Game Artifact: Initial Ideas
For this part of the Visual Narrative pathway we were tasked with creating a game ready asset/character that embodies your created narrative. In my team of 2, we chose the theme ‘Out of this World‘.
After discussions and mind mapping, we decided we were both drawn to an alien, robotic, steampunk character. At this point we still had yet to decide the second asset. We had, however, imagined the environment our assets would have been in. We pictured this dystopian, futuristic world in ruins from a war. Society is divided between the wealthy and the poor, and the unfortunate have been outcaste to live in a run-down society, whereas the wealthy live in riches. To help brainstorm character ideas, we created a Pinterest board of images.
Before moving forward, we decided to quickly draw some rough character sketches, to help get the ideas flowing and to create a rough image of what we wanted at least one of our assets to look like.
Then finally, to round up our ideas and grab some inspiration, we created 2 mood boards; one for the character and one for the asset. Both mood boards included real world references and imaginary world references.
Character Story – SciFi Dystopian Lefkoza
Our character is based in a sci-fi dystopian future where society is divided into rich and poor . The mainland is where the poor live and the outskirts are the rich . Only a small percentage of people live in the outskirts. The story starts with our main character getting kicked off from the outskirts into the mainland with no friends, no family and no currency to survive . Our character is filled with rage and anger ,for, the reasons he got kicked from the outskirts were never be known to him . He becomes an outlaw in the mainlands with his only aim, being,to demolish every and all existence in the outskirts . His aim is to build equilibrium in a new made-up society. Little does he know the probabilities of achieving his goals are near impossible without a team. The story starts with our character learning to adapt , survive and thrive in these new conditions he finds himself in . Slowly but surely he finds like-minded people that want to see his vision every step of the way . They make a team and start recruiting people
from all different backgrounds. They are looking for the minorities of the minorities, the punks of the punks. The mainland comes with its own set of troubles and our team of punks are looking to find a way to not only survive their day to day challenges but ,find themselves in a position of power . So , our main characters sets off on a journey to make the minority , the majority and eventually the majority everyone. Will our character see his vision all the way through? Are his feelings of anger and revenge enough to park up an entire society to rebel? Are minorities , minorities for a reason?