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Game Design Assignment

2-D Art: Game development Assignment

Assignment

Create a game using the following words:

Improper Not in accordance with propriety of behavior, manners, etc.: improper conduct at a funeral.
-Undertow Any strong current below the surface of a body of water, moving in a direction different from that of the surface current.
-Peeling the act of a person or thing that peels.
-Mature Complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
-Oxygen A colorless, odourless, gaseous element constituting about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere and present in a combined state in nature. It is the supporter of combustion in air and was the standard of atomic, combining, and molecular weights until 1961, when carbon 12 became the new standard.
-Outbreak a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
-Riffraff people, or a group of people, regarded as disreputable or worthless: a pack of riffraff.
-Legitimate resting on or ruling by the principle of hereditary right: a legitimate sovereign.
-Progression a passing successively from one member of a series to the next; succession; sequence
-Veteran a person who has served in a military force, esp. one who has fought in a war: a Vietnam veteran.

Also create a story (synopsis), the game play and the setting.

Also concept artwork for the ideas of the game.

The words I used for my game idea were Improper, Mature, Oxygen, Outbreak, Riffraff, Legitimate, and veteran.

Game: O₂

Story

Setting –The story begins on earth in the year 2500.

The condition in which mankind has been treating earth, led to low amounts and even the depletion of natural resources. Mankind seemed to be doomed, but the earth’s government started on a project to send people to a planet that seemed to be able to support mankind. The planet was named, Zorron.

The government needed scientist, architects and soldiers for the journey to Zorron, major recruiting and training started. There were even schools and programs made specifically for this event. Millions applied for the position since they all wanted a chance to leave earth and start a new world.

The first fleet embarked on the journey to Zorron, and reported that there were hostile aliens on the planet, and that they needed backup. So the government declared war on these aliens and sent in fleet after fleets of soldiers to eradicate them all. Salvation, The war lasted for 3 years and all the aliens were eradicated. Once this was accomplished, the scientist and the architects were brought in to start building and creating a civilization on the planet. By the year 2505, planet Zorron was made to sustain human life, and all the troubles of mankind seemed to be solved.

Setting – On the Planet Zorron

People start to flood the docks of Zorron to find real estate on the planet. There were two options to the living conditions on Zorron. The air on Zorron smelled funny to people, but the government assured them that it was just the smell and that they would get used to it and that there was going to be no harm done. You could live on the outside, or on the inside of a dome, which has fresh oxygen pumping in 24/7. The only thing is that living inside the dome required you to pay for oxygen, which was very expensive, so only the rich could afford to live inside of these domes. The poor were basically forced to live on the outskirts, but were still aloud to be in the domes in public areas like the mall, grocery stores, etc. but still had to pay a yearly tax for these privileges. The Poor could still buy oxygen tanks that would pump oxygen into their houses, and also masks with cartridges that convert the air into pure oxygen, which usually lasted a week’s worth of usage, which then the cartridges must be filled again.

All was going well, until 2 years after settlement, when people started to get sick on the outside, they had no idea what was going on but blamed it on the air, since people living inside the domes were fine. The poor started asking questions and wanted actions to take place, but the government kept telling them that the air was fine and that there was no connection to the air and people getting sick.

The poor did not believe this and wanted free oxygen for all. The government did not comply and so there was turmoil between the two classes, the rich and the poor.

All of mankind’s efforts to start anew in Zorron were done in vain. Soon after there were riots and raids into the domes, where the poor stole precious oxygen. The government started arresting them and even declared martial law on the people on the outside. There were patrols and enforcement in place to try and stop the raids. This eventually lead to the use of violence and people started dying. This led to an all out war against the poor and the rich on planet Zorron.

The year is now 2510, war still rages, the player takes the role of Fenix Krawn, a veteran of the Salvation war, Fenix was promoted to General of the governments army due to his participation in the war. He has seen a lot of combat and was the highest ranking in his class. All this and he is only 23. He is haunted by what he has seen and done to the aliens, because to him it seemed wrong, but he was only doing his job.

Fenix leads raids on the resistances hideouts and brings them in for justice. But on one raid, he captures a young girl, and arrests her. He brings her in and people start to interrogate her, but all they find out is that she is the daughter of the resistance leader. She is jailed for the night, but she is broken out of jail by resistance members. There is a warrant out for her arrest, and Fenix was put to the job of bringing her in.

