Coming Up With The Idea
Group Members: Richard, Russell, Leon and Myself.
The new project was launched today and we found out that we had to work in groups to take a game idea and develop it more. We had a choice to choose the total genre and style of gameplay but since we couldn’t decide on an idea, we ended up going blind and picking out the hat. We ended up with a Sci-fi strategy game for the PC. We chose to stick with what we had gotten and created a brainstorm of different ideas that all ended up revolving around a base strategy game. Taking ideas from games such as Command and Conquer, Halo Wars and StarCraft we pretty much had a base for our game to build on. So starting off having two different teams and battling out with built turrets and waves of units against each other , this was the overall idea of how the game was going to develop.
To give you example of what I mean, the game is more along the lines of Sanctum.
The new project was launched today and we found out that we had to work in groups to take a game idea and develop it more. We had a choice to choose the total genre and style of gameplay but since we couldn’t decide on an idea, we ended up going blind and picking out the hat. We ended up with a Sci-fi strategy game for the PC. We chose to stick with what we had gotten and created a brainstorm of different ideas that all ended up revolving around a base strategy game. Taking ideas from games such as Command and Conquer, Halo Wars and StarCraft we pretty much had a base for our game to build on. So starting off having two different teams and battling out with built turrets and waves of units against each other , this was the overall idea of how the game was going to develop.
To give you example of what I mean, the game is more along the lines of Sanctum.
After working out what the main objective of the game would be and that there would be two main sides we split into groups. Richard and Russell are handling the “Sci-fi human cyborg” race and Leon and I are handling the “Sci-fi alien creature” race.
We first created mood boards so it gave us an idea to show each other the kind of creatures we wanted to create. This gave us a chance to throw ideas easily and be able to get a quick idea of what we wanted. I used different pictures to show the different colours and different kind of armour an alien could have. Here is a picture of my mood board,
