Narrative, Design, and Modelling of a Game with High-Fidelity Graphics

• Autor(a) principal: Garcia, João Miguel Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/12518
• topic: Design de Jogos; Esquizofrenia; Gráficos de Alta Fidelidade; Horror Psicológico; Victims of Dead Stories; Video Jogo; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes::Jogos Digitais

Victims of Dead Stories is a single-player, first-person game in a 3D environment with graphicsthattrytoassimilatereality,thattakesadvantageofthecharacteristicsofschizophrenia to develop the story of the main character and the drastic changes that the playable environments will undergo. Thus being a psychological horror game with a great visual focus to tell the narrative through interactions and events. This game would start by introducing the main character to a relatively familiar environment to the player. A house where is divided into three playable sections, the hallway, the living room and lastly, the staircase. Each section will play a significant role in the player’s progression. While the hallway is where the most physical changes to the player’s surroundings will occur, the living room will serve as a progression of the story and the events that occur there. However, it is in the staircase that the main point of this project, the creation of loops, will be discovered. Wheneverthemaincharacterpassesthroughthe last door of the staircase, he will find himself in the starting position of the game. Even so, the environment that surrounds him will change, especially on a visual level. The objective of Victims of Dead Stories is to advance through eleven loops, where the visuals of the environments will be progressively more macabre, starting with an ordinary house, until finally the walls are covered in blood, having visual clues about the narrative that are scattered around the map. This report about Victims of Dead Stories consists of the description of the visual graphic elements, having as a main focus the creation of realistic 3D models and textures, resorting to the use of 3D modelling software- Blender-, image editing software- Photoshop-, and texture creation and editing software- Substance Pantier-. This creation of realistic 3Dmodels and textures aims to increase the player’s immersion in the playable environment. Afterthisinitial description, the developmentprocedurewillbeapproached, showing the final visual result of Victims of Dead Stories. The characteristics that determine what schizophrenia is and which ones were chosen to be implemented in Victims of Dead Stories will also be addressed.