unit 70

what is a game engine? what are they used for?

a game engine is the basic software framework.
it is designed for the creation of video games,developers use engine's to create environments for games on console, mobile apps and personal computers, the engine in bacis is used to create in most cases a 3D environment with coded script and created model's.  
Some game engines only provide real-time 3D rendering capabilities instead of the wide range of functionality needed by games. every game engine has a physics system and a rendering system.

1) fallout 3
the engine used for fallout 3 was the Gamebryo engine 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gik-jDVRDSg

2) metal arms: glitch in the system
glitch in the system used 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtqQjuyXw-0

3) crash bandicoot
crash bandicoot used  as its game engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWyuN1i0zsE

4) republic commando
republic commando used unreal engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskLCDYn0ZU

5)  SWTOR
SWTOR uses the hero engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9CChngwe0Q

6) oblivion
oblivion uses Gamebryo engine same as fallout 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYd0HZepdC0

7) fallout new vegas
fallout nv uses the Gamebryo engine 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq9TnI7ssTU

8) skyrim
skyrim uses Creation Engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COh-DVxqI9g

9) jak 2
jak 2 used the Kinetica engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RmsZ9vq-fM

10) pokemon (ALL OF IT)
Pokemon used Heavily modified Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6O-R0JdvF4

what is a physics engine?

A physics engine is computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics, soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film. 

a example of  a physics engine would be physics X.

what is a rendering engine?

 Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model, by means of computer programs. A scene file contains objects in a strictly defined language or data structure; it would contain geometry, viewpoint, texture, lighting, and shading information as a description of the virtual scene. The data contained in the scene file is then passed to a rendering program to be processed and output to a digital image or raster graphics image file.

a example of a rendering engine would be  unreal and other engines like it.

the game  i will be creating sound for will be my plat former.

the game is a sifi game based in climbing platforms to reach a boss to then kill and progress to the next level, the player uses guns to kill.
blaster sounds
this will be made by sounds i personally make myself, this sound will then be edited and changed to suit its purpose more.
jumping 
this will be a sound i collect from a source on the internet because there will be a better sound out there.
background
the background will consist of scratching ,howling and a sifi like memo to it.
dieing
this will be a thud and a breath in fast this this will be set out of you gasp and then you hit the floor.
step sound:this will be real steps made heavy to show the character is heavy footed also to add a little more of a creepy vibe.
entering the ship:on entry of the ship you will hear a short demonic laugh and the thud of a mettle door closing with a heavy crash and a sudden inhale.
this will; be used to give the play the feeling they are trapped and to regret their decision of entering, this will need a medium sound capture rate because its meant to be done over time for a entrance, this will require maybe for creation 8GB of ram for this simple entrance,

all of the sound's will be done in mp3 because this will be designed for a mobile device or a small indie game for pc, some of the sounds like the exhaling and humming will need a studio or a very quiet area to record and pick up the sound,the other sounds may be taken and edited or will be able to be louder then background noise.

Evaluation.

below are snapshots of my creation of my sounds in my game some are taken then edited then used in my game but all were composed (selected and joined) by me and edited.

To evaluate my sounds I believe all my sounds work well for my game and they are set out to join with the sound the gun sounding like a electrical pulse when shooting and the jump works in a way to more sound they are jumping of an odd surface, this continues to the first theme background making the player want to rush the mission and then the second more to relax the player in the second room to get them ready for the last room (this was never created) the death sound was a edit is distortion and echo on a wabafet and the machine was a talk with someone I know edited to a point that is sounds to me like a shutdown.

The total evacuation to me is that the sounds work to me perfectly with the game to the point could get them for my game.

With the evaluation on my personal work I used a stereo Dictaphone to capture and recorded the sounds and later edited. In future I believe I would prefer to use an iPhone voice recorder because I find its much better quality in its tech compared to what I used. 

2d game cards

the game would be made for a mobile device, mostly for something like a iPhone 6 because it in my opinion is too simple for the pc to have the game is simply two button that are easily used on a mobile device and would most likely be more interesting on a mobile device rather them a pc.

i would make the sprites all 32 pixel to make it easier to run on the phone and then i would correct the resolution to fit the size of the iPhone screen and the sprite sized and button collision would be warped around the object its self.

the iPhone 6 has a 4.7-inch (diagonal) HD display and  Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology also 1334x750-pixel resolution, this means i have a fairly large resolution for the game and the multi touch disply will be used to make the buttons selectable. 

above is the game on a mobile decide in the iPhone 6 the stick and twist are touch sensitive and you choice what one to click using the touch sensitive function on the iPhone, each sprite was edited ti size because if the screen size and the help of the device setting on game maker.

