THE MOORS - Explore the Legends (working title)

This project is designed to explore nuances of the Unity 3d Engine through development of a game experience based around Myth, legend, lore and factual information relating to Dartmoor.

The Premise of the game is to provide the user with an exploration experience, by means of finding puzzle pieces that composite the key to completing the game.


The First iteration of the game is held around the a high profile legend Kitty Jay.


Kitty-Jay, real name Mary-Jay, was an 18th Century suicide victim who fell pregnant under the son of a Manaton farmer. 

Her story began in the late eighteenth century, circa 1790.  As an orphaned baby, she was taken into the Poor House at Newton Abbot. The girl`s name would be derived from the surname beginning with the letter the Poor House had progressed to - in this case 'J'. As many of the commoner names had been taken, the baby girl ended up with 'Jay'. In those days the word 'Jay' was also a derogatory term for prostitute, so the Christian name Mary was prepended to the girl's name.
As with many form the "Workhouse" Mary-Jay was sent to work

Not long after she had been at the farm, Kitty Jay started to receive the attentions of the farmer’s son, a much desired position for a poor orphaned workhouse girl. As was a common occurrence back then, Kitty thought she had found love with the son and was most likely very excited to tell him she was pregnant.  However, Kitty was informed about the prospects of being with the son through the Farmer and his wife, who demanded she leave the farm and return to the workhouse immediately.

They believed she had cajoled their son into sex, and with the prostitutes namesake of  "Jay", all fingers pointed toward Kitty-Jay as the instigator of the debauchery.

Kitty Jay was forced to leave the farm, and left with a reputation of  "Slut", which all the neighboring farms would soon hear about.
At this stage, Kitty knew only too well that once word got around she would become unemployable, which left her two options.
1. Return in disgrace to the Poor House without the prospect for future work and bring a child in a world of bitter hatred for the underprivileged.
2. Suicide!  An option Kitty must of felt was her only real choice.

Days later, Kitty Jay was found hanging in one of the barns at Canna Farm, Manaton.

Following the lore and legend, derived from this suicide, the game`s premise is set around Dartmoor sites of specific interest, such as Houndtor, Jays Grave, and other local moorland tourism areas.
The goal is to obtain the bones of Kitty Jay and rebury them at the grave constructed for her, so she may finally rest in peace, or maybe to finally return and haunt the ancestors of the family that shamed a poor pregnant workhouse girl into feeling there was no alternative but to end her life as a result of what had occurred.

For all graphics related work, the tools undertaken shall be:

• Google Earth, Autodesk - (3DS Max, Maya, Mudbox)
• Pixologic - (ZBrush4, Sculptris Alpha)
• Blender 2.6.4/5
• USGS DEM data (Topographical overlay information plugin used with Google Earth)

The above have been and will be used throughout the project to discover the means of accurate recreation techniques for environments and other game models including textures that have been converted from original images into tiled and UV mapped textures that wrap the models.

Any animation techniques and outcomes used in this title will most likely not be original as the scope of this project already covers a multitude of disciplines usually found covered by multiple entities in game development.
These will be referenced accordingly as and when their use is required.