Oliver Scott

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Oliver Scott

• Games Design Level 2

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Introduction

• I take an interest in the art, visual side of
  games and interactive multimedia. I try to
  reflect this in the work I produce.
• Currently working on two major projects
• Games Design 2 A group project based on Disney
• Aspects of Play Platform game in a retro style

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Games Design 2

• Group Project set by an external client.
• Made in flash
• Top down racing game using Disney characters and
  environments
• Big multiplayer focus
• Level design and UI

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Aspects of Play

• Side scrolling 2D Platformer
• Made in Director
• New style of play with the swinging ability
• Very stylised imagery
• Draws on my strengths and influences heavily

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Influences Pt.1

• Retro platform games (Sonic and Mario)
• Kids games
• Cartoon and Comic culture (Invader Zim, Tank
  Girl)
• Online flash animation community

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Influences Pt.2

• Piet Mondrian Bright colours and uniform lines
• Andy Warhol Screenprinting technique
• Damien Hirst Again, bright colours but in a
  rather erratic sense
• Julian Opie Mixing simple caricatures and bold
  colours

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Text 1

• Mirror Mirror
• All the conversation about photorealistic
  graphics and the immersive qualities of such a
  thing seems to miss one point. We already have a
  perfect, real time, interactive, 3D
  representation of the world presented on a 2D
  surface. Its called a mirror.
• - Quote taken from www.buzzcut.com a website on
  Critical Videogame Theory.

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Text 2

• (On the Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker)
• Many feel that the cel-shading gave Wind Waker a
  cartoon-like or childish look. One fan writes
  of encounting the new aesthetic for the first
  time, I felt as though something had been stolen
  from me Other forum users remark, in comments
  that mirror thousands by like-minded gamers, The
  graphics ruined the game and Wind Waker
  destroyed everything Zelda stood for
• - Quote taken from www.slashdot.org a gaming
  website.

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Conclusion

• Stand up for less serious visual approaches
• Take influences from everywhere but generally
  quite specific areas
• Believe that a childish appearance can be for a
  mature audience also
• Ultimately who needs realism, real-life
  simulators when you can give people something
  theyve never seen before.