The phone mode version of this game is edited by adding a script in that tells the game the button location's this makes it so the phone will know where the stick and twist and escape button are and this would make it viable for the app form on the iPhone.

In the conversion from pc to phone we have had to scale down the sprites to fit the screen and also got the sprites in the correct location for the phone.

the mobile gaming platform is designed around apps , games that are fairly basic and mostly in 2D some in basic 3d modles in the game.most games on this platform are rts games simple swipe games.

the games on this platform are designed for small screens to make it easier to play on this device and then the graphic quality is set to be fit for each mobile device to run fine with minimal lag.

Retina HD display

4.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit widescreen Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology

1334x750-pixel resolution at 326 ppi

1400:1 contrast ratio (typical)

5.5″

Retina HD display

Retina HD display

5.5-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit widescreen Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology

1920x1080-pixel resolution at 401 ppi

1300:1 contrast ratio (typical)

Both models:

500 cd/m2 max brightness (typical)

Full sRGB standard

Dual-domain pixels for wide-angle viewing

Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on front

Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Display Zoom

Reachability

This is the spec for the iPhone 6 showing the exact resolution on the phone that I would be working with for the conversion on this game and such, this is the reason why I had to scale down my sprites and relocate them for the game in the end with the creation.

above is the game shown on a pc moniter you would use the mouse to select your stick or twist and hit escape to excit out of the screen, like the the phone version you have each of the gray ai players and you as a yellow figure between the stick and twist

on the pc platform you get , fps,rts,mobas and all types , theses will run on what you have installed on your computer if you have a well fitted computer with something like ,CPU – Intel Core i7-4790K,Motherboard – MSI Z97 Gaming 7,Memory – 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3 Low Profile 1.5v MemoryVideo,Card – MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4GBoot, Drive – Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSDStorage, Drive – Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200RPM Hard DriveOptical, Drive – OEM DVD Drive or OEM Blu Ray Drive (Any Manufacturer),PSU – Antec EA-650 Platinum,Case – Corsair Obsidian 750DCPU ,Cooler –

 Corsair Hydro Series H100i, Operating System – Windows 7 64 bit or Windows 8.1 64 bit this would be a high end computer that could basicly run any game on the market to date.

the pc's build will be the decideing point on how games run on it, but in the terms of this basic black jack game this would run well due to its lack of graphic quality needed and since it’s in 2D there is no 3D rendering required in the game meaning once again it will run fairly fast on this platform.

With this spec, you could play games like planetside 2 or planetary annulation with minimal lag and you could play on high graphic settings so you are playing an amazing looking game and playing it well.

For this I have used a game creator called ‘Game maker studio’ and in its set up with programming you can design it in drag and drop or you can type the code up on a coding setting, with this you create the sprites convert them to objects and then you can code them to do their jobs in the game, and you can make script to create a randomizer or a set up and ai code like we have for this card game above.

This is the set up and code in the game maker studio used in the game above and its showing the ai code, randomiser for the deck and the set up code.

This is an example of what you can do on this game software and it’s a well working software, you can also use this to animate your sprites and create them from scratch this is all on this software and you can easily access and use all of this to your advantage and for the creation of your games, or you can import from other software’s like images from Photoshop or fireworks this could come in handy in the creation.

music for platformer.
for the platformer is would be a 2d retro game in style , this would be based on the main charecter trying to reclaim his ship but every-time he dies a new crew member will have to take be hired to collect gold and try and survive in the ship as long as possible , the gold can be spent on a building outside the ship , all gold /coins are lost at the re-entry.the ship is cured and will trap you inside on entry, once you die the spirit hires a new worker to take the ship.


entering the ship:on entry of the ship you will hear a short demonic laugh and the thud of a mettle door closing with a heavy crash and a sudden inhale.
this will; be used to give the play the feeling they are trapped and to regret their decision of entering, this will need a medium sound capture rate because its meant to be done over time for a entrance, this will require maybe for creation 8GB of ram for this simple entrance,

upgrading the building:the sound for this will be the sound of dropping multiple coin's on the floor and then a sigh at the end of it to show your character doesn't even want to give up the money.

