Jurassic Park – Main Inspiration

Would it be surprising if I’ll say that my main inspiration were the Jurassic Park movies? Probably not. So they were my main inspiration altogether with the Avatar. All of the Jurassic Park movies had a huge impact on my decision to change my main idea to this new one.

I could have picked any of the Jurassic Park movies, but I’ve decided to re-watch the 3rd one. I remember, that there was an abandon lab, where the main characters hid from a dinosaurs for a while. This would be a great starting point for my lab facility research.

Although I could have put many other images from the movie in here, I’ve picked those, which influenced me the most. This is the interior of the facility, which gave me several new ideas:

  • I really like the idea of having cages for he dinosaurs inside the building. This shows that the workers were using them as part of their experiments and needed them really close. This could work out great in my own level design.
  • Although both the movie itself and the technology shown in the lab were quite old, it still gave me several ideas of what may be needed inside the facility. I’ve managed to make a short list of areas that could possibly be inside this type of place. As the scientists would work AND LIVE in the building, it require several different type of rooms for them to function properly. This list will be very useful when it comes to designing the map for the interior of the lab.
  • The forest had many interesting plants, but the more importantly, I’ve learned that in many places, the path was also completely covered with the smaller plants and leafage. This will definitely be applied to some areas in my own level.

Although this movie is pretty old (2001), it was a research worth spending my time on. I’ve learned quite a lot and it definitely will have an impact on my own production. I’ve came up with few ideas of how to improve my level, which would effect it in a really good way (I hope so). This was a good time and important research.

REFERENCE LIST:

Jurassic Park III, (2001), [DVD]. Directed by Joe Johnston, United States, Universal Pictures, [Viewed: 11 April 2019].

Chapter 1 – Idea Creation

After almost a week of working, I’ve decided to switch the idea. My first one was about vampires and their hideout , but now I wanted to create a level that is similar to Jurassic Park and has dinosaurs in it. This idea came to my head at random and stayed with me since now. I think it would be more interesting than vampires and cane become a really great project at the end.

So far, I have only make a list of potentional objectives and collectables:

OBJECTIVES:

  • find a map of the area
  • get inside the facility (find & use a ‘key’)
  • check perimeter for dinosaurs activity
  • bring ….. from a lab
  • gain specific components for a cure
  • solve a riddle (minigame?)
  • collect the information
  • find out what happened
  • get parts …… for your …..
  • find a key
  • locate a cure
  • mix the components (minigame?)

COLLECTABLES:

  • energy orbs (technology)
  • footprints
  • feathers/scales/fangs/teeth
  • journal tapes/pages (story/info about dinosaurs)
  • dinosaur eggs
  • puzzle pieces
  • references to Jurassic Park
  • samples (plants/dinosaurs)
  • bones
  • money/coins/diamonds
  • fossils

This is just a list of potential items and isn’t the final list for the game. This will change soon as I’ll make some decisions on what will be going on in the gameplay.

The new begining!

I’ve created this blog as part of my Final Major Project at university. I’ll be posting general updates of the stage of my project. This include the images taken while creating my pre-production work as well as during a production and post production stages. I hope that I’ll finish with the final piece that will become my best portfolio piece.