Aamina Khan MA Games Design

Initially I tried to re-do my street view using concept techniques I learnt from FZD tutorial. I chose a different colour scheme which I felt suited the environment more and avoided using neon and sharp colours like in my first attempt a few weeks ago. I also considered perspective more and starting blocking out core elements and added some elements of detail. Here it is in comparison to my first attempt of the street view: Following the world-building planning I started to concept artwork of the appearance of halite-armoured creatures as seen below. I started compiling various aesthetics of salt crystals that could be used for reference:  I started with combining references of a whale with the pinkish halite (from Searles Lake) and digitally painted the scene below to create perspective, mood and colour. I combined the colour swatch of the following two images to create a colour scheme: The picture below is my first attempt a...

On the same morning I was waiting for my tutor Jim to give feedback on my final literature review draft, I had the pleasure of coming across an article about a new video game studio (Brass Lion Entertainment) that had been set up in response to AAA studios not taking diverse representation seriously enough. The link to the article can be seen here . Unfortunately I was unable to include it into my review as Jim was adamant I leave my essay alone and suggested I blog about it here so here I am.  I felt that this article summed up quite succinctly the whole point of my review, which was addressing the problem that studios have in regards to diverse representation. It is not enough to insert X character with Y characteristics from Z background into a video game like ticking off a checklist, and Brass Lion are one of many small studios that have had to break away from bigger names to create video games they would like to see. I don't want to talk about it too much as I have alre...