weapon/gun attacking sound: this will be man made sounds from live recording,this will then be edited on a recording soft were to make it unrecognisable as a sound made by someone.

fists sound:this will be a sound of someone making a sound as they punch to symbolising punching.

step sound:this will be real steps made heavy to show the character is heavy footed also to add a little more of a creepy vibe.

sword sound:this will be a sound created by swinging bamboo in-front of a mic for a quick swinging action and for contact sharpening a knife.

death sound:the death tune will be made by a thud maybe by leather making contact with a hard surface and that would make the feeling of hitting the floor more hight then a slow exhale would be used to make his/her last breath.

background music: i want the background to be based on a si-fi theme and for it to be linked to how the ship is layed out but maybe have have a feeling of tense-tune with sudden bursts of speed in the music to maybe make the player believe they could be followed or that they need to run.as the track plays i will add slight humming to make it seem there could be others there but you will never see who is humming,

outside background music:with this i want a western atmosphere to it so that the player can feel cosy  and a little lonely knowing they are the only hero there to do anything, this atmosphere would change is outside too long where it would become dark and the music would come out and become more spooky and horrifying  to make you want to move on.



all of the sound's will be done in mp3 because this will be designed for a mobile device or a small indie game for pc, some of the sounds like the exhaling and humming will need a studio or a very quiet area to record and pick up the sound,the other sounds may be taken and edited or will be able to be louder then background noise.

How will you monitor what you have recorded?i will monitor the is by firstly test recording the product see the levels then do the real recording and and then place  in in a file and give it a unique name. vu meter ,replay,time,audio log sheet

How will you monitor recording levels?

sound requirements for real use.
bamboo(or a long hollow wooden stick rounded)- to creat a good swinging sound for the swinging of the sword.

the use of a studio or quiet room- this will be for the voices and the entrance inhale and death exhale.

BTEC National Diploma


Unit number and title Unit 20: Computer Game Platforms and Technologies.


Task 1)

Consider these factors :-


Graphics capabilities


Size (and portability)


Processor power


Memory size


Storage size


Games available for platform (ie how many)


Series (is this platform the latest in a series and what where they are show them and describe them as


well, if they are used)


Give examples of each one and what if anything is unique about them. What limitation does this platform


have? (limited games or audience size or pricing)


Compare them to each other as well. As in rate them (in your view) and put them in order of least


favourite to most favourite and why.



play station series


Ps1: the ps1 was the first of the play station console series, it was released on December 3,1994 , It has included successor consoles and upgrades including the net yaroze. this console sold 102.49 million units including the 28.15 million amount psone. the ps1 sold for £299 per unit.

this console was fairly small and needed a constant power supply to work so for portability you could only move it from house to house no more. the cpu used in the play station was the R3000A 32bit RISC chip @ 33.7 MHz ,The R3000 is a full 32 bit RISC microprocessor chip set developed by MIPS Computer Systems that implemented the MIPS I instruction set architecture (ISA). Introduced in June 1988, it was the second MIPS implementation, succeeding the R2000 as the flagship MIPS microprocessor. It operated at 20, 25 and 33.33 MHz.


The MIPS 1 instruction set is very small compared to the instruction sets of other microprocessors, such as the contemporary 80x86, 680x0 architectures), as it includes only most commonly used instructions and supports very limited number of addressing modes. The small number of CPU instructions, as well as other instruction set features—fixed instruction length and only three different types of instruction formats—greatly simplify instruction decoding and processing. To speed up processing even further the CPU employs a 5-stage instruction pipeline. The pipeline design allows the R3000 CPU to execute most instructions at a rate close to 1 instruction per cycle.


the GPU could handle up to16.47 million colors


Resolution: 256x224 - 640x480 Sprite/BG drawing Adjustable frame buffer No line restriction, 4,000 8x8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotation Simultaneous backgrounds (Parallax scrolling) 620,000 polygons/sec


the memory for these consoles were stored on detached memory cards that could store up to 1mb minimum could be held on a basic memory card.


the games for the playstation in total i believe to be over the hundreds, some of these games being ,


A Bug's Life (video game),Alien Trilogy and arc of time, they are only three games that were available on the ps1 console. a limitation of the ps1 would be how it's controller was needed to be wired and its change from no joy sticks to 2 joysticks and then the wires becoming stiff and shortening the distance.


the media device was CD-ROM-based media for the ps1


system software:proprietary OS






ps2:

the play station 2 like the ps1 used memory cards to store game data but with the ps2 it could store 8mb minimum for the cards.this console sold for £299 per unit like the ps1 but this was able to hold more data the the last console.a limatation i would say with this would be the controlers wire again and then the memory cards could hold a decent amount of data but they were filled fast so you would have to pay out more for more memory cards.

155 million units (as of December 28, 2012) were sold of this console this was a increase of 53 million units in comparison showing the fan base grew over time.

the media form used for the ps2 was a DVD-ROM/CD-ROM.

the cpu used was a 300 MHz MIPS "Emotion Engine",The Emotion Engine was a CPU developed and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba for use in the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console. It was also used in early PlayStation 3 models sold in Japan and North America,For comparison, 128-bit wide registers and SIMD instructions had been present in the 32-bit x86 architecture since 1999, with the introduction of SSE.

GPU:147 MHz "Graphics Synthesizer"; fill rate 2.352 gigapixel/sec; 1.1 gigapixel w. 1 texture(diffuse); 588 megapixel/sec w. 2 textures (2 diffuse maps or 1 diffuse map and 1 other(0 around 74 mill, 1 around 40 mill, 2 around 20 mill); 2 textures per pass


Capable of multi-pass rendering;


Connected to VU1 on CPU (a vector only for visual style coding things with 3.2Gflops) to deliver enhanced shader graphics and other enhanced graphics.


system softwear;proprietary OS, Linux DVD Playback Kit


amount of games released for the ps2:as of March 2014 accounted a total of 3874 released games






ps3:

the play station 3 had a inbuilt harddrive to hold memory replaceing the old memory cards with a area that could store more then the old consoles , this lead to a price increase makeing it £425 per unit,in its time it sold 84 million units this is a decrease of 71 million units thothe amount per unit may have just got them the same amount as the ps2 sales.this consol was the first of the ps consoles with wire less online connection.




the media player used was a BD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, SACD

Cpu: Cell Broadband Engine,The first-generation Cell Broadband Engine processor is a multi-core chip comprised of a 64-bit Power Architecture processor core and eight synergistic processor cores, capable of massive floating point processing.




GPU:550 MHz RSX "Reality Synthesizer" this was based on the Nvidia G70 architecture.

system software: XrossMediaBar (XMB)

amount of games released for console:There are currently 812 games (multi-platform: 644; exclusive: 150; console exclusive: 11)







ps4:

the playstation 4 uses a built in hardrive to store data for games and is connected to the internet for software updates and online use this is the second ps with online capability's wire less, the cost of this per unit was £349 and they have so far soled 20.2 million units this so far is a poor turn out for the play station consoles.

for media they used:Blu-ray, DVD Blu-ray 6x CAV, DVD 8x CAV

CPU:8-Core AMD "Jaguar

GPU:Custom AMD Radeon 18 Compute Units (1152 shaders) @ 800 MHz

software used:Orbis OS

amount of games released for console:There are currently 449 games on this list (33 of which have been confirmed as free-to-play).Exclusive = 43 ,Sony Exclusive = 46, Console exclusive and/or timed = 94/4,Multiplatform/or Unknown = 233/1, Playable = 178 available to purchase



each of the play station systems use the duel shock controllers from duelshock to the wireless duelshock 4, this has been getting more advanced little by little to fit with the games available for the console.

xbox series




xbox(original):the xbox original was made to for what i believe to compeat with the playstation console.released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market.

a issue to this console i found id that the console its self would be prone to scratching you disk and the disk reader would brake after a few years.

the price of the console was matched to the ps1 and ps2 being £299 per unit in total they sold 24+ million units, in comparison to the ps1 this was nothing in sales.the xbox had a total of 999 titals made in total for it.




the media functions were only cd and dvd readers in this console

cpu: 733 MHz x86 Intel Celeron/Pentium III Custom Hybrid CPU

gpu: 233 MHz nVidia custom GeForce 3 NV2A DirectX 8.0 based GPU

memory:64 MB DDR SDRAM @ 200 MHz; in dual-channel 128-bit configuration giving 6400 MB/s

video:VGA, Component (YPbPr), SCART, S-Video, Composite, 1080i, 720p, 576p, 576i, 480p, 480i

system software: Xbox Music Mixer DVD Playback Kit, Xbox Linux





xbox 360: the successor of the original Xbox in November 2005, competing with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. As of June 30, 2013, 78.2 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide.each unit sold for £266.78 this price is a general idea from it being converted from us dollar.There are currently 1,137 games (multiplatform: 936; exclusive: 187; console exclusive: 74) on this list as of March 3rd , 2015.

the issue witht he xbox 360 is the original sold consoles had a solvent then would melt away and the coolant fans would move and the console would over heat this was later fixed.

media:CD, DVD, HD DVD (movies only)

CPU:3.2 GHz IBM PowerPC tri-core CPU codenamed "Xenon"
GPU:500 MHz ATi custom Radeon X1800 DirectX 9.0c based GPU codenamed "Xenos"

video:HDMI (on models manufactured after August 2007), VGA, Component/D-Terminal (YPbPr), SCART, S-Video, Composite, 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 576p, 576i, 480p, 480i


Various monitor resolutions available via VGA and HDMI/DVI (640×480, 848×480, 1024×768, 1280×720, 1280×768, 1280×1024, 1360×768, 1440×900, 1680×1050 & 1920×1080)


system software:It resides on a 16 MB file system and has access to a maximum of 32 MB of the system's memory. The updates can be downloaded from the Xbox Live service directly to the Xbox 360 and subsequently installed. Microsoft has also provided the ability to download system software updates from their respective official Xbox website to their PCs and then storage media, from which the update can be installed to the system.







xbox one:the xbox one was released on November 22, 2013 in North America, as the successor of the Xbox 360. The Xbox One competes with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles.this unit as so far sold 3 million units as of jan 6th 2014 each for the price of £429, so far the only problem i see with the xbox one is the connects responce time and how much internet it takes on low priority. total games made and announced so far for xbox one, Exclusive = 39, Microsoft exclusive = 15,Console exclusive or timed = 29/8,Multiplatform/TBA = 252/5,Playable = 171 available to purchase, Total = 348

media usable on the xbox one:CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, USB Drive with supported media, DLNA Servers

CPU:1.75 GHz AMD x86-64 eight-core CPU codenamed "Jaguar"
GPU:853 MHz AMD Radeon HD 7000 series DirectX 11.1 based GPU codenamed "Durango"

Viedo:HDMI (one in, one out)4K 2160p, 1080p, 1080i, 720p

memory:8 GB of DDR3 RAM @ 2133 MHz 68.3 GB/s, 32 MB ESRAM GPU frame buffer memory

System software:Xbox OS, Windows 8, Windows 10(future)


all the xbox use the same style controller its a thick hand held that doesn't fit all hands it can be hard to used , the xbox ones controller was less thick compared to its older forms but it is still thick in all terms i personally prefer the ps controllers.

nintendo


wii: The Wii Remote is the primary controller for the console. It uses a combination of built-in accelerometers and infrared detection to sense its position in 3D space when pointed at the LEDs in the Sensor Bar.the wii was the first console focused on the sencers rather then buttons on a remote this was a huge thing for sometime but over time this hype died with the issuse of responce time and the shaking.1359 games have been made total.

memory:The Wii console contains 512 megabytes of internal flash memory, and features an SD card slot for external storage. An SD card can be used for uploading photos and backing up saved game data and downloaded Virtual Console and WiiWare games.


CPU: PowerPC-based Broadway processor, made with a 90 nm SOI CMOS process, reportedly clocked at 729 MHz

GPU: ATI Hollywood GPU made with a 90 nm CMOS process,[113] reportedly† clocked at 243 MHz

viedo:

Custom "AV Multi Out" port supporting composite video, YPBPR component video, S-Video (NTSC consoles only) and RGB SCART (PAL consoles only)480p, 480i or 576i, standard 4:3 and 16:9anamorphic widescreen


wii u

The Wii U GamePad is the console's primary controller: its main feature is a built-in 6.2 inch (15.7 cm) resistive touchscreen, which can be used as a companion to games being played on a television, or as a means of playing games on the GamePad itself without a television.

