{"id":392,"date":"2018-10-26T05:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/?p=392"},"modified":"2018-10-26T05:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:40:50","slug":"research-update-2-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/2018\/10\/26\/research-update-2-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Update #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I found an incredibly helpful video by game developer\u00a0Ryan Stevenson who talked at a Game Developer&#8217;s Conference on how the team approached creating a style for their newest game <em>Sea of Thieves<\/em>. The video goes over many different parts of the design\/thought process. Ryan emphasizes the importance of research, references, and concept art so you don&#8217;t start creating things blind. He also recommends looking at others work not to steal their style but to try to understand why they did things the way they did (how they use lighting and color for example).<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned that they chose a more stylized aesthetic instead of a realistic one because those are the ones that tend to hold up better. I couldn&#8217;t agree more. While realistic and hyper-realistic games are impressive, it wasn&#8217;t really until this console generation that the hardware was powerful enough to handle such detailed models. Even then only AAA companies can afford to spend so much money to make these pricy games. Older games that were &#8220;realistic&#8221; have aged poorly aesthetically and this is something I want to avoid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BzppoQTG3m0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BzppoQTG3m0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I found an incredibly helpful video by game developer\u00a0Ryan Stevenson who talked at a Game Developer&#8217;s Conference on how the team approached creating a style for their newest game Sea of Thieves. The video goes over many different parts of the design\/thought process. Ryan emphasizes the importance of research, references, and concept art &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/2018\/10\/26\/research-update-2-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research Update #2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamuO2-6k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}