{"id":294,"date":"2020-10-28T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T04:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b20\/?p=294"},"modified":"2020-11-11T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:45:21","slug":"terry-game-design-proposal-cold-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b20\/tdeng2\/terry-game-design-proposal-cold-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Deng Game Design Proposal – Cold Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this game pitch sometime last year, but it was overturned for a different pitch. I re-thought and redesigned some of its original elements, as well as thought of the environment and setting of the game world. This is quite a long post so feel free to read it all or skim through it. It’s also pretty ambitious so I definitely don’t expect this to go all the way. Without further ado, here is my design proposal.

Story<\/strong>
The story of this game will take place in an alternative setting of our world. Far in the future of 2100, when the sun suddenly begins to shrink rapidly, the world is beginning to sink into an infinite wintery night. Civilizations were advanced enough to be able to adapt to the changing weather, but its never easy to live in a world with so little heat energy. You may have all the technology in the world, but you cannot sustain it without proper energy sources. With all the world’s energy sources nearly exhausted, nations are beginning to slowly collapse. 20 years later, a very rare crystallized mineral classified as “REIC”(Radiant Enhanced Induction Catalyst) began to form on the barren wasteland due to current environmental conditions. When combined with human blood, it not only gives them life-sustaining energy, but also super human-abilities (strength, speed, perception, healing). However, not all good things come without a cost, using REIC makes the user entirely dependent on it to survive. With no other choice, the last remaining remanence of human life must ultimately depend on these minerals to survive.

In 2125, with the world slowly dying to the cold, the main character is struggling to keep her family alive. While out on a hunt to find food, she is soon trapped in a blizzard and is forced to take shelter. With no reliable way to generate heat, she will die from hypothermia. Luckily for her, she find a single REIC node in which she uses out of desperation. Unknown to her did this start a chain of dreary events forcing her to become a slave to REIC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview and Concept Sketch<\/strong>
This game will be an anime-style, exploratory rogue-like game. Traverse through the world, raid corrupt corporations, and ultimately find a way to cure your attachment to REIC. The intended audience is for anyone interested in an anime-style game, but also appealing to anyone who loves playing a hack-and-slash style of game (in addition to it being rouge like).
Combat will be fairly complex and allow a multitude of different combinations and abilities to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simple Concept Sketch
I will do Character and Weapon Concept Sketches later<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Gameplay Mechanics and Objectives<\/strong>
The gameplay mechanic will be a somewhat fast, hack-and-slash style of combat. Think of games like Dark Souls with its distinct slower style of combat, but add what a fast pace game like Final Fantasy. To complement it, there will be a three-weapon level of combinations (depending on difficulty of animating, I may relatively shorten attack combos -> Good example of why this can work is Genshin Impact’s fairly simplistic combat). The first two weapons are transformative style weapons altering between a katana\/one-hand light attacks and transforming into a heavier weapon (2-Handed). The third is a unique, REIC generated “energy cube particles” ranged attack that floats around the playable character and shoots an “elemental attack”. As this is a combat game, it is best to put a 3rd Person perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objective of the game will be to find REIC (to keep your character alive), stay alive as long as you can, and try to reach the end.
Levels and world can be different each run with a special item system called “Triggers” which can give different abilities, as well a a multitude of different weapons and items to assist your character. <\/p>\n\n\n\n