What is a game engine?

A game engine is a peace software made for the creation of video games developers use them to make games the core things that make up a game engine are as followed

·         rendering engine

·         a physics engine

·         sound

·         scripting

·         animation

·         artificial intelligence

·         networking

·         streaming

·         memory management

·         threading

·         localization support

·         scene graph

 The process of game making is often made cheap by reusing adapting the same game engine to create different games

Game maker

In game maker you can make a game by using simple drag and drop tools like an “if” command or you can use scrip’s you can edit and make images in the software and add sound it has rendering engine a physics engine it’s a fun easy software to use to get in to designing games

P1 Understand theory and applications of 3D

Applications of 3D: for example film, TV, animation, models, product design, web, games, education, and architectural walk-through.

Displaying 3D polygon animations
Application programming interface, eg Direct3D, OpenGL

API is a set of routines protocols and tools for building software direct3d is a graphics api for Microsoft Windows OpenGL Is a cross language multiplatform API for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics

Graphics pipeline, for example modelling, lighting, viewing, projection, clipping, scan conversion, texturing and shading, and display.

Graphics pipeline is when you turn 3D model into what the computer displays Lighting is used to show when a light comes from and shading Viewing is where you see the graphics

Displaying 3D polygon animations

Rendering techniques (radiosity ray tracing)

Rendering engines

An engine that renders graphics
Distributed rendering techniques

Distributed rendering also known as Parallel Rendering that renders parallel objects

Lighting

Lighting shading that can add shadows and make an object seem more 3d

Textures

The outside look of an object but not the shape

Fogging

Fogging is where you make the background less detailed by covering it in fog to save on computer power

Shadowing

Where you add a shadow to where you emulate the sun being

Vertex and pixel shaders

Is used in hlsl to add shaders

Level of detail

the less detail you use the faster the game can load and it will also use less computer power the more detail you model is the long you game will take to load if you have more than one model in you came at a time maybe 100 you will need to low the level of detail to make sure people who play your game can play in on low end spec pcs

Geometric theory

Vertices

Is a point in your 3d engine space on a y x and z table

Lines

It’s a line

Curves

A curve

Edge

It’s a pointed or not side of a shape

Polygons

A polygon is a collection of vertices edges and faces

Element

Lines curves edges faces vertices put some of these together make a polygon

Primitives

The starting block of 3d modelling

Meshes, for example wireframe

Is when you take away the face of the object you are making to just see the outline?

Coordinate geometry (two-dimensional, three-dimensional?)

How things are plotted in in 3d is like 2d x,y but it also has a z to show how wide it is

Surfaces

A surface is the showing side of a 3d or 2d model

Mesh construction

Box modelling

Is where you take a primitive and shape it in to whatever you want?

Extrusion modelling

Its like box modelling but its more complex

Using common primitives, for example cubes, pyramids, cylinders, and spheres.

Where you use base shapes to make more complex shapes

3D development software

Software, for example 3D Studio Max, Maya, Lightwave, AutoCAD, Cinema 4D, 
File formats, for example 3ds, .mb, .lwo, .C4d, and plug-ins.

All these program have tools and options to make whatever 3d model you want is you know how to use each tool

Constraints

Polygon count

You can’t have a really high polygon because if peoples computer aren’t up to high spec it will crash and burn 

File size

You can have a really big game but if you do some people may not be able to play it or if they can they may not because it takes too long to install

Rendering time.

You need to make sure your game doesn’t take 2 hours to load because if it does you will put a lot of people off playing the game you need to make a trade of on how good the game looks and how well the game works 

link to my work

unit 22 /74 assignment 1
ethics or handed it in
genres or handed it in
style or handed it in
game consept or handed it in
Assignment 2:  Unit 20 handed it in
black jack game or handed it in

game consoles or handed it in
unstopables handed it in
 story
story bored or handed it in
story or handed it in
power point or handed it in

black jack game

black jack game

the iPhone 6 Plus includes a 5.5-inch 1924.8 by 1082.71080p display 401 PPI 4.8 in 120 mm by 2.7 in 69 mm 16:9 aspect ratio The iPhone 6 Plus also features a 2915 mAh battery It has a Dual-core 1.4 GHz Cyclone Processor ARM v8-based It include an Apple A8 system-on-chip, and an M8 motion co-processor it also has Up to 150 Mbits download speed it runs on the ios 8 and has an app store witch I could sell a game on that has been developed for iPhone on the pc all you would need is windows and the game once its been exported

when you play it on a pc then you would use the key board and mouse and either click the buttons or press a button to make the game do what you want where as if you was to play the game on a phone you would use virtual buttons by touching them on your phone to make the game do what you want. If you were to have the game on a pc the screen size would be the size of your screen where if you to play it on a phone it would be the size of your phone the specs should be able to handle and 2d game I would make and the game maker engine dose most of the porting the only different really is the screen size and the hci

