Developing Icons

In this session, I take some time and thinking of icons for my game board. At first, I developed a few early sketches of icons that can represent certain category. The icons are later further developed and categorized into race, buildings, food and such.

Mood board

This week, I am tasked in creating a mood board for my gameboard. The mood board will determine the colors for the gameboard. First off, I determine areas where and what content I want to put in. After that, I preceed to create the Mood board based on the position I choose.

Planning the moodboard

 

Finalizing

End result

College Culture

             Firstly, I want to talk about the places where people would hang out and chat. One of these places is the library, its a place where people would hang out but most of them are more focused on work while in there. At the main hall, there is always people hanging around almost all day although relatively small. The canteen has people hanging out during there lunch break and would stay there chatting until lunch is over. During the evening, the small post around the college would have people hanging out usually with small groups. At night time, the football field near the 7/11 shops are usually packed with Nigerian/ Africans. At the local hostel, the badminton court would be the place to "lepak" during the night in small groups sitting on the ground. Sometimes, the food stalls that are only open at night would be a place to hang out as well.Also, there are at the shops nears 7/11 its mostly packed during the night.

 People hanging out at the main hall

People hanging out at the canteen

              Next, is about the food culture at my college. During the afternoon until evening, there would be a vehicle stall selling Nasi lemak and sometimes porridge. Alot of people go there to buy Nasi Lemak during lunch and would mostly be sold out after lunch. We call the owner of the stall "Pak Cik" (Uncle) and is quite known by local and international alike. The school canteen is open early morning till evening. There are Chinese and Indian themed food, both have variety of selection but in my opinion the taste was just average at the same time quite expensive. The Shops at 7/11 are mostly Indian themed food, they are usually packed for their economic value. At the same time, there are fast food stalls nearby the shops. The burger fast food is usually open during the evening till midnight. The burger they make is actually not bad. Theres also a nasi lemak stall there as well and the food he sells are also good. Sometimes, there would be a fried chicken stall. They appear usually at sunday but sometimes can appear at other random days. The stall sells fried chicken, chicken hot dogs and popcorn chicken. The food is also quite delicious. Each Wednesdays, there would be a pasar malam with multiple choices of food and items. At the local hostel there would be multiple food stalls set up during the night till evening. Some stalls have decent and some have good food.

The indian canteen

Indian themed food

Chinese themed food

The Nasi lemak stall

The burger stall

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"Pak Cik"Nasi lemak truck

The Fried Chicken stall

                   

Notation System

In linguistics and semiotics, a notation is a system of graphics or symbols, characters and abbreviated expressions, used in artistic and scientific disciplines to represent technical facts and quantities by convention. Therefore, a notation is a collection of related symbols that are each given an arbitrary meaning, created to facilitate structured communication within a domain knowledge or field of study.

Standard notations refer to general agreements in the way things are written or denoted. The term is generally used in technical and scientific areas of study like mathematics,physics, chemistry and biology, but can also be seen in areas like business, economics and music.

Visualizing a person

We are given a task to visualize and sketch a friend based on their positive and negative traits. Each of us are to interview our peers and ask questions. In my case, I am assigned to interview my fellow peer Budu.

This is a list of traits I have gathered on the interview. 

His positive traits are :

- Non smoker

- Non Alcholic

- Loves family

- Loves to relax

- Religious

- Artistic

- Very Aware

- Outgoing

- Food

and negatives are :

- Troublemaker

- Graffiti in public

- Like to get high

- Likes to Argue

- Hangs out with friends more than family

- Mischievous

- Harsh

This is my first sketch of Budu showing all his traits. But, it lacks the visuals to show my fellow peer Budu.

This sketch is my second attempt on visualizing Budu. I drew his face as colored it brown because he is an african. His eyes shows that he is a non smoker and drinker. He likes food so I drew bacon and eggs as his mouth. He likes to paint so I pictured him painting his face. The flowers on his neck and sunny clothing to display a peaceful nature and relaxation. The cross on his neck shows his religion. The Chain, bat and hat shows that he is a mischievous person as well as a trouble maker. I made his ear large and sound effects because he is always aware of his surroundings.  The Background shows a wall with Budus graffiti on it. Theres also a disco ball because he like to party and get high in there. Theres his Friends in the background because he likes to hang out with them more. It is also a reason that I show a tattoo of his love for his family because he prefers to hang out with friends more than his family.