Greg Pidgeon
Sunday, January 30, 2005
The News, Old Skool Stylee
For another studio mini assignment we were asked to get a news article pre 1984. Whatever for I hear you ask, to make into a game of course.
My article was some rubbish about a political scandal that wasn’t particularly interesting and not suitable for this exercise. But I teamed up with Paul, who had a whipper of a story entitled “West End Opium Orgy”!
Dated 12/12/1918, it involved Lo Ping You who was sentenced to 5 months hard labour for supplying opium to Billie Carleton, an actress and also the host of an opium fuelled orgy that lasted a whooping 18 hours. She unfortunately was found dead in her flat the next day.
We decided to create a ‘The Getaway’/‘Grand Theft Auto’ style game. Firstly we got a map of Dover Street (the scene of the crime according to the article from multi-map and researched Billie Carleton on the National Portrait Gallery Site which also talks of her drug-related untimely demise. The players character in the game would be a ‘Joseph Graves’ who you would navigate around Dover street in London interacting with the characters from the article in order to complete the mission of setting up the deal then in a later level breaking out your dealer aka Lo Ping You from the pen.
Below are the original brainstorms and ideas along with the screenshot we designed for the game……
My article was some rubbish about a political scandal that wasn’t particularly interesting and not suitable for this exercise. But I teamed up with Paul, who had a whipper of a story entitled “West End Opium Orgy”!
Dated 12/12/1918, it involved Lo Ping You who was sentenced to 5 months hard labour for supplying opium to Billie Carleton, an actress and also the host of an opium fuelled orgy that lasted a whooping 18 hours. She unfortunately was found dead in her flat the next day.
We decided to create a ‘The Getaway’/‘Grand Theft Auto’ style game. Firstly we got a map of Dover Street (the scene of the crime according to the article from multi-map and researched Billie Carleton on the National Portrait Gallery Site which also talks of her drug-related untimely demise. The players character in the game would be a ‘Joseph Graves’ who you would navigate around Dover street in London interacting with the characters from the article in order to complete the mission of setting up the deal then in a later level breaking out your dealer aka Lo Ping You from the pen.
Below are the original brainstorms and ideas along with the screenshot we designed for the game……
:: posted by Greg Pidgeon, 10:30 pm