To port to a browser

First you have to choose the HTML target then uploaded to a server

It will run the same as the windows game where you click on hit or stick

You would have to change the screen size to fit the screen or it will look like this

game platforms

Task 1) Create a list describing the list of different game platforms out there.

name: Xbox 

Graphics capabilities: 233 MHz nVidia NV2A

Size (and portability): it was kinda big but you could still take it round a friends or move to another room 

Processor power: Custom 733 MHz Intel Pentium III "Coppermine-based" processor

Memory size: 64 MB of DDR SDRAM @ 200 MHz

Storage size: 8 or 10 GB internal Hard Drive 

Games available: 999 games link to page with the games on it 

Series: Xbox 

name: Xbox 360

Graphics capabilities:500 MHz ATI Xenos

Size (and portability):it was kinda big but you could still take it round a friends or move to another room

Processor power:3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon

Memory size:512 MB of GDDR3 RAM clocked at 700 MHz

Storage size:256 MB

Games available: 1,136 games link to page with the games on it 

Series: Xbox

name:Xbox one

Graphics capabilities:853 MHz AMD Radeon GCN architecture (inside of APU)

Size (and portability):it was kinda big but you could still take it round a friends or move to another room

Processor power:Custom 1.75 GHz AMD 8 core APU (2 Quad-Core Jaguar modules)

Memory size:8 GB DDR3 (5 GB available to games)[14]

Storage size:500 GB internal hard drive

Games available:348 link to page with the games on it 

Series:Xbox

name: PlayStation 

Graphics capabilities: 32-bit Sony GPU

Size (and portability):it is smaller that its Xbox counter part 

Processor power: MIPS R3000A-compatible 32-Bit RISC CPU with 5KB L1 cache, running at 33.8688 MHz 

Memory size: 2 MB main DRAM

Storage size: needs a memory card 

Games available: there are about 1500 games for the play station link to game with games on it

Series: PlayStation 

name: play station 2

Graphics capabilities:"Graphics Synthesizer" clocked at 147.456 MHz

Size (and portability):its not to big can move it around 

Processor power:"Emotion Engine" clocked at 294.912 MHz (launch), 299 MHz (newer models), with 128-bit SIMD capabilities

Memory size:32 MB of Direct RAMBUS

Storage size:PlayStation 2 memory card 8 megabyte

PlayStation memory card (128 kilobytes/1 megabit)

40 GB Hard Drive (add-on)

Games available:3874 and the PlayStation 1 games link to games 

Series: play station 

name: PlayStation 3 

Graphics capabilities:550 MHz NVIDIA/SCEI RSX 'Reality Synthesizer'

Size (and portability):its not to big can move it around 

Processor power:3.2 GHz Cell Broadband Engine with 1 PPE & 7 SPEs

Memory size:256 MB system and 256 MB video

Storage size:2.5-inch SATA hard drive

(20 GB, 40 GB, 60 GB, 80 GB, 120 GB, 160 GB, 250 GB, 320 GB or 500 GB included) (upgradeable)

Games available: 812 games link

Series:play station

name: PlayStation 4 

Graphics capabilities:Semi-custom AMD GCN Radeon

Size (and portability):its not to big can move it around 

Processor power:Semi-custom 8-core AMD x86-64 Jaguar CPU (integrated into APU)[7]

Secondary low power processor (for background tasks)[8]

Memory size:8 GB GDDR5 (unified)

256 MB DDR3 RAM (for background tasks)[8]

Storage size:Hard drive, 500GB (user upgradeable, supports SSD)

Games available: 178 games link

Series: PlayStation 

name: psp

Graphics capabilities:powered by cpu

Size (and portability):its bigger than your phone but small enough to fit in your pocket can play on the move or while your on a bus

Processor power:333 MHz MIPS R4000

Memory size:32 MB 

Storage size:Memory Stick Duo

Games available: 822 list 

Series:PlayStation 

name:game cube 

Graphics capabilities: ATI Flipper @ 162 MHz

Size (and portability):easy to carry 

Processor power:IBM PowerPC Gekko @ 485 MHz

Memory size:Main RAM 24 MB 1T-SRAM, 16 MB DRAM
Video RAM 3 MB embedded 1T-SRAM

Storage size: memory card 

Games available: 648 games list

Series: nintendo 

name: wii 

Graphics capabilities: ATI "Hollywood"

Size (and portability):its small can move it around easy but you cant lay it without pluging it in 

Processor power: IBM PowerPC "Broadway

Memory size:24 MB "internal" 1T-SRAM integrated into graphics package
64 MB "external" GDDR3 SDRAM
3 MB GPU frame buffer memory

Storage size:512 MB Internal flash memory
though you can put SD cards, SDHC cards
Nintendo GameCube Memory Cards in and use them 

Games available:1359 games list  and can play all the game cube games 

Series: nintendo 

name: wii u 

Graphics capabilities:550 MHz AMD Radeon "Latte"

Size (and portability):its about the same size as the wii but can only be lied down 

Processor power:1.24 GHz Tri-Core IBM PowerPC"Espresso"

Memory size:2 GB DDR3

Storage size:Internal flash memory:

8 GB but can use usb drives and sd/sdhc cards  

Games available: 457 games list and all the wii games

Series: nintendo

name: 3ds

Graphics capabilities: pika200 

Size (and portability):its small bigger than your phone but can probbly put it in your coat pocket and can pay anywhere you go 

Processor power:268 MHz ARM11 MPCore quad-core 

Memory size:256 MB (64MB dedicated to the OS), 10 MB VRAM

Storage size:1 GB internal flash memory

Games available: 612 games link

Series: Nintendo

name: pc 

Graphics capabilities:a pc can use any kind of gpu so i cant really name any but   the average gameing pc has a better gpu than any of the consoles and costs less and even cheaper if you build it yourself 

Size (and portability): well you can have a laptop that is pre built that can run off battery power so you can use it on the move or you can house your computer in a tower that is bigger so it can have bigger and more powerful hardware in it but you can use it while on the move and it will be heaver  

Processor power:you can have any processor in your computer but today on average the intel i5 is used in most gaming pcs and if you have got an expensive build then you will have a i7 in it 

Memory size:you can have any kind of ram in your computer on average gaming pcs will have 8gb of ddr3 ram 

Storage size: can have any amount of storage space from hard drives to soild state drives 

Games available: millons 

Series: master race 

Microsoft Xbox series 5/10

Xbox 

i never got to play on the Xbox because i was always playing on the game cube when it was relevant it wasn't to powerful and didn't have that many good games.

i rate it 5/10

Xbox 360

i did have my own Xbox 360 and it did have some good games on it i liked that most games had a split screen option to play with your friend but the hard ware was out of date compered to the average pc and it use to over heat so you would have to send it away to get it repaired and the online was terrible you would always get 10 year old screaming down a open microphone saying thing about your mum and such in the end it was good at the start but got worse as time went on 

i rate it 

6/10

Xbox one

i didnt own a xbox one but from what iv seen its hard ware is inferior to the ps4 and pc so it cant make games good as good as the other platforms can they finely sorted out the red ring of death in this generation it dosn't have many game out at the moment they say they are going to release more games if they are any good on the other hand only time will tell 

i rate it

7/10 

Sony PlayStation series 5/10

PlayStation

i do  have my own PlayStation it was one of the 1st consoles to have a cd rom reader and when i was a kid it was great i played a lot of spyro, tony hawk and soul caliber and i still have it today though i don't use it anymore the hard ware wasn't the greatest but it still looked alright but couldn't compare with the pcs graphics  it had alot of great games though but you can play them all on a pc now so there is no point in having one anymore

i rate it
8/10

PlayStation 2

i did have my own PlayStation 2 but it was only a slim version that killed it self in the end but i mostly just play ps1 games on it you could go online on it but i never did the graphics looked alright but they went anything compare to pcs graphics i think the ps2 was better  than the xbox because it had a dvd player with it 

i rate it
6/10

PlayStation 3

i do have a ps3 in my house witch i have played a few games on such as sonic all starts, uncharted and soul caliber the games look alright but as they only run at 720p on a big screen like most people have now a days they don't look good ps and Xbox have dragged gaming down making new releases have to be dumped down and look bad because the hard ware cant run them the only good thing about the playstation is tha tyou can pick one up pretty cheap and it has a alright blue ray player but other than that i don't see anything good about geting one over a pc 

i rate it
6/10    

PlayStation 4

PlayStation Portable

i do have a psp its alright to play something while your on a long drive but the games look bad and dont run good and they crash all the time there are a few good games for them but they feel vut down to be able to run on a psp i would prefer a game boy instead if i had to have something to play on a long drive 

i rate it
4/10  

Nintendo series 9/10

game cube

i do have my own game cube so did my sister and my step dad because they where great little machines i remember palying legend of zelda :oot, time spliters 2 mario sunshine, mario cart and resentevil 4 alot of times on the game cube shore they didnt look the best compared to pc but they had great game play and you could only get a lot of these game on Nintendo produces  now you can play all these games on a pc or wii but back in the day the game cube was a must have you could go online with them though i never tried one of the best consoles of all time 

i rate it
10/10

WII

i do have a wii in my house and i have played alot of game on it like mario cart legend of zelda mario galaxy and wii sports they are all great games and you can put alot of hours in them they dont look great but they do there job can play all the gamecube game and even use the controller in the gamecube games and wii games they have a cool controller the wii remote where you can ponit it at the screen and it will move where you want it you could haves have a nunchuk witch added a analog stick to use in your games it was less of a play a game and more of play a game with your family like bowling or mario kart and that make it fun because you not just siting there for hour by yourself you can go online useing it google stuff play with people and theres no voice chat so you dont have to worry about some one telling you they are going to shag your mum 

i rate it
9/10 

WII U
i do have a wii u in my house i have played afew games on it like mario cart 8 mostly mario cart is great and looks great though its only in 720p but the wii u is more powerful than the xbox and ps3 what it was competing agents when it came out but it didn't do very well in sales the worse of any of the nintendo consoles i think that is because it didn't have many games people wanted to play sur eit had Mario and i bet everyone who has got a wii u has got it and probably sold a lot consoles because of it but even if the wii u didnt sell many it dosnt matter becasue nintendo is so rich and well known they could keep loseing there profit and still be going for another 30 years you can go online with it to play games and download all of the old games from the 64 game cube wii and they have a big controller with a screen on it and play games on it while someone els is useing the tv
i rate it
7/10

pc master race

i have a pc and i spend alot of time on it becasue you can do really anything like google stuff download games movie music software the greatest of all soft wear has to be steam steam is the go to gaming client there is there are like a million games on it i my self have 834 games and  698 dlc on my account with a price of £7,600 and over 5000 hours on games i have a powerful rig that lets me make my games look amazing and you get to use the best input device the keybored and mouse and if you want a controller what more can you say when you can do your banking and play the newest games on max on the same machine 

i rate it

15/10  

p1 sounds

List a range of music/FX sources.


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/

http://audiojungle.net

soundsnap

Sounddogs.com

http://www.freesound.org/people/Stomp/sounds/17641/

http://www.soundjay.com/

http://soundfxnow.com/ 

Using at least 3 of your favourite games explain the purpose of game music.

You need to consider: mood, action, suspense; intro sequence; closing sequence; credit sequence; plot advancement; interactive adaptive music

to make you feel good about doing something
to make you hyped for the game
to make you feel bad for doing something
to tell you something

  check my unit 1 work talking about legal considerations

Psychology of sound

List at least 3 games (or films) which use sound as information (speech, iconography, symbolism and or metaphors) to convey information

oblivion sound as people talking to you to tell you what to do in what ever voice as in an aggressive voice or in a pleased voice to the apricot convionsion
they wanted you to feel like you was talking to someone who has feelings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKaEk2KESYM


hearthstone sound in as when one of your minion is damaged healed or you using a spell makes different sounds there's even a sound to tell you if you cant play anything
they wanted you too feel like your doing good or bad depending on what happens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL8XxTzBLjo

my game when the boss comes it starts playing bad music to make you know that your in trouble

 I wanted to to make the playing feel raced and paniced