What is the GEC Primary Series?
GEC stands for Gameplay Elements Concept, my methodology to approaching game design. It encompasses reviews of existing games, modding, and many elements inbetween. With this video series I'll be talking indepth about games, specifically in regards to making games, and mods. I'll be talking about most subjects I have experience in with the general goal of providing insight into that methodology and my overall approach to design. I'll talk about subjects like motivation and workflow to give an idea how I handle challenging projects.
The GEC Primary Series is not intended to be used as a guideline or tutorial, but a food for thought series to provoke inspiration and critical thinking for personal projects.
Note - Many of these have background noise due to my fan. It is very possible that at some point videos may be revised for superior audio quality or more structured content.
Introduction
I talk about myself, some of my work, my approach to projects and what the GEC primary series is about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnz7qHuOev0
I'll be releasing videos in Waves, where each wave contains a series of subjects divided by videos. When the list of videos grows to larger amounts I will then organize them by general subject.
Wave 1
Spoiler: show
Wave 2
Spoiler: show
Wave 3
Spoiler: show
* Introduction to Graphics and Modeling with 3ds max
In this video I summarize the differences between sprites and models and then move into the UDK and 3ds max and demonstrate the basics of modeling and most of the tools in max I use to make all of my models.
http://www.gameproc.com/meskstuff/LP/mgec_graphics1.mkv
The Projects
Three major projects are made note of in this video series. They are as follows,
Black Sun: Retribution is a feature-length independent movie. It was discontinued in quarter 1 2014, since the character modeler I depended on refused to help.
Apex is a conceptual Sc2 campaign that was destroyed by the 1.5 patch. Since then it has been partly recovered, and remains in a constant state of design flux. The chances of it actually being worked on again are next to zero, and it is only used as a theorycraft centerpiece. Apex was revised heavily and a new design child, called Apex F, was conjured in 2014 and remains in slow, active production.
Starsworn is an evolving design originating from my first Warcraft 3 projects, and eventually settling as my premiere RPG/Action RPG game design. It is conceptualized to be a UDK project, but its design methodology forms my most important framework for gaming everywhere. It will never actually be attempted as a project because I am an idiot and can't learn basic skills.
Old OP
Greetings. I am currently in the production of creating a developer video series intended to provide a vocal (and sometimes visual) commentary on the way I produce projects of many different types and tackle a lot of different challenges, like aspirations and motivations. The series will be released in segmented chunks separated by subject and delivered by youtube. I currently have a small list of subjects I will be tackling for my initial release, but the reason I open this thread ahead of time is to gather subject suggestions.
Currently, my list is as follows;
General
- Designing a project type & the connotations of genres
- The 2042 design concept & goals of that project.
Graphics
- The graphics theology of 2042 and the importance of using technology and avoiding bad art "styles" (like d3). Readability, culling, and other important subjects will be talked about.
- IskatuMesk modeling game assets with 3ds max (I'm not a good modeller so I doubt anyone will learn much, but it's been requested)
Audio
- Remastering & mangling existing audio to create new effects & general engineering
- Voice acting, practice and improvement methods, recording conditions, & processing voices
Computer AI
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What kind of subjects would you like me to talk about? I'm open to creating pretty much anything proejct specific or not, as long as it's within my skill level to talk about.
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