MenuDesign

Menu design

I went with a building design with an animation of splatters of paint then the name of the game CAPTURE THE MONKEY.


Just made two buttons in the scene, the instruction button and the play button.






After pressing the play button, a story sequence will play before the actual game starts.
simple design just fade in fade out text about the story line.








Just for kicks i added a loading animation.

GAMEPLAY

With the gameplay i wanted to objects around the character to interact with the user when being rolled out and rolled over but there has to be a sequence to finish the game. you have to be near the monkey first before you can drag the banana and be near the cage to drag it.

Game development

so i remade my environment to make it more zoomed in. just added two buildings rather than having a bunch of em. Had to change the look of my monkey as well.

game games games

The concept i had for the first project i got the idea from playing GTA vice city, so it's just natural to say that when i was making the gameplay and feel for the game, i had vice city in mind as well.




































I play alot of RPG games and one of my most favorite games is final fantasy. i try to incorporate some kind of rpg strategic game play you need to play my game. like having to get something first before you can do another thing.

walkcycle

This is the development of my environment for the walkcycle.

Chatacter walking

i have this idea of my character running rather than walking. Maybe because he's running because of the apes or something. I've been making some rough animation on running. Its funny though because every 10 minutes or so i get up and try running. Making a fool out of myself but as troy said it really does help.

Character background

VINZ MANICINI

• Vinz Mancini, an Italian born on Feb12 2002.
  
• Son of Victor and Alessandra Mancini.
• Brother of Virna Mancini.
  

With the murder of Vinz Mancini's family by the mafia boss turned ape boss, Duilo Russo, Vinz want revenge. He was just a little boy at the age of 7 when he's family was killed. He's father was the right hand man of Duilo, climbing at the ranks in the world of the mob, thus he was betrayed by Duilo which led to the death of Vin's entire family.

Now that the world has changed, He is willing to take the risk of killing the leader of the apes. Though a dangerous mission, he also has the good intentions of saving the human race from the apes.

Sketches

Character design sketches.

a little background

The world was hit with a terrible virus where the truly evil people were turned into apes. Causing the ones left human to banish them out of their society, leaving the apes with so much hatred to their once human counterparts. Thus, they formed their own society where they destroyed cities and built there own. These apes then became a mob, with a hierarchy, where the old evil mafia/crime bosses were supreme. They kept up with their usual racketeering of alcohol, drugs and violence.

Due to their hatred to humans they kept looting their settlements and kept some humans as their slaves. In the human society, due to the continuous attacks of the apes, they created walls covering their settlements to keep them out. They too captured apes for their experiments on how to find a cure and stop the war.

Thus the world was divided by two races and the world is now at war.

Environment

We have the idea of two different environments, where the human side of the world is an enclosed settlement where they are covered by walls and fences to protect them from the apes.

Human environment














































































Ape Environment

The city the apes inhabit are modern day ruins. They run their cities to the ground.

Gangsters

I am a gangster buff.. so it was ideal for me to come up with the idea of gangsters. Though my first concept was rappers rule the world, me and my group mate Carrie thought it was more fitting to have a sophisticated kind of gangster, like the mafia. The mafia were also known as a mob who were into organised crime. Listed below are the people/movies/books who i have personally watched and read, and thought so fitting of the concept of our environment.

AL CAPONE -

Al Capone is America's best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city.

He's nickname is well known when it comes to the topic of organized crime. "Scarface" due to his infamous facial scars.


This next film is probably not the film you are thinking about, this is the original Scarface released in 1932 by Howard hawks.



Scarface is a potent, uncompromising portrait of the gangster life. While journalists often romanticized them, and many in the public made mobsters into folk heroes, director Howard Hawks' portrayal of the brutish and ambitious Capone-inspired titular character, played with terrific ferocity by Paul Muni (this movie made him a star, and it is easy to see why) is brutal and stark. The pre-noir gangster genre was in many ways defined by the innovative approaches taken by Hawks in Scarface. Tracking and dolly shots, relatively unknown at the time, contribute to the film's kinetic energy and excellent pacing. The expressionistic black-and-white cinematography by Lee Garmes is married to a screenplay (written by a team led by Ben Hecht) packed with symbolism as well as a rare combination of humor, sex, and violence. This extremely violent film (28 murders are recorded onscreen) also grafts a racy incest theme (Muni's character has Caligula-like feelings for his sister, played with remarkable sexual confidence by Ann Dvorak) onto the story line, resulting in considerable pressure from censors (the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America) coming to bear on the filmmakers (in this pre-Hays Production Code era). However, after considerable squabbling, producer Howard Hughes finally released Scarface in two formats: one with censor approval and one without, leading to confusion among Scarface audiences at the time. Ironically, though the movie indicts the violence of the mob figures it portrays, it became very popular largely because of this: in the end, the mobsters lead a very exciting lifestyle and seem to be having a lot of fun wreaking havoc on the world. And, of course, the movie is grand entertainment itself.

