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ExMan3D - Summary

ExMan is a business simulation game, which aims at teaching the fundamental management principles to entrepreneurs or learners of management. The game is currently developed as a food service management simulator, but in general, is designed to be context-free from the beginning to be able to expand the game into other areas of studies. The game is designed to be single-player, which will include interactive AI agents in a combination of 3D and 2D game mechanics.

Key Features

General Features

• 3D game world
• Serious Game tied to the coursework done in the Nutrition course
• Recorded Dialogue to give a more authentic feel
• Contextual experience for players with some background in the food services industry

Gameplay

•  Isometric game view to allow player to see not only their character, but also how it interacts with the world.
• Mouse control to allow users to interact with the game with minimal movement (for use in classroom situation).
• Movement through the game world, with Dialogue based interactions to track knowledge gained from course. 

Locations

• Office: when notifications are triggered, the desk is where the player needs to travel to in order to loop at their laptop or answer the phone for example. This is the “start” section for whatever the event is that is in progress.
• Front door: Exiting the front door will allow the player to exit for the day and move the in game clock a day forward.

Concept of the game world and UI elements

Game Characters

3D models of some of the characters

Introduction Sanna Kulesova

Hello, my name is Sanna and I'm 23 years old. I study at Turku University of Applied Sciences Game technology third year. I'm a graphic designer and have some experience in 3D modeling using Blender. I hope while working on this project I will learn more about 3D modeling and maybe also on 3D animation as that is a whole new thing for me.

Intro

Hello, I am Gaurav Bikram Thapa, a 20 years old student studying in Turku University of Applied Sciences. I am into networking. I have basic knowledge  of C++ and Java. Also i have in depth understanding of CCNA routing and switching. Right now i am working on a project to build a website for a company. I chose this project this year to learn about 3D modeling. Since i have always been interested in arts and animation, i wanted to learn more about 3D animation and modeling. I hope by the end of this course i will learn more about 3D modeling.  

Introduction - Jussi Inkeroinen

Hey, I'm Jussi, a 22 year old student at TUAS. I have strong programming skills, front-end and back-end, with experience in working with various frameworks and tools. I can also do some UI design. I'm interested in both game development and app development. I like to do self-study on these topics, and I sometimes do my own projects outside of school studies. I have some experience developing apps for various operating systems and devices. I also experimented with 3D modeling and Unity 3D before. My weakness is that I sometimes lack confidence. My strength is that I'm very active in projects, if I am confident and interested in it. I'm looking forward to learn more about teamwork in game development and I hope I'll end up being useful for the team!

Introduction - Tuovi Eskelinen

My name is Tuovi, a 21-year-old student with network security as the main study field. I'm part of the art team in this project. I saw this project as possibility to learn how to do 3D modelling and computer graphics. Drawing has always been close to my heart and on later age character design as well. By playing all sorts of games I've seen characters of lots of different kind of and consider it one of my strengths. I've got no previous experience in 3D modelling but the topic has always been fascinating to me so I'm more than eager to learn every sort of trick there is about 3D animation and modelling. That might be my weakness but at the same time my strength. I'm eagerly looking forward on working with the team and the project owner as this is a wonderful chance to gain work experience on real working life projects.

You'll hear more from me when our team has some of the art ready to be shown publically.
Bye for now, yours Tuovi.

Introduction - Sampsa Kaskela

My name is Sampsa Kaskela. I'm a 24 year old software developer with 4 years of development experience. I mainly focus on games and web development. I have strong programming skills and my main languages are C# and JavaScript. I'm currently working as a Front-End Web Developer in a software company. Previously, I have done a lot of UI development and created core mechanics for the games. Most notable is AI for a RTS game. I prefer to split big problem to many small problems. This allows me to design systems that have many small entities that interact with each other and are easy to maintain. I expect to learn more about game development and game design during this project and I try to improve my design and problem solving skills.