Chick n' Stu Concept Art

Here are some sketches of the characters. I feel that Chick has a really strong personality but I am still unsure with Stu. I am not sure whether to make him young (as he is in the coloured image) or to make him older. Since the game has a lot of pain sequences it might be more politically correct to inflict these on an older man as opposed to a teenager? I will continue to work on this!

Game synopsis and control interface

So the game, as it stands (all this is flexible at this stage) has two characters: Chick and Stu. Yep, we are a witty lot! As a duo they each possess opposing personalities. Chick is the intelligent motherly chicken, and Stu is the poor fool attached to the 'bandwagon' (he's slightly on the dim side too).

The current theory is that Chick and Stu met whilst Stu was escaping from an experimental lab facility (The introductory level). Stu remains shackled to the cart or wagon for some reason and Chick ends up helping him, much to her reluctance.

This sets two sorts of sections for the game
- Stu based: Track based balance level
- Chick based: Exploratory puzzle based level

Each level will therefore make use of the controls in different ways.

Welcome to the Bandwagon Blog!

This is an online account of the development of a Masters project undertaken by 3 students at Bournemouth University.

The team consists of:

John Griffiths (MA 3D Computer Animation)

Ian Thompson (MSc Computer Animation & Visual Effects)

Sophie Shaw (MA 3D Computer Animation)

Our premise is to develop a fun scalable game for the Wii console. The inspriation is from the expression 'jumping on the bandwagon' which we decided had the potential to create a very entertaining game!

We are currently at initial software testing stage but it looks like we will be using Unity. It is very exciting to have the opportunity to make use of this software and we are grateful to the staff of the Interactive Media degree for allowing us to use their kit.

The project will have a duration of approximately 15 weeks.