{"id":309,"date":"2020-10-27T20:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T00:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b20\/?p=309"},"modified":"2020-11-11T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:45:10","slug":"hannah-belans-game-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b20\/hmbelan\/hannah-belans-game-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Belan’s Game Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While I don\u2019t have a full image of what I want for this game I see it centering around a personal character of mine named December. He is part of a series of characters that I have been drawing since middle school that are the personifications of the extremer feelings present throughout the year due to my seasonal affective disorder. While I am not sure I will pull in all my month characters, I do know I want December and June to be major characters. I think that the game itself will take place in a snowy New England home as well as the surrounding land during a blizzard. The mechanics of the game would mostly be walking, collecting notes and memorabilia, and conversing with characters. Rather than being a skill-based game with shooting or fighting, I would rather focus on a story-driven \u201cadventure\u201d style game, where the player is meant to go through the world seeing it in December\u2019s eyes. Key objects in the game would be the notes and memorabilia of happiness, things that remind December that good times still happen, that happiness comes and goes, and that it will be okay. While the game won\u2019t be particularly thrilling, I want it to focus on the lonesome feelings that tend cloud the winters for me, but also end on a hopeful feeling for the future, maybe ending the level with December and June talking, breaking the blizzard and warming the scene a bit. The intended audience for this game would be those who need a reminder that the loneliness will end, that they are not alone even in the deepest of winters, and that spring will always be waiting on the other end of the storm.
The game\u2019s art style is meant to be a mostly drab setting with a limited cooler color palette to match the mood of the piece. As for lights and shadows, I want the scene to feel a bit overexposed and undersaturated, keeping the lights light and the darks in more of a mid-toned palette. While I find that depression can often be shown as desolate darkness and deep tones, I tend to see it as more of the blinding lights and general lack of color. In this particular depiction, I would like the field of view to be blurred by the snow whipping around December, textures to be softened and blurred, and shapes to be hard and ridged to balance out the softness of the textures and colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some general really rough concept sketches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This represents a really rough layout of the map for the level<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is a sketch of the main character<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This sketch goes over more of the softly textured lightly colored vibe I wish to achieve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mood Board Time!!!
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