Creative Blog #4

Project Limitations

    So today, I used adobe's website again to get some creative exercises and try them out. The one I ended up picking was one where you give a project your working on limitations you normally wouldn't. If you remember back in week 2, I talked about a game I'm designing for my friends. In this game they are stuck on an island full of monsters, demons, aliens, etc., and have to find a girl who's stuck on the island. Normally, when I make games like this for them, I usually give them as long as they need to complete their objective. This is so they have all the time in the world to goof around and have funny moments like that one time where they all danced around the unconscious body of the final boss whilst singing California Girls by Katy Perry. This time however, I'm not giving them that luxury, they have a time limit of 1 in game week which rounds out to about 3 and a half hours. Now this may seem easy but when you consider all the stuff they have to do in that time frame, you start to see how painfully little time this is. This exercise taught me 2 things: 1. Deadlines suck and 2. Setting limitations like this really push you think of some creative means and work-arounds for said limitations. 

     Now to give a basic rundown, the group of four has to go to an island to save the wife of this really rich guy. They are told that, if they can retrieve her, they will get 25 million dollars each. But, they are not told that, the island is infested with all sorts of creatures, both supernatural and not. To make matters worse, the wife is being held hostage by a cat demon called "Cartoon Cat". Cartoon Cat has reality warping abilities but, thankfully, he's restricted to 1 place on the entire island, an old abandoned office building in the middle of the jungle. Because of this, they have to work together to take down monsters to get upgrades and special weapons to take it down. However, to make things more interesting, after 1 in-game week, if they haven't left the island, they will hunted down and killed by the alien hunter: Predator and his pet: Godzilla minus one (pre-nuclear exposure). 

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