Notes from Adam:
“you already know what I’m going to say”

They’re all beautiful in their own right, but they don’t go together. Summer, Fall, and Spring go together more, but Winter is good because of it’s simplicity. Summer, Fall, and Spring are complicated and dark. Winter is the Christmas movie with Rudolph. Separately, “I can see Summer and Winter working together” because their both lighter in palette. Likes the painted volcano in Summer, but doesn’t like the side cliffs – the water is too complicated and get rid of the lava in the foreground. Fall is death all around, rough edges, landscape is rough, & doesn’t need the frame created by the trees in the foreground. Spring is at more of a downward perspective than the others, you look at a specific point that is not a main thing, and needs more fake elements. In the end, we should be able to put them in a panorama together and not notice a change in style.

Andy mentions he likes Winter.
Adam makes suggestions:

Make it simple & easy for yourselves. Background should have limited colors: 3 & not be the main focus. One way to do that: re-skin Winter for every other season. In addition, there should be a painted background in the back of all the landscapes. Therefore, Winter needs a painted element w/ the sky (like mountains). Summer: softer beach sand, rolling hills become ocean waves, triangle trees become umbrellas, palm trees or _______. Fall: change the rolling hills into Fall colors, get rid of the trees in the foreground, use triangle trees and turn them red, orange, and yellow, put leaves on the ground. Spring: change rolling hill to green, move them around to create the river of water down the center, put lots of green triangle trees, add flowers. Keep the light luminosity.

So that’s where we stand… bring coffee, and lots of love as we crank out these adjusted landscapes & timers, power bars, paddles, and balls.

Fall

Overall Goal: Freeze the tree spirit – preserve him for the future.

Blocks: leaves and fruit (change different colors and then die) on a tree

Goal in Blocks: 40 yr tree spirit, that has three kids that never call.

Controllers: string between mittens (flap when they go up and down)

Ball: frozen ball

Seasonal element: leaves and wind

Landscape: Stream running back into the horizon. Trees on each side with branches intertwining overhead to create an arch. Leaves, orange, yellow, brown – warm earthy colors.

Winter

Overall Goal: To release a spring creature trapped in the ice blocks and facilitate transition to spring.

Blocks: ice blocks

Goal in Blocks: old tree spirit from Fall (bursts into flames and transforms into Fairies when goes into spring)

Controllers: heated metal rod – gets redder and hotter and starts’ shooting off fire sparks

Ball: fiery red thing that trailing bits of awesome

Seasonal element: snowing and stuff is covered in snow

Landscape: Hilly and covered with snow and evergreens. A high blue sky with clouds, large trees in the background covered pines bg (in the foreground oak etc), snowmen strewn about.

Spring

Overall Goal: When you go into spring, the young fairies explode out of old tree spirit. The main fairy (old tree spirit transformed) starts the transition and fairies plant everything. The main fairy becomes the goal (locked in a rock?) and the original fairies join him when they’re done. Break the center goal that will transform into the sun for summer.

Blocks: flowers and seeds with fairies in them when you break them

Goal in Blocks: the fairies that transform into the sun

Controllers: vines, ivy, twig – twig that grows more ivy as you gain power

Ball: glowing watery ball

Seasonal element: rain

Landscape: A lush forest. Lots of green and blues with gold light and deep soft brown earth. Moss covering everything such as logs and rocks. Trickling stream. Vines hanging from the ivy covered tree trunks with colorful flowers.

Summer

Overall Goal: Cool down summer. “Teenager” angry sun beating rays onto the earth – summer phase, when you break blocks they turn into clouds to cool off summer.

Blocks: blobs of water

Goal in Blocks: hit the sun to cool him down into a tree spirit

Controllers: lava plasma liquid rod

Ball: lava rock

Seasonal element: sun rays, volcano shoots fiery rocks out – and keeps getting worse throughout game

Landscape: Flat beach with water lapping against the sand, cliffs/volcano in the distance on the sides. Houses & signs of life other than creatures. Turtles :3 Little bit of the beach in the foreground, characters in shallow water, volcano in the background.

Linzi:

Season: Winter

Overall Goal: Everything is frozen. Melt the ice to get to the center block goal.

Blocks: Blocks are chunks of snow/ice that are close together in a circular pattern – so you can spin it.

Goal in the Blocks: a seed

Controllers: have to be hot or be able to catch something hot, so oven mits, metal pots, fire tongs, spatula, little fans, ceramic tiling, charcoal, metal grate, or hot/cold packs.

