Godzilla's Den: Godzilla's Den

DESIGNING AND MAKING THE VIDEO GAMES

Our class designed our very own video games for our topic on Japan. We knew from the beginning that our focus was to present our ideas to 3 Godzillas (3 experienced people from the video games industry). Sort of like the TV programme, 'Dragon's Den.' At first our group talked about the idea of a sushi chef who saves from evil sushi that tries to take over Japan! We split into groups of different subjects, one group was designing characters and the other was designing levels.

The character group designed all the enemies, points and characters while the level group designed all the levels and goals. We also had to include a bonus level to collect points at the end of the game.

PRESENTING TO THE GODZILLAS

Once our games were finished we had to write a script about our video games to present it to the Godzillas who were a game fanatic, a game designer and a journalist. We all wrote a script about each thing in our video game and practised it lots and lots. One person talked about points, one person talked about a character etc.. Then we each made a slide show and added sound pictures and we designed a poster for each group to put at the end of the slide show. Also at the beginning of each presentation we all had to do a drama about the game, like if your character’s experiment goes horribly wrong and creates evil you could act that scene out.
When the day came to present it to the Godzillas most of the class was feeling excited and the rest were feeling excited and nervous at the same time and when they walked in to the room we all sang Blue Oyster Cult’s "Go Go Godzilla!!!" Then we all presented our games.

At the end of each presentation the Godzillas asked us a few questions about our video games and told us about the things that they enjoyed about the presentations and we got to ask them a few questions about making games, playing games and reviewing games.

RECORDING THE PRESENTATIONS AS A MOVIE

We also recorded our presentations and slide shows and put them into imovie. We made animations for our game with "I can animate" the same way we made the tangram animation and origami animation. Our group did level one [where you have to defeat all the sushi in Tokyo] and level three [where you have to kill the Sushi King!!! ]Other groups did animations like on a roof of a pagoda fighting the last enemy, which is all the other enemies combined!

In another group’s animation you're running through Tokyo trying to defeat Ishi who is an evil midget who works for Yon Yang that wants to make Mount Fudgie erupt (Mount Fuji but it erupts fudge)!!!