Ashes to Ashes.....

Well the new year has brought us a new term and new challenges.  For the rest of the year we are to take everything we have learnt so far and produce a game from concept start to beta test level.

The class have been split into teams of 4 or 5 people to form individual "game studios" for the duration of the year.  We knew this was going to happen beforehand and for some bizarre reason, I was slightly apprehensive about this....(weirdo) Had no need to be though, ended up with great guys in my team.

So we don't all drift off into obscurity, the teams have been given words / concepts as starting points and we have been assigned AFTERLIFE.  I think this is a pretty awesome starting and it conjures up so many thoughts and ideas, in fact within minutes of firing up the Google I had the a full page of ideas to go and investigate further.  I'll bring these to our next meeting and hopefully brainstorm these ideas around with the other guys thoughts...


 



We also had to come up a name for our studio and create an appropriate logo for the company.

After throwing loads of ideas around and putting all our name into anagram creators and all that kind of behaviour, we finally settle on the name STALEMATE STUDIOS.  Not only does immediately conjure up images of chess, it in itself a game, but always concepts like conflict, catch 22, no win situation and most importantly deadlock.... dead.... death.... afterlife.... Ta Dah !!! Studio name agreed. Harry immediately started scribbling down some logo ideas so hopefully this should bring back some interesting results.

I'm really looking forward to seeing where our game ideas are going to take us over the next 28 weeks...  Bring it on !!!!