Tabletop Game Character Design Of THE LONGEST DAY IN CHANG AN

This dissertation takes the character design in the visual elements of tabletop games as the creation object,and elaborates on the types of tabletop games character and the development of tabletop games at domestic and foreign,indicate the importance of character design for tabletop games and the necessity to rational,and take two excellent tabletop games as the analysis object to summarize their design strategies and design shortcomings.Finally,propose two programs about character design,fastidious design and fancy design.Use fastidious design as instruction,THE LONGEST DAY IN CHANG AN as the theme,tabletop games as carrier,design a complete set of tabletop game character designs with complete elements.From this logic of writing,the first chapter introduces the types of character design in tabletop games,on the other hand,it summarizes related research directions at domestic and foreign,point out the lack of research in the field of tabletop game’s visual element design.The second chapter starting from the cases,taking "Three Kingdoms" and "YuGiOh OCG" as the analysis objects,summarize the design strategies and shortcomings of the two games in their character design.The third Chapter summarizes the character design experience of the above two games and the author’s own knowledge base,proposes two sets of design ideas for character design,and summarizes the basic elements required for a complete character design program.The forth chapters and fifth chapters take fastidious design as the core idea of the design program,use THE LONGEST DAYIN CHANG AN as the game blueprint,integrate the visual element of the Tang Dynasty into the design of the tabletop game characters,and strive to restore historical details.At the same time,discover own shortcomings and plan for the future development.Practice has proved that the design ideas proposed by the author can be applied to the design of desktop game characters.