Hello! Today I decided to create a story based on the traditional territory of my family’s clan in the Scottish Highlands that follows the young boy Gweyn (my Gaelic name!) as he embarks on an epic journey with his companion, the Cailpeach (or Kelpi). In Scottish folk tales the Kelpi is actually pretty awful. It…

https://www.dundoc.com/project/10701/afz2zn9ok0 Hi everybody, I’ve linked my videogame that I created on Dundoc. The game is a real time strategy and building game titled Frankokratia, meaning rule of the Franks, and is set after the Crusader conquest of Constantinople in 1204. In the game you play as any of the successor states set up in the…

Dundoc link. I have envisioned a game set on Victorian England. What a surprise! I was very uninspired, since I have not played videogames in ages, but there is a special place in my heart for Red Dead Redemption II. That is where I have taken inspiration from, very deliberately. This game should follow a…

Hey everyone! I’ve attached a link to the Dundoc game that I had been mulling on this week. The process of creation was relatively straightforward but the movement into actual gameplay was what stumped me the most. Translating ideas of storytelling into actions that can be felt and done versus simply narrating events was a…

Perhaps the most obvious realization when conducting this social profile check online was the recognition that my hometown is seemingly unknown to the Internet. To receive a proper response, I was forced to include different buzzwords such as ‘Hamilton’, or ‘McMaster’, and even then, the results were slim and often found between results for a…

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