Introduction

 

Hello and welcome to my blog that will document my journey through studying the MA Game Design course at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)

My name is John Padden and previously I had studied Illustration at UCLan attaining first class honours with a lot of my work developing answers to deep ethical questions within society through contextual outcomes and narrative storytelling to persuade an audience to want repeated viewings of my illustrations whether they be on products, advertisements, within editorial pieces or the pages of published books to garner more differing experiences each time they were viewed – you never got the full experience from the first viewing.  One example of this was a t-shirt design for a brief from TeePost, a movement that used illustrators to create designs based on newspaper articles with the actual article being printed on the inside of the t-shirt the illustration was produced on.  I wanted to go against this method and illustrate how newspapers and the media in general manipulate our view especially in the realm of politics with different newspapers holding bias towards political parties.

The illustration incorporated two designs of Boris Johnson, one happy made up of positive news articles and printed of him in red the other angry made up of negative articles printed in cyan, the t-shirt would then come with a pair of 3d glasses where you could only properly see either image of Boris by either looking through one lens or the other thus having our view needing to be manipulated by the newsprints to get the picture they wanted you to see.

Looking into how I would transition from Illustration to games design would be to look into character creation and concept art as well as narrative storytelling to create a world that draws the audience in to multiple playthroughs.