7. Look and Feel

This is a quick painting of the look and feel of the game, because it is about climate change the colours reflect bad weather, such as dark red, orange, yellow, black, grey and purple.

This is a possible background image, people associate lots of clouds with bad weather and the colours of these can be changed depending on what sort of weather it is.

The first of my initial posters for my game, this shows the first image and the 'chalky' text that looks quite effective.

Second image - with chalky effect text.

These images show the initial look and feel of my game, it will also have to look ‘professional’. I want to tie it into News channels and feeds, so I think it will have to look slightly similar to the news channels so that people will associate with it. I also want the game to represent new technology, so the look will also be smooth and sleek (almost inspired by some products designed by Jonathan Ive, because many people associate this style with innovation and new technology (Pragmatic Marketing, 2012)).

A screen shot from BBC news, showing the scrolling news feed like I intend to have in the game (BBC, 2007)

Another screen shot, this time from Sky news, to show another example of news text overlaid on a video (Sky News, 2011)

The two images above show the scrolling news feed that I want to have in the game. It will be overlaid at the bottom of the screen, like in the examples, but it will most likely resemble the BBC News 24 version, rather than the Sky 24 version because I like the more 'robust' look it has. However, the one from Sky is rather unobtrusive at the bottom of the screen and it might be less distracting to the player if I use one like this.

An example of an Oil style landscape painting, illustrating how my game could look in the disaster scenes (China Oil Painting Gallery, 2010) 

Another landscape oil painting, I think this one is too 'smooth' for the effect that I want though, because I want to illustrate bad weather and stormy skies (deshow.net, 2012)

A screenshot from the popular Facebook game, Mafia Wars. This illustrates how  people can collect money and have energy to do certain tasks (on the bar at the top) (Zynga, 2010)

A Female Scientist conducting an experiment, wearing a lab coat. (Micheljung, 2012)

An image taken from the Japanese news whilst the tsunami disaster was ongoing (ABC, 2011)

A whirlpool forming during the Japanese tsunami and earthquake (National Geographic, 2012)

Kilauea in Hawaii, an active volcano which has been in constant eruption since 1983 (ZME Science, 2011)

Emergency Services dealing with the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake in Turkey (UCN, 2011)

These images illustrate the devastating impact the natural disasters have, and I want this game to make people realise that it can happen to anybody, and it is everybody's concern - not just governments. It is also great how people get together and help each other out in these awful circumstances, and it just illustrates how good the human spirit is. The aim of this game is to give a message to people who play it, but also be fun to play at the same time.