Blog Update 3/6: Starting Points

I mashed up some environments I liked for potential levels in the game that I thought would work well.

I started doing concept work for a mentor. I originally thought of doing a martial artist or Master Splinter type character but then thought a voodoo master or witch doctor would be more appropriate so I pulled up an old drawing of a shaman as a starting point.

 I started trying to write a story as I had a rough idea in my head of how it would go but got stuck when trying to build it off of the hero's journey as it mentions a segment concerning a mentor which I had not thought about.

I wanted to capture some feelings from the previous moodboards in some thumbnails. The Left most image kind of had something I wanted but didn't capture a feeling of protection and also it looks like the kid is mad at the spirit. The middle image was much more the feeling I wanted to convey about the relationship of the girl and the spirit with a feeling of loyalty and protection. The image on the right was want I wanted the Queen to convey absolute power and corruption which I think the thumbnail image does.

2 Characters popped into my head for the direction I wanted to go with the spirit. Dr Destiny had a classic grim reaper type look and Spawn had the look of a badass avenger that I wanted. I decided that I will use elements of both but lean more towards a fully cloaked hero where you can't see all his rippling muscles.

I tried out some different kind of shapes for the spirit and I thought that a massive rectangle with some points would reflect his character quite well as he is stubborn, strong and is aligned with a realm of "evil".

I did some new concept work for the girl. I wanted her to either look like an "innocent ghost" or something like "Kim Pine" from the Scott Pilgrim comic series.