On one of his outings to find the girl, he falls into a trap and is captured and taken to the leader of the resistance. The daughter shows Fenix what he is doing, that he is fighting for a false cause. She takes him to room where he sees the aliens in which he had massacred during the Salvation war. He is shocked and says that they must be killed, they are hostile, but the girl tells him that they are human. The air has begun to mutate them. The general is stunned and decides right there and there that he is going to figure out what is going on.

He returns to the president and asks him what is going on, the president tells him that there was a fleet that was sent to Zorron in the year 2450, the first human settlers to live on the planet Zorron, there was no aliens, the experimental fleet of 500 000 were sent there to see if living there was possible. Within the first 2 years people started showing symptoms of being sick, and eventually by 2460 everyone was mutated but were still able to reproduce,. People wanted to be brought back to earth to be treated and saved, but the government did not want to bring them back, after all those years of research and funding, so they decided to stage a cover-up and eradicate them all, operation Salvation.

There was a reason why the government approved millions of applications of the lower class, convicted felons and old people to the planet, they were trying to get rid of them so that the earth can replenish its resources and make space on earth. Zorron was never meant to replace earth, it was only meant to make more room for more people on earth.

Hearing this made Fenix sick and he ran away to join the resistance, because of this he was wanted dead or alive, and his rival was now in charge of the army, and his only goal was to kill ann the resistance and Fenix.

Game play

- can play as both Fenix and/or the Resistance leader.

-Player can switch between first and third person views with a press of a button.

-Shooter-RPG, with real time strategy elements, can get people in your squad and command them. Stage tactical assaults

-mix of fallout3 and brother in arms

-action-reaction game, choices made in the game can affect how the game plays out, be the bad guy, or the good guy, get the girl or kill the girl, the game can go many ways, how you play it will determine the stories outcome.

- beginning will play Fenix in the school, doing training and stuff.

Artwork continued...

a couple more...

basic design for resistance soldiers, light wight, minimal armour, meant to move fast, raid domes and take loot, armour made from modified government soldier armour that was scavenged.
mutants, results of being over exposed to the air on the planet, immunity differs from person to person, usually symptoms start to show within a year or two. still able to reproduce when mutated, but 50 - 50 chance baby will be a mutant at birth.

symptoms your turning into a mutant:

-hair lose

-elongating of the head

-elongating of the chin

-bulging of the brow region

-ears start to deteriorate

-nose starts to deteriorate

-skin losses pigment

-digits become three, claws instead

-weight lose ( 0 % body fat)

-loss of voice(can still growl and scream)

Artwork continued...

more...resistance leader

resistance raider, plants explosives on domes and smoke bombs the area, forst ones in and last ones out, heavy armament
main girl, resistance leaders daughter, excellent marksman, duty - Sniper
main character, veteran of the war

Artwork

Finally got around to scanning my concept art for the game, any feedback is great.

government soilders
environment conceptmessing around with mutant designs and helmet design for the main char and raiders
ideas of the mains face

concept of mains battle suit

soooo

words used to make up ideas for my game:

-outbreak

-progression

-veteren

-improper

-mature

-Oxygen

also in class someone said democrat but wasn't put on the board, anyway i used that word to for the political background of the story as well.

settings:

-futuristic - planet, almost like mars, hard to grow vegetation, only a few that the outsiders use for food when needed, but other then that mostly, dry and sandy? or snowy? or wet? havent decided yet.

gameplay:

- still deciding on making this a fps rpg style? or like a realtime strategy game, or a 3rd person shooter rpg.

-most likely a fps rpg style that you can change from first person to third person camera modes.

-also decisions make the outcome of the game,

u can save the girl, have the girl, or lose/kill the girls, all based on decisions u make in the game, are you gonna be the bad guy or the good guy?