Ball: has to melt ice, so fire ball, lava ball, or lightning

Seasonal Element: timer/power bars covered in snow & ice and it’s snowing on the scene

Separation between sides/characters: a sled, a crack in the ice, a sign stating “Watch out for Thin Ice!”

Characters: cute bear thing;
Winning attribute: hat, scarf, coat, hot chocolate, hot soup, warm socks, mittens, ear muffs, or parka
Losing attribute: naked, pointy nipples, shivering, sees it’s breath, [nothing], or British Flag underwear

Landscape: rolling barren hills covered with snow, lots of ever-green trees covered with snow – feels cold.
Inspiration: http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/triptychs/MiscTriptychs/images/GenjiWomanSnowLandscape.jpg and http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41260000/jpg/_41260184_simon_cull.jpg and http://www.grosh.com/upload_images/original/ES1189.jpg

Transition to Spring: More clouds will move into the sky, it will change from snow to rain, small plants will start to poke and tear through the fabric hills slowly and then shoot up really thick into really lush redwoods. The brown dirt will grow out onto the white fabric (like dirty ink) and at the end of the transition, flowers will open.

Season: Winter

Overall Goal: The queen of ice has sealed her heart away with the the coming of spring.

Blocks: A dazzling fortress of snow an ice, seals the passage to spring. Guarded by snowmen that break into snowballs.

Goal in Blocks: A seed within a heart of ice.

Controllers: A bar of hot iron.

Ball: This magical ball of wood glows in constant flame. It is said that if provided with enough power it can even melt the heart of the queen.

Seasonal element: Occasional dropping blurred snow flake.

Separation between sides/characters: Rock, or tree.

Characters: Addorable bear yettis are so cute and adorable that perhaps they can even bring a smile to the queen’s face.

Landscape: White rolling hills of snow. Simple background. Fort shaped design of snow and ice. Some simple pines in the background.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zebandrews/2230418266/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zschnepf/1088969939/

Transition to spring: Snow melts away as winter grows in. The bear yetti sheds it’s fur into a plant creature.

Season: Spring

Overall Goal:
rain on the flower seeds

Blocks:
flowers and seeds maybe clumps of mud fertilizer vines clouds – mud disintegrates – seeds fall to the ground and make flowers – clouds dissipate and cause additional rain

Goal in Blocks:
the sun held down by clouds, maybe clouds with faces actually ‘holding’ the sun? sun could be squirming D:

Controllers:
shovels burlap bags twine, vines, leaves, strings

Ball:
ball of water with particle trail

Seasonal element:
rain, falling on everything in scene.

Separation between sides/characters:
wall of mud, wall of vines

Characters:
weird dude with the big lips

Landscape:
Wide open field ( unplanted )

Transition:
clouds fall out of the sky onto the ground, sun lowers from the top, and the unseeded ground rolls up like a carpet to reveal the beach underneath

Season: Spring

Overall Goal: Destroy all the poison crystals before your spring characters eat them.

Blocks: Giant plants hang for the ceiling with open mouths displaying poison crystals (obviously poison due to skull symbol on it) in two small circles with goals in the center of both. The circles spin to either side, but if you pick the wrong goal – you die.

Goal in the Blocks: starfish, shell, sand shovel, towel, margarita, small sun, sun glasses, or beach umbrella.

Controllers: rubber gloves, machete, rope, rifle, umbrella, or weed whacker.

Ball: ball of aloe or lotion, or ball with a serrated knife coming out of the center.

Seasonal Element: timer/power bar covered in vines, raining on the scene

Separation between sides/characters: logs covered in moss or dangerous plants

Characters: plant monster
Winning attribute: rain coat, umbrella, pretty colored – I’m not really sure, it’s hard to dress a plant…
Losing attribute: ugly colored, gets rained on, shivers, gets poison ivy bumps, scratches

Landscape: ground covered in logs and plants and large trees all covered in moss.
Inspiration: http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/1220/mononokewall01smalllf6.jpg and http://www.johnwatsonart.com/picsunpublished/batman_ivy02_large.jpg and http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/hampton-court-flower-show-marquees/venus-fly-trap-plants.jpg

Transition to Summer: The trees start to shake and then get smaller and shoot back into the ground. The mossy ground gets pulled off like a towel at the beach revealing sand and water.

Linzi: