2016年11月13日星期日

【2016.10.20*】Theme Park

How would you make a modern theme park sim or management game? Blue sky: an endless runner, or maybe a post-apocalyptic strategy game?

 Ink-and-water animation: Mudi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7hopvX4rz8
 Game Xuan-yuan Sword2    Game Street Fighter5   From game Pal5
This is an action game of a modern city with a Chinese martial arts style.  It could be a fantasy design combined with Kung Fu. As in the Chinese Paladin series where you play a knight to live the life and beat evil. Or like the series of Sengouku Musou to descript famous stories from a certain Chinese period. In this Theme park, players can play any character. The most important things are that the leading players can experience the world full of Chinese style. For example, the backgrounds are drawn depicting Chinese ink painting. Chinese classical music will be added to the game with atmospheric winds effects along with some animal movement with realistic sound effects. The sounds will increase or fade  depending  on distance and perspective.  When players arrived at a new scene the screen will lock and a cryptic poem will give information about the games fables. The special effects also using  ink line paintings to keep the same style will give players insight into the mysterious eastern world. 

This work will not use old stories of China because it will be set in a modern city. Assuming that the Chinese Paladins have not all disappeared, I will try to see how their skills can be integrated into a modern roll. I will give a modern interpretation for them in this game with a `Paladin `based theme. I must give careful thought about the aim, the style, and form.
Controversial theme parks: what can’t theme parks do? Remembering traumas/can a park or a game be documentary? If so how?

Theme park is the platform for game expression. Because so many games are created fresh innovations are needed to attract players. Some topics are given more and more performance opportunities, while some of the other themes should be restricted or even banned.
Egregious description of the current political, or religious or racial discrimination issues should be added to the blacklist. For example a guilty theme game Grand Theft Auto 5 is not allowed to be publishing in some countries. These controversial comments had been mentioned in BBC-NEWs and The Huffington Post:
‘Two Australian retail chains have removed video game Grand Theft Auto V from sale in its stores, following complaints about the depiction of violence towards women. Target and Kmart stores pulled the game after a petition launched by three female survivors of violence gained more than 40,000 signatures. Target said the decision "was in line with the majority view of customers"......"It's a game that encourages players to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'health' points," the petition reads. "To see this violence that we lived through turned into a form of entertainment is sickening and causes us great pain and harm."......"This game may allow you to kill, hurt, bash and shoot anyone not just females and this game should be on the shelves all over the country. It's made for adults not children, we have the right to buy games despite their content," said Brett Herbert, who launched the petition. ’
‘Customer feedback: Jim Cooper, general manager of corporate affairs at Target, said that the decision to withdraw the game had not been taken lightly......"We've also had customer feedback in support of us selling the game, and we respect their perspective on the issue. "However, we feel the decision to stop selling GTA 5 is in line with the majority view of our customers." Target Australia posted on its Facebook page the news it was withdrawing the game and immediately received thousands of comments, many of them criticising the decision.’
‘If Cambodia, India, or Nigeria produced such a video game, there would be global outrage. It would serve as unequivocal evidence of their misogynistic cultures in which women and girls are systemically raped and murdered with impunity. We would critique the ways in which their cultures and values are organized around the normalization of gendered violence.’
Although there are a lot of games claiming they have a shocking level visual effect, publishers also usually use these elements to promote. Seriously, these works still need to be better. Some game designers are more focused on the reality of human suffering to expand the game, but missing the opportunity to create an amazing world as before.
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If certain types of game use a documentary form, I’m not sure if it will be interesting enough for some players. Will some interactivity be lost will it be less fun to play? Because history has been recorded, it can’t be changed. I searched for some documentary games. In `the Steam` it looks like a documentary / movie combination with little audience interaction.
I spent some time thinking, if I wanted to design the same type of game, then how would I give this game some different meaning? Maybe as a documentary it could be made more educational? If so, I think I can use the VR technology to allow players to, let’s say experience a period in history.
In fact, this concept has been mentioned in a children animation called 'Doraemon: Nobita and the birth of Japan'. This film talks about Nobita (main character) with his friend go back to Japan's creation for an adventure to learn about life 7000 years ago. This film was the highest grossing asian film (achieving ¥4.12 billion) with 4.2 billion people watching in fact the biggest in animation movie history.
According to the above data, we can understand why this popularity is very desirable to the film industry. Although we may experience beyond historical sense in this animation, I think the existence of the documentary is to give people a truth about something which is not always known .Whatever is done will be good if people get the truth and understand the history.

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