The game that I\u2019m creating is an exploration game set underwater, where an octopus works for a pizza shop in order to pay their mortgage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three characters that the player will see in the game are the octopus, the Home Loan Shark, and the owner of the pizza shop. The player takes the role of a broke octopus with a really cool hat, who needs to pay back the home loan shark before he evicts the octopus from their den. The octopus finds a job collecting ingredients and delivering food for a local undersea pizza joint. The pizza shop is owned by a shrimp who is very surly and rude. The Home Loan Shark is basically just a shark in a suit who has it out for the octopus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game takes place underwater in a bright coral reef. The weather will be sunny, making the ocean easily viewable and explorable, while making the bright colors of the coral pop. I want the game world to feel expansive and large, with lots of nooks and crannies to explore \u2013 dense enough to want to explore, but not too dense that it limits movement. Through exploration, the octopus will be able to find ingredients for the pizzas, which they can bring back to the pizza shop to make money. Additionally, if time allows, I\u2019d love for there to be multiple hats that the octopus can find and equip. For the pizza shop, I want it to feel like an old 1960\u2019s New York pizza shop \u2013 small and cute, with checkered floors, cheap tables and chairs, with just an oven and countertop behind the register. If time allows, I\u2019d love to add more locations to explore, maybe creating a dense seaweed forest, a cave system, or an artificial reef made from a sunken ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main items that the player will be interacting with are the pizza ingredients littered around the environment. They will have to search for the hidden items in denser or more remote regions of the ocean. I want to add a bunch of different ingredients, and reuse them somewhat infrequently, creating a sense of variety and uniqueness to the pizza toppings. Outside of that, I may implement a coin system where the octopus can collect coins to buy upgrades from a separate vendor, but I feel it may be out of scope for this project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want the style of the game to be low-poly, cute, silly, and bright. I think creating a low-poly experience will both cater to me as an inexperienced modeler, and help create more of a casual and cute vibe. I want the world to feel welcoming, fun, and rife with adventure. I really want the water to resemble other games like Subnautica and Abzu \u2013 bright and blue, the type you wanna dive in and drink. I would also like the game to feel safe for the player, not having them fearing the octopus getting eaten. I think by having few other animals in the ocean and making sure that the octopus is the biggest creature the player sees while exploring would create a more nurturing vibe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gameplay will be focused around exploration and movement. I want the player to be driven to collect all the toppings that they can, while also having the experience of moving around the environment be fun on its own. Within the pizza shop, I would like for the gameplay to feel like talking to merchants in games, with a still camera and menu options. I think a third-person perspective would be best for the game, letting the player see a larger portion of the environment and the items they can collect. I hope the experience will be a fun, medium-paced, relaxed experience for the player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The game that I\u2019m creating is an exploration game set underwater, where an octopus works for a pizza shop in order to pay their mortgage. The three characters that the player will see in the game are the octopus, the Home Loan Shark, and the owner of the pizza shop. The player takes the role… <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2024\/10\/ReferenceArt.png\")
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