Weapons Of Mass Education

Stairway To Heaven

clifford2008headshot — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0000

Sorry for the long delay in updates, we were quite busy with oder projects. But now we’re back with a vengance! Our Project is almost done, just finishing touches on the presentation and booklet remain.

Here are some of our characters:
Vendor Nasim
Guard Richie
Angry Fat Bobby
Eddy

Costs and Game Engine

clifford2008headshot — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:56:51 +0000

There are two programs we will have to buy:
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
€ 1.498,80 alternatively Gimp 2.6 would be free.
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
€ 1.677,60
Every other task can be accomplished with a freeware program.

Our development phase will take us approximately half a year.

The jobs are divided up as follows:
Clifford: storyboard, gameplay, character design
Jakob: storyboard, gameplay
Michael: leveldesign, charakterdesign, graphic design
Julius: programming/implementation, gameplay

Storyboard:
3 months – 66 working days á 8h:
528 h * 25 = 13.500€

Leveldesign:
1 month – 22 working days á 8h
176 h * 30 = 5.300€

Character Design:
2,5 months – 55 working days á 8h
440 h * 30 = 13.200€

Graphic Design:
4 months – flat rate
8.000€

Gameplay/Playability:
1 month – 22 working days á 8h
176 h * 20 = 3.520€

Programming/Implementation:
2 months – 50 working days á 8h
400 h * 25 = 10.000€

Four laptops mac: á 1800€ + LED displays á 850€ –> 10.600€
Office: 90m² ca. 500€ for 6 months –> 3.000€

Total: 70295 EUR

Intro Storyboard

clifford2008headshot — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:14:38 +0000

Check it out!
Intro Storyboard
Btw: If you can’t read the captions of the storyboard images, you can find the story here.

Eddy, our first angry Englishman

clifford2008headshot — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:30:03 +0000

Let me introduce you to Eddy, our first angry Englishman. He’s the owner of a Gym and he sure has a temper! Boy oh boy!

‘angry english men’ & ‘HalfLife2′ analysis

michael2008headshot — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:02:40 +0000

gameflow evaluation wome

gameflow evaluation HL

prototype

michael2008headshot — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:46:25 +0000

Hey … say hello to our newest, (for the present) nameless buddy! He’s looking forward to get some colours …

Storyboard drafts

michael2008headshot — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:04:20 +0000

Thinking about our games look, we decided to work in a sketchy and handdrawn style. Colour is only used for points of interest.

Our first drafts look like this:

First Level, A Story Draft

clifford2008headshot — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:55:06 +0000

We’ve just developed the first scene for our game.
Oh, the following is subject to change, but it’s a start!
Beginning with a short intro, showing a little guy, Tommy, sitting in the classroom and having his English class. Because his teacher is so darn boring, he starts drawing little sketches on his textbook, and as he gets more and more tired, he falls asleep.

Shortly afterward he wakes up and asks his teacher, Mrs. Buröll, if he can go to the toilet. She nods and Tommy walks out. The next thing you see, is Tommy sitting on the Toilet and as he pulls the lever, he gets sucked down into the toilet.

Next scene is a room very similar to the previous. Just one door is open and you don’t hear anything. But suddently the Toilet starts shaking and with a huge burst of water, Tommy is shot out of the toilet and lands with his face on the ceiling – and then, as the water burst falls off, he lands on the ground.

Not knowing where he is, Tommy is approaced by an angry, slightly obese person. The person is talking in English (from this moment on, almost everything in the game is in English). With nervous gestures, the man tells Tommy to grab the mop in the corner and mop up the puddle the toilet incident left behind.
This is the Tutorial of our game. It is planned to have a screen display the major controls of the game just as Tommy meets the man.

After Tommy mopped up the puddle, the man grabs Tommy by the scruff of the neck and Throws him out of the door.
The door unleashes the next chain of unfortunate events: As it rapidly opens, it slams directly in the face of a fat working-class englishman – wo drops all his candy and snacks on the floor (Begin of the first real level of our game, “Food” – Unit 2 in the textbook we’re working with)

The man is observably upset that all of his candy fell to the floor and he starts yelling at Tommy. And then, he sends tommy to bring him some items from the nearest store -> A minigame begins, in which Tommy has to put the right kind and the right amount of food in his Bag.

Alright – that’s enought story for now, we’ll be working on storyboards soon. A Gameplay detail we’ve decided upon (since our game relies heavily on the use of language – both German and English) The game will be entirely in English, with one exception: If Tommy keeps failing his task, he starts an inner monologue in german, to help the player with the task.

That’s it for now. Stay tuned.

facts

michael2008headshot — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:33:39 +0000

company name:

WOME – weapons of mass education

working title:

“angry english men”

target audience:

students, boys/ girls , 10-12

genre:

adventure + minigames

platform:

personal computer

Elevator Pitch 2.0

clifford2008headshot — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:37:24 +0000

without knowing where he is or how he got there, little tommy awakes in the unfriendly england. searching for his way home he depends on his communication with cranky englishmen. to be supported by them, he has to accomplish several minigames, teaching him about the english language and culture. if tommy fails the communication with the angry englishmen, they get visually and acoustically angrier. to avoid a fight, tommy relies on jokes or his incredible ability to make faces. (as a reaction game, for example)