Media:A single self-loading media bay plays 12-centimeter proprietary high-density optical discs that can hold 25GB of data for the new console with a transfer speed of 22.5 MB/s. It also reads 12-centimeter Wii optical discs.

Video Output: Supports 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i. Compatible cables include HDMI, Wii D-Terminal, Wii Component Video, Wii RGB, Wii S-Video Stereo AV and Wii AV.

Audio Output: Uses AV Multi Out connector. Six-channel PCM linear output through HDMI.

Storage: The console has internal flash memory, as well as the option to expand its memory using either an SD/SDHC memory card (up to 32GB) or an external USB hard disk drive (up to 2TB).

CPU: IBM Power®-based multi-core microprocessor.

GPU: AMD Radeon™-based High Definition GPU.



3ds

the 3ds was released in 2010 ,Width: 5.3" (13.4cm), height: 2.9" (7.4cm) this is a hand held platform that plays games in 3d if you want this is optional.

ports:

3DS game card slot (also accepts DS games)

SD memory card slot

AC adapter port

Stereo headphone jack

BTEC Level 3 Games Design
Unit 73: Sound for Computer Games 
Assessment 1: Understand the use Sound & Music in games.  

the last of us keeps a slow like alone tempo to it as it starts giving a feeling your the only one left as it carry's on it sounds a sort of foot step tune and more instruments come into play giving the feel of a group being with you walking this continues over the rest of the song.
the total theme gives a wild west feel using a acoustic guitar this make's the feel of loneliness at the beginning more of a permanent feel because it continues to play as it goes on and with the wild west you start alone you will end alone.



Sources=this sounds source is from the games fourth wall (music that is not part of the narrative) it is used for the open menu screen and was only played as background.

Legal issues=copyright will come in to term with this with the western theme in it, if so the creators will have to pay a sum to use this content.this also takes from spaghetti westerns

with the song taken from little big planet you get the feel you are sneaking around and it begins to get more tense as it moves on getting louder introducing more instruments and the feel changes to a robbery like feel so you have went from sneaking about to trying to steal something.there is alot of timber in this song due to the same note playing over and over again just with different instruments.



Sources=with all music in little big planet games its hard to identified the source of the music it seems like it is in the fourth wall but this is used for a hist mission and in this games world of imagination it could maybe be heard by the player this is never identified.

Legal issues=when i have heard the music in LBP i don't believe copyright is owned by another then the creator of little big planet .

in the clip from last of us they used the entrance of each instrument symbolising each entrance and exit of a character in the game giving the feeling of gain and loss of friends, .WAV is most likely the sound file used for the music, thinking it is a big file holding more data , this formant can hold, the limitation of the sound is you can only hold so much data.

when comparing the music styles it is hard to do seeing that the little big planet song is more upbeat and happy giving the player a hyped feeling but the last of us song make you feel alone and mostly sad even when it gives that feel its more then just you , i believe both to be .wav files and they both have fine quality , the little big planet song was done in a small studio using soundboards where as i believe the last of us's theme to be made in a large studio with multiple musicians and recorded in a group, i personally would prefer the last of us but thats because i would understand it more when LBP isn't made like what. not the songs are uncompressed to a point, where it's a large file.sample rate used in the last of us would have to be high to keep up with the constant changing tempo and the lbp i believe to be fairly low due it it mostly being soundboard.
the RAM used for woth i believe they would need around 16 to 20 MB each. the recordings i think were originally recorded in analogue and then changed to digital for the game its self.

BTEC-extended diploma in Game design

Unit 74: computer game story development.

Assignment 1: unstoppable game story development

 In a games prospective for unstoppable I would make it an action, simulator, button masher game I would chose these because the movie gives the feel of action in it with the trains escapes and the attempts in the capture on the train 777, simulation for the driving of the train its self, and button masher because certain scenes would work well for it.

Unstoppable was a film based on a real event, where the train 777 was lost due to incompetence of the driver who was later fired from his position the driver Dewey played by Ethan Suplee, this person was ordered to move 777 but does not link the air brakes and leaves the carriage to flip a track switch but does not make it in time and 777 makes it on the main line endangering many lives.

Main characters.

Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington), the enganeer of train1206 and the father of Nicole and Maya

 

 Will Colson (Chris Pine) - the person who stops 777 and is the conductor of train 1206 and the main character who has a restraining opder against him.

