• East vs. West

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More!

• The Halo Effect
• The Uncanny Valley
• KISS (keep it simple s)
• So what IS good character design?
• Varies greatly from game to game nearly
  impossible to pin down
• Although its pretty easily to point out bad
  character design
• What do you think are qualities of a good
  character design?

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Project Updates

• Arbalith II
• Bouken
• Dodging Wars
• Dreamscape
• Spherena
• Super GCS Bros
• Trichromic
• World of Power Monkey

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Announcements!

• Just a few today!
• GCS Logo Contest
• SCS Day (Sat Feb 24)

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Reminders!!!

• GCS Logo Contest
• (Sat Feb 24)
• Review of the GCS Bake Sale

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GCS Gold Policy Revisited

• Gold is voted on once per SCHOOL YEAR, at the end
  of Spring semester.
• A maximum of THREE games can be inducted into
  Gold per year.
• Any finished game (on the site) can be nominated
  for Gold, regardless of semester.
• Nominations will be done through e-mail to the
  officers two weeks before set date of vote. A
  short paragraph about why the game deserves Gold
  must be included with the nomination.

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Gold continued

• Anybody can nominate.
• The week before vote this list will be published,
  alongside with the paragraphs for additional
  information, and members encouraged to play the
  games on the list.
• Each member will write on a piece of paper their
  top 3 picks out of the nominations
• The top 3 games with the most votes will be
  inducted into Gold

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Retroactive voting

• We will be doing a retroactive vote of Gold, with
  Fall 2004-Spring 2005 and Fall 2005-Spring 2006
  Golds being awarded first. Then, at the end of
  the semester, we'll vote on Fall 2006-Spring
  2007.
• Brings the Gold potential to 9 at the end of the
  year.
• These votes will be simulated as if they occurred
  at the correct time
• The most recent version of older games will be
  used.

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Meeting Adjourned!

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