Spring 2009
For one to be truly creative, a cheap means of exploring and discarding ideas is essential. Artists rely on sketches to inspire and refine their thoughts before committing their creations to paper, paint, crayon or one of the numerous other mediums.
Game creators, for all their time and money spent in bringing an idea to life, have no such sketching process. Even the giants in the game industry use primitive tools like cardboard cut-outs and photo montages to express their game design and game play ideas to other members of the team.
To alleviate this state of affairs, we introduce Sketch- It-Up!, an industry oriented, student-pitched project. Using this tool, complex ideas can be easily and cheaply sketched. The inbuilt library of assets lets you hit the ground running and complex AI has been done away with and replaced by something vastly superior – human puppeteers! By its very nature, showing off your game ideas to someone on the other side of the world is as easy as Connect and Load.
Let the Sketching begin!