The more well known version, Scarface released on 1983 starring Al Pacino. A staple in gangster movies today.




Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, an exiled Cuban criminal who goes to work for Miami drug lord Robert Loggia. Montana rises to the top of Florida's crime chain, appropriating Loggia's cokehead mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer) in the process. Howard Hawks' "X Marks the Spot" motif in depicting the story line's many murders is dispensed with in the 1983 Scarface; instead, we are inundated with blood by the bucketful, especially in the now-infamous buzz saw scene.





My favorite of all the gangster movies/books is The Godfather, first published in 1969 by Mario Puzo, It formed the basis for a 1972 film of the same name. Two film sequels, including new contributions by Puzo himself, were made in 1974 and 1990. The first and second films are widely considered to be two of the greatest films of all time.

The plot deals with a gang war fought between the Corleone family and the other four of the five families of New York. After Don Vito Corleone is shot by men working for drug dealer Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, his two sons, Santino and Michael must run the family business with the help of consigliere Tom Hagen and the two Capos Peter Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio. When Sollozzo and an Irish police captain are murdered by Michael, the conflict escalates into a full scale war which results in Santino's death and Michael, despite his wishes, ascending to the head of the family. He slowly becomes more ruthless than his father, even killing his brother in law Carlo Rizzi, who played a part in Santino's murder. Also as the story progresses many of the minor characters, such as the Don's godson Johnny Fontane and his friend Nino Valenti, Sonny's former girlfriend Lucy Mancini, and Michael's bodyguard Al Neri, are expanded on and given their own subplots. Many of these subplots are not included in the movie. The novel culminates when Michael has his two main enemies, the novel's main antagonist, Emilio Barzini and a lesser but still severely important antagonist, Philip Tattaglia, assassinated. After the total elimination of the Tattaglia Family and Barzini Family, Michael sells all his business in New York and makes the Corleone Family a legitimate business in Las Vegas.

LUCKY LUCIANO -

was a Sicilian-born American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade. He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. Time magazine named Luciano among the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century. There were a lot of films based on the image of Lucky Luciano.

John Gotti -

(October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was the boss of the Gambino crime family after the murder of the previous boss Paul Castellano. He became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style that eventually caused his downfall.

In 1992, Gotti was convicted of racketeering, 13 murders, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit murder, illegal gambling, extortion, tax evasion, loansharking and was sentenced to life in prison where he died 10 years later.

He was known by the media as the "The Dapper Don" because he wore expensive clothes and "The Teflon Don" because the majority of attempts to convict him resulted in either a hung jury or an acquital - thus no criminal charge would "stick to him".

GOODFELLAS

Goodfellas (also spelled GoodFellas) is a 1990 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of three gangsters, spanning three decades.

Goodfellas is often considered one of the greatest films ever, both in the genre of crime and in general and was deemed "culturally significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress.

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references.

Directed in a highly stylized manner, Pulp Fiction joins the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase. Considerable screen time is devoted to conversations and monologues that reveal the characters' senses of humor and perspectives on life. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue.

GTA VICE CITY

The concept of gangster's and a city that is manipulated by money turn violent and chaotic, is what GTA vice city is all about. I got the idea of the world being ruled by gangsters mostly by playing games like this.

http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/

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Digital Alchemy

I got ideas from looking at www.worth1000.com that Joel told us about, especially the Modern Ruins page. Where there is alot of examples of the surreal. I tried to apply this to my concept.







First i had this idea of the city filled with animals. Just heaps of animals roaming the city.



It took alot of time, and my computer kept on crashing because of the hi-res images that i stacked up. So i started thinking of a new idea, I wanted to make it dark and full of contrast. I started looking for hi-res photos. I started out with these photos.










I made them all dark and highly contrasted. I used the billboard photo as an outline and made my own.




and final output is