Month: January 2024

• Genre: single-player, open-world RPG
• Story: Post-apocalyptic survival tale, trying to find your son
  • From Bethesda: “As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.”
• How is it played (hardware): I played on PC so you’d need:
  • Keyboard/Gamepad
  • Mouse
  • Display
• How is it played (conceptually)
  • heavy RPG elements, similar to D&D for speech checks and overall skill leveling
  • There are a decent number of affordances in the UI to guide the user through things
    • Tutorial stages are lovely to a degree

• Things I enjoy:
  • open world RPG is actually my favorite genre
  • very immersive in that you can spend a decent amount time in the game before realizing just how long it’s been
  • honestly I am very much a fan of this game, and anyone who says otherwise probably just loves to hate on Bethesda titles that aren’t the Elder Scrolls
• Things I don’t enjoy:
  • the occasional “Bethsoft Bugs” but nothing ‘day ending’ or that ruined the experience
  • dialogue moments get stuck sometimes and there’s not a good way to skip them

• Target Audience:
  • Suitable for those who love action, storytelling, and freedom in their gameplay.
  • Great for players who enjoy exploring open worlds with rich backstories.
  • Might be overwhelming for those preferring linear, straightforward games.

If I were to be a Swiss Army Knife of ‘creative tools’ I think my breakdown would look a little something like this:

• Carbon fiber shell (vs the typical red plastic with a metal undercarriage)
• Exacto knife
  • cutting print jobs and finding new ways to use cutting to accomplish artistic/creative feats
• USB drive
  • gotta keep those files in order
• Built-in mono-glass with blue-light filtering
  • so I can look closely at my work without loss of detail from display to other media formats
• Mobile die-cutter
  • gotta be able to print and cut
• Cat beacon
  • the world is just a better place when you can call a cat at any time to help keep you calm
• Pantone color swatches
  • gotta keep those colors the same!!
• lighter
  • want to keep the mood lighting and scents right with candles and such

Description of prompt/desired imagery:

• “Playing frisbee with a cat in the park”
• I hope this creates a complete scene of a person and a cat playing frisbee in the park, as you might expect to see a person doing with a dog in a stereotypical scenario

Sketch:

Generation program:

• ChatGPT enhanced with DALL-E image generator

VERSION 1:

• Prompt: “Can you generate an image of a person playing frisbee with a cat in a park?”
• Result:

VERSION 2:

• Prompt: “This is almost exactly what I had in mind, maybe similar to that last one, but with the cat jumping for the frisbee”
• Result:

VERSION 3:

• Prompt: “You didn’t use the same style as the one I said I liked, this is more cartoon-like”
• Result:

RECAP:

• In conclusion, honestly AI is a good brainstorming tool rather than an actually accurate way to create something you desire. I would probably suggest using something like this to generate positional changes or different ‘views’ of standard objects or other things.
• Pros:
  • It ‘can’ do the job
  • really realistic in general
  • great variations
• Cons:
  • despite doing the job, it is not consistent
  • cannot produce the same thing even when asked
  • still very much can tell it is generated when next to real art