Setting: Victorian/steam punk England
The game would be a third person role play game, set in fictional history in Victorian England. The story is about an engineer from present day travel to the past by sitting in a magical chamber in a train which was made during the first industrial revolution. In this game, the player have knowledge, skills and devices of the “future”, however he is limited to use those skills since “current” technology does not have the basics to support those advanced technology. The goal of the game is to craft tools and do missions, protect the chamber, search for the designer of the chamber and finally fix the secret chamber and come back to present day.
The level I am going to build will be a the first level, the train station. The character will get off the train and start the journey from here.This level will serve the purpose of introducing the background story of the game and some basic game mechanics. At the same time, the level will also be the home base where the vault is located and player can sign up for missions.
In term of art style, I think the best reference will be the first two games of Bioshock series, a fantastical steam-punk city. In this level, there will be different shops that player can visit to get familiar with the money system of the game. Since the player can only move inside of the train station, I assume most of the lighting will be artificial spot light.