{"id":487,"date":"2022-10-28T21:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T01:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b22\/?p=487"},"modified":"2022-10-28T22:57:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T02:57:56","slug":"aaron-waldman-game-concept-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b22\/awaldman\/aaron-waldman-game-concept-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Waldman Game Concept Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genre: first person shooter<\/span><\/p>\n

Backstory: the year is 2300. Artificial intelligence has advanced beyond human intelligence, and now robots are the dominant species, and the humans live in exile. You play as the leader of the human resistance force and you are infiltrating the main robot base to take down their control hub and restore humanity back to its former glory. You must use your laser gun to defend yourself from the robot guards that patrol the facility.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gameplay:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You must explore the sprawling robot facility, defeating all the robots in each room with your laser gun. Your gun runs on batteries, so after a short duration it will run out of power, and you must keep collecting batteries to power it up again. The robots drop batteries when they die, and there are battery pickups scattered throughout the facility. You can also perform a melee attack regardless of whether your gun has power, so you\u2019re not just stuck if you run out of power sources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There will be a few different types of enemy robots: a robot that fires laser projectiles out of its eyes, a robot that has a melee attack, and a final boss robot with multiple different attacks. If I have time, there will also be other enemies like a flying robot and a turret that cannot move.<\/span><\/p>\n

The artstyle will be cartoony and stylized, and the mood will be somewhat comedic (it\u2019s 3 centuries in the future and guns still need AA batteries!) to contrast with the dark apocalyptic premise. The setting will be a brightly lit, well-maintained industrial facility, so all the walls and floors will be metal tiles and there will be blinking control panels and computer screens everywhere (which the robots use to spy on and control humanity).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My target audience is people who are fans of robot apocalypse movies like Terminator and fast-paced shooters like Doom and Quake. The player character will have a fast movement speed and the enemies\u2019 attacks will all be dodge-able (projectiles rather than hitscan) to encourage the player to constantly be moving rather than hiding behind cover. The limited battery time further encourages the player to move fast and kill enemies fast.<\/span><\/p>\n

The color palette of the environment will be mostly whites and grays, emphasizing how cold and unfeeling the robots are, while the robots themselves will have glowing red eyes and each enemy type will be a different primary color so that the player can easily distinguish between them at a glance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Concept art:<\/span><\/p>\n

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References:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shows what I want the robot combat to look like<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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laser gun inspiration 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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laser gun inspiration 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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robot firing a laser projectile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the enemy robots will probably look something like this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the final boss will be tall and intimidating, like this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the robot base will be very futuristic and sterile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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robot base hallways will look somewhat like this (but probably simpler)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the batteries will just look like standard AA batteries (except floating and rotating like all good game pickups do)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maybe as a stretch goal the boss will have shoulder-mounted rocket launchers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genre: first person shooter Backstory: the year is 2300. Artificial intelligence has advanced beyond human intelligence, and now robots are the dominant species, and the humans live in exile. You play as the leader of the human resistance force and you are infiltrating the main robot base to take down their control hub and restore… <\/p>\n

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