Photoshop in a game/ *PNG Format/ Background/Level map,Storyboard.

Adobe Photoshop is a complex graphic editing program.It is a important tool in creating the design of a game and creating new characters.It helps us to manipulate the image and transform it in something else.For example it helps  to portray or modify new characters.The Photoshop can invoke new feelings,visions and new opinions.The Photoshop can manipulate everything.From a sad picture to transform in a live picture.From a bad character,transform it in a bad one.The tools and the effects that Photoshop posses,can do the impossible,it can make fantasy-reality and completely change our views.
With the help of this software we can convert a picture from *jpg format in a picture with *png format that we can use it in the game-in GameSalad program.
I did this experiment with a simple picture.From the image below I wanted just the character without the background which was behind.
For this test I just opened the picture in the Adobe Photoshop.I used the tool,named Magnetic Lasso and Polygonal Lasso to cut the character from that image.Magnetic Lasso helps to select the pixels and then cut the selection.Then I did refine edge and deleted the part that I did not want-the background.The next step was just to save the picture as a *png format.
             The result is attached below.
                                         

The process of creating a *jpg picture in a *png has an important role in designing a game.Because the original picture from the example above you can't introduce in a game's environment.The reason of this is that is not just the character but also the background, and you don't need it, you need just the character.Also in a game just the  *png format is acceptable.


The background has an important role in a game.It also can transmit emotions and feeling to the audience.For my game I wanted an luminous,colorful and similar with the reality.I wanted that the audience playing this game feel relaxed and emotional.I think that I manipulated the images and I created a colorful background.

The base of the background is a street because how I've mentioned in the story I wanted that my main character-a boy need to walk in a street and overcome the obstacles that will appear in his way.I changed the sky and also I added some new elements:the sun,the clouds and the rainbow. For creating this background I thought first of all at my genre which is arcade with elements of adventure.Secondly, I knew that my game is based on a romantic story and I thought that the background also need to transmit a  nice feeling of romance.When I was looking at some images in the internet and saw this image with a simple street I thought that it is the most suitable for what I want for my game.Of course that I added some new elements through the Photoshop.I used its tools:Magnetic Tool,Cutting,Pasting etc and transformed in what I wanted.
To make my game environment work, I need to create all the characters,which are the main characters and also the obstacles that the character will need to go over.Also I need to create some new backgrounds for my next levels.I think that for level two the background will be a shop-inside a store.Then in the level three I am thinking about a park, level four also a street and the last level-level 5 -a restaurant,inside of a restaurant where he will meet his girlfriend.

I think that with the help of  the Photoshop I transformed a simple picture in a colorful background that it is also pleasing to the eye.

Level Map/StoryBoard                  


 Tommy-the protagonist of the game.To move the character ,the player need to press the arrow keys.He has To collect 30$ and protect from apples.Tommy has 4 lives if is hit by an apple he will lose a life.If Tommy is hit by 3 apples,he loses the game.To finish the level,he has to reach the finish line where he will collect the card and he will be transferred to a shop.




How I mentioned before,Tommy is transferred to a shop-a jewelry store.Here he will have other obstacles.Collect 10 rings in terms of completing the level.He also has to protect from boots that will fall.If he is hit by a boot-loses a life.Tommy also need to jump over storefronts.In a game as an obstacle is a skull.If he is hit by it-Tommy loses the level and he will reset the game.In terms of moving to the next level,he has to reach the gold key but not without collecting 10 rings.

Then Tommy will collect 10 rings and also will reach the key,he will be moved to the next level-a park.He has to protect himself from leaves.If he is hit by one-will lose a life.In a game also is a new obstacle-frogs.He has to jump 3 times over it and kill it.He also has to protect from the skull because if he will touch it ,the game will be reset up.In terms of finishing the game,he has to collect 15 frogs and reach the finish line.

 Tommy is back in a street.He has to jump over stones.Protect from potatoes and tomatoes.From the sky will fall flowers.He has to collect them.In the game are some swamps.He has to jump over swamps if will fall in it ,he will lose a life.To finish the level-reach the key and collect 30 flowers.

The last level -the locations is a restaurant.Tommy needs to jump over desks. Protect from dishes that will fall down-loses a life if will touch one.On the floor will be some forks.If he will touch one-he will loose a life.In the game is also present a skull.If will catch it-the game will be reset up. When Tommy will meet his girlfriend-he will win the game.

I think that the level map but in the same time the storyboard are quite good because in every level is clear what the character will do in terms of finishing the level and ultimately-the game.To make this plan working,I have to think about the actors that will act in the game.What behaviors and rules to create and give them.When I will move to the practical method-namely,when I will apply my level map to the game I will change some aspects of the obstacles.Maybe I will add some new ones or I will extract some of them.When I constructed the storyboard I applied what I was thinking in that moment.In the future,maybe my imagination will develop regarding this game.