Final Project Proposal-Shadow of the Colossus
Released in 2005, the video game Shadow of the Colossus is
one of the best action adventure games created with amazing graphics for the
time. The premise of the story is that a
man travels to a land of colossi in order to have Gods restore life to a young
lady. In order for the Gods to revive
her, the man must defeat all 16 colossi.
While playing this game you must travel the vast landscape
in order to reach these colossi. The
only way to find your way in the game is use light off of a sword to point you
in the right direction. There is a map
in the game, but like most games at the time it is not very straight forward in
helping guide you. There are plenty of
tutorials out there that will show the path you need to take and explain
information on how to beat each colossus.
What my project will be is making an interactive map combining all 16
paths into one manageable map. The other
reason I want to this is because all of my previous maps I have created were on
a more serious topic, e.g. violent crime rates and detailed travel maps. This allows me to venture out more creatively
on a less serious topic.
I will use flash to create the motion tweens, rollover information
about each colossus, and creative use of the games icons. I
will create a menu for each colossus using buttons. I might build a timeline, but it will not be my main focus.
I have already found a great basemap of the “forbidden land”. I have also found the symbols for each
colossus but they are all in one image. I
will use the information from IGN’s wiki to use for the walkthrough and maps of
each path.
I will have to use photoshop to chop out each symbol and
then make the backgrounds transparent.
This will take some time as each symbol can be really detailed. Another hurdle I foresee is creating the
motion tweens to match the path that the player must take to reach each
Colossus. The biggest hurdle I foresee
is creating a good popup that allows me to put URL’s in the popup. I will not have room to explain how to defeat
each colossus but I can link the walkthroughs for each colossus into the popup.
With just about a month to do the project, I will need to do
about 5 colossi a week. This will give
me the full rough draft no later than 3 weeks.
From there I can do the fine tuning on the design.
Even though the game is a decade old, it is still seen as
one of the best games ever created, but not as well known as Super Mario or Final Fantasy 7. For the rare few out there that still play
this game, it will be very useful. It
may not be the most used map, but it will allow me to create a type of map that
I am not used to.
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