Sub characters.

Rosario Dawson- Connie- the rail manager of the main train station in the movie.

Ethan Suplee-Dewey- the engineer of 777 who lost control of it and allowed it to go on the main line.                   

Kevin Dunn-Galvin- the owner of the train componey and the person who guves the orders of the first and second attempts  to stop 777 in the movie

Kevin Corrigan-Inspector Werner- the inspector knowng what the 77 was transporting and what it could do if it were to explode.

Kevin Chapman-Bunny- one of the rail management at the main station in the movie.

Lew Temple-Ned- another train worker and the truck driver who helps will get to the front if 777                                   

T.J. Miller-Gilleece- the conductor of the 777

Jessy Schram-Darcy- the wife of will and is with his son the main of the film and is never see talking much.

David Warshofsky-Judd Stewart- in the movie id there to slow the 777 to allow another to stop the train but is derailed by the 777 and is killed in the movie.

Elizabeth Mathis-Nicole- one of the daughters of frank and working at hooters the whole time                             

Meagan Tandy-Maya- one of the two daughters of frank and in the movie is worker at hooters the whole time.            

Ryan Ahern-Ryan Scott – the solder who was the first to attempt to stop 777 in the movie.

The main motivations in the movie seemed to be the character’s families and how their situations were for example Will Colson was motivated by his child and ‘wife’ who had a restraining order on him because he threatened an officer in his car resulting in him wanting to live to be with both his wife and child.so the emotions in this are fear, love, and regret I believe.

The beginning of the film is from the first character being seen to the loss of the train 777 during this time you meet the main two characters and their emotional back stories are revealed in the opening scenes.

Once the train 777 is on the mains the middle begins , in this more characters are revealed and are shown to be important and it begins to show the problem of what was happening with the speeding up of the train and at this point the action begins the train becoming a problem and the putting children in danger, with this scene they only just escape dearth , during this middle there are multiple attempts to stop the train and two deaths one of a soldier and another being killed by being derailed and not bailing , this continues down the track showing the real footage of the trains movements and a act of shooting the side of the train and a attempt to derail the train this does not work due to the speed so the main character’s catch up with the train and attempt to stop it but linking to the back and pulling and activating the emergency brakes this is where it ends.

The end, this starts when they began to slow the train and the main character takes the 777 controls and stops it they are then rewarded and seen as heroes in the end.

The relationship between the two main characters starts out rough with them always seeming to be on the verge of fighting or roughing, but as the movie progress’s the two are forced to trust one another and become friendlier over time and then by the end are best mates of the sort.

The plot.

Will Colson is starting a new job as a train conductor for the railroad. He is assigned to work with Frank Barnes a veteran train engineer. Initially there's some tension between them. Later a train that is carrying chemicals is running with no one controlling it. It is feared that if it stops or crashes into a populated area it could disastrous. Connie, an exec suggests derailing it but the man in charge refuses to do that on account of what it will cost. When attempts to stop it fail, there's fear of what they can do. But when Frank and Will have a close call with it, Frank decides to stop it themselves by coupling on to it. Will is not sure about it but sticks with Frank. By sticking with frank they successfully stop the rough train and are rewarded and reunited with their families at the end of the film.

The significant differences between an unstoppable game and the film.

-The game would be a simulator, action, button mashing game.

-The main characters could die in the game.

-The player would control the speed of the train if they fail to do so correctly they would die by crashing.

-The player would have choices that could determine death or not.

-The main train may have a choice to have the pressure brakes work.

-The main character train could fit in the first stop avoiding the 777 and maybe stopping the death of another engineer.

-The marine could survive and stop the train.

-The fat man could run faster and get on in a button mash.

-Main characters could die in the link up or the 777 could explode instead.

Each of the above could happen because the player made a choice for it to happen or successfully completed a task or failed, the outcome of each event is basically decided by the player and what they do.

The game would also be different from the movie by using different voice actors, different outcomes and could contain content that was never in the film its self maybe like the marine stopping 777 in the first attempts or 777 never escaping or the main character’s could die and another is pushed to stop the train.

conclusion
in conclusion the film is based of real events but had some features that are only in to add more action to a already terrible film and a bad event, the movie was easily worked out and you knew how it would end from the start.