-should be explosive and surprising during raids and takeovers, since the resistance are smart and set up traps/ambushes like pros.

continued...

so basically what happens is that the girl is part of the resistance but likes the main guy.

main guy is emotionless but this girl breaks down all his defences and he starts to like her too

( i know cliche, whatever)

so there is an element of forbidden love here, so the war between the two classes still rages on, it has been about 3 years since colonization has first started and now the planet has been divided into two fractions.

so on one mission to destroy resistance strong holds, he discovers this girl and takes her to prison.

the main guy starts to question her and what not but fall for her charm, eventually she escapes and is now wanted for death.

search parties go out and look for her. main guy finds her, girl take the main guy to a secret location and revels to him mutants/aliens, the ones that looked exactly like the ones he fought to take this planet over, guy takes out gun in attempt to shoot but is stopped by girl, girl explains that theses people just started to show these symptoms, and were the first people to living on this planet on the outside for all this time, the air was mutating them and turning them into mutants and freaks.

girl explains to him that the aliens he was killing when he first came to this planet were not aliens at all, they were the first people sent on this planet to experiment and see if the living conditions were safe, obviously it wasn't, it led to mutation and led to an outbreak of more and more mutant offspring. the extermination was to cover the facts and to start over new, to use this planet as a balancer, to keep the rich fro dying, and to kill the poor, by mistaking them as aliens and "cleanse" the planet.

government planned for this to happen, saw what the poor were doing on earth, leeching off natural resources and making the gov use more money/resources to keep them, then to get rid of them, so devised this evil plan.

main guy is shocked and taken back, still works for the gov, but eventually confronts his boss and learns the truth, and decides to go awol, this makes it so that there is a warrant out for his death, and of course his rival is more then glad to take over hi postion and start killing more and more outlanders.

leads main guy to join the resistance and wants to help in the fight for equality for all.

more in-depth

so that was the back story of my game,

to be more in-depth...

so now they have colonized the planet for over 100 years. and still there is turmoil between the two sides.

Characters

Main Guy lead(23)

-was there to colonize the planet in the great war to exterminate the mutants/aliens on the planet

-was very young when in battle(18)

-when the was was over became a veteran at 20, was well respected for his valor in combat and was made the youngest commander in chief of the planets army.

-almost emotionless, had a girl on earth that he thought he loved, till she left him for his rival since the rival had more money etc, broke his heart, plus being a veteran.

-giving him an emotionless badass c personality complex.

Main Guy Rival(25)

-in battle (20)

-when on earth together with the main guy, they were always rivals, trying to out do each other in school and other activities, not a healthy type of competition

-hated main guys guts for being so "perfect"

-stole main guys girl on earth and then dumped her to come to the planet, so main guy hates him for that.

-arrogant, want to punch that bastard in the face kind of personality/attitude, rich kid and what not.

main girl (20)

-came on this planet when first able to colonize

-lives on the outside, is of poor class

-father is one of the leaders of the resistance

-falls in love with the main guy.

idea for game

so far this is my idea for the story in the game.

so its set in the future, where technology allows us to travel from earth in search for a new planet to inhabit, since earth is being crowded and the natural resources have been used up.

so the earths government goes to embark on a journey to inhabit a planet that is deemed suitable to live on, they find the planet, but it is inhabited by hostile aliens so the government exterminates them in a great war to take over the planet. this is achieved within a couple of years and soon colonization on the plante is made possible.

the only problem with this planet is that the air quality is really bad, still breathable but has a odour of "death" associated with it, so citys and towns are built within domes and connected by pipes, all air tight. of course this was for only the wealthy. the poor were forced to live outside these domes with the horrible smelling air, which the government say " you will get used to".

So the government now gets the bright idea to start selling oxygen to everyone that can afford it, obviously the tentants within the domes have no problem paying it off, but the poor also want clean air to breath, so the government issues gas masks with cartridges inside of them that filter out the air to pure oxygen through the mask, these filters only last about a weeks time then must be changed( different for military issued then civil issued versions).

but not all could afford this and wanted equal living conditions for all. there were arguments and riots over the right for clean oxygen, so much so that it made the two classes very hostile.

eventually both sides became enemies and the rich were protected within their domes, while the poor were living outside the domes exploring for new land within the planet and creating their own government.

this led to the poor to start raiding the rich for their oxygen tanks and cartridges and technology. which also led to guards and martial law, which also led to casualties and bloodshed, which only led to hatred between the two sides.

hey

So this is the start of my game concept development for my 2-d digital art class, the words i have to use to make a game about(not all words but some), are:

-Outbreak

-Rifraff

-Legititmate

-Progression

-Veteren

-Improper

-Undertone

-Peeling

-Mature

-Oxygen

It is due the April 1st

need

-Outline and Gameplay

-Synopsis

-Gameplay

-Story arc

-Settings

-Concept art work