Internet Mystery Game

Andy sent me this link via Moodle: Lost Experience

The crews really work in a big scale of project which involves audience, hope that I can experience playing it. After watching the video in the site, I don't think I have enough time to produce something like this. I rather stick to more basic idea of mine =(

Stressful

Pre-assessment on first day of May is coming and I can't think of any idea to 'boost' Andy's idea, I'm such a failure. I think I should work something linear first. Internet mystery game is beyond my ability already T_T

Story Board

I provided script below for visual aiding
Scene 1:
In a typical day, I fell asleep in front of my laptop because I had been working whole day since the day before and couldn't afford to find a chance to sleep.

Scene 2:
It had been a while that my monitor in screen saver mode. Suddenly... (The screen became white and shined upon the object in front which was me.)

Scene 3:
I disappeared from where I belonged to.

Scene 4:
After I gained my conscious, I found myself in another dimension. I tried to think hardly what was happening that moment but all I cannot think was who I was.

Scene 5:
I cried for being so helpless and hopefully there was someone who can help me to find my way back, because I knew, I wasn't belonged to this place. Meanwhile...

Echo: Please don't cry, actually you are being trapped in your cyberspace and has short-term memory lost. However, I will help you to find your memory back and get out of here, everything will be fine.

I stop crying after being comforted and get hold of myself. I must go on no matter how I frustrated I was.

Scene 6:
Suddenly, I saw a mystery folder with question mark appeared beside me.

When I opened it, a shining star flied out and said, "I will be at your side to guide you.

Scene 7:
I was so glad that I was not alone along the adventure it may be.

Idea Version 3

OK... After consulting Andy, I changed my idea again. It's not going to be like what I click is what I want. Somehow, I'm too focusing in visual rather than interactivity, sigh... This time, my character will search of her fragments of memory using the existing webtools like Blogger, YouTube, Wikipedia and etc in order to escape. There are 10 missions in the game and Cyber Gal has to answer 1 and another before proceeding to next stage. At the end of the game, Cyber Gal, which is me, is able to escape from the cyberspace where I am being sucked into. Each stage, there is a question concerning myself since I lost my memory. After I gained the answer from certain webtool, I have to key in the answer (password) and go to another stage, something like that...

Dilemma

During 2nd time of consultation with Andy, he gave me lots of ideas in creating Internet mystery game. Somehow the ideas he gave really inspired me to do another way of approach. If I really do this, I have to give up my initial intention which I want to improve my design sense. I'm in dilemma, should I changed my idea totally?

Layout Design

Managed to design this, it's quite simple. I use pink as my main colour for this project to show that she's delicate. Personally, I also like pink very much and I used to apply pink in most of my projects.

Layout Design Thumbs

Found some interesting layout design in Deviantart, which is quite similar to my art direction. My art direction is to have glassy feel in a 2D environment, since my character is already in 2D form. The glassy reflective effect will be applied on the logos. Somehow it's like my first idea, but it's not going to have so much graphics.

Art Direction 01

Art Direction 02

I downloaded some of the webstools' logos, wanting to apply them to my interface.

My sketch

Site Identity - Logo

This is a typical 'cyber life' for my character, the Cyber Gal. I will transform into my character once I enter cyberspace under certain circumstances. In this logo, I intend to make 'Cyber Gal' to have bigger font size and "A Day in My Life" smaller to show that the Cyber Gal is the main character of my work. She is also standing alongside with "L".

Sketch

Digital

Series of Cyber Gal

Wow! Can't believe that I am able to create a series of Cyber Gal within a designated period of time. At the same time, I searched quite a number of tutorials on how to create Manga character in DeviantArt using Adobe Illustrator, especially for line work. Actually, this is what I want to learn an extra skill for myself. I like this site a lot. The longer I stay in this site, the more I want to learn more, especially digital colouring for Manga character. Well, I don't think I have much time for now, it is going way too far for my project XD

Here are some of the tutorials I searched:
Chibi Girl Pencil Sketch
Illustrator Outline

Here goes my sketch as well as my Cyber Gal~

I use yellow and purple as both of them can complement with each other in colour wheel.

Character Design Drafts

Here, I sketched some character design in 2 forms, one is using simple line and stroke to construct, while for another one is drawn in human form. Notice that I use '@' to symbolize 'online' for both. The first one is easy but it's not what I want, just sketch for fun. I'm happened to draw helmet for my characters to wear on their heads. I like to draw something 'chibi', it's my style of drawing. So, my character for the project is going to be like Manga style, which I would like to learn. I'm going to search for tutorials on how to construct 'chibi' Manga character.

Idea Slightly Changed

It's not going to be educational anymore, instead, I will have categorize my online activities and create different chambers for my character to play around with, which is what I usually do online. For this idea, I have to design my character in different poses to represent the particular activity.

Here is the flowchart: