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Making a Start Screen Part 2 : The Concept

Idea
  • Genre
    • Street Racing
    • Police / Cops chasing Street Racers & Smugglers 


  • Tone & Feel
    • Highway in American At night.
    • Got nice scenery : Mountains, Trees. 
    • Got billboards and sign boards.
    • Got cars going by.
    • Mostly trucks and transportation vehicle.
    • At night a lot of illegal racing. Drag Racing.
    • Police scout and monitor the safety of the highway by hiding behind billboards. 

  • Content
    • How to present the start screen.
    • 16: frame. Resolution playing around 1080p or 720p.
    • Might have some animation.
    • Background music.
The animation will be added upon progress of the initial template. Plus, most Racing Games does not need any animation from its start screen.

More detailed elaboration of the project will come from further post.

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  • My Job
    • I will frame the image.
    • I will set the tone and mood of the image,
    • If animation is place, I will determine which portion of image will be animated.
    • I will try to improve of the image in terms of 
      • Preparing and hyping player expectation.
      • Making it easy for player to understand and used the screen properly
        • The player should be to see the title and start screen at moment notice.

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