Time to rethink our idea... (09.12.13)

Due to recent events it was decided that we should reconsider our game to a different play style. We have techniqually restarted our project but bringing forth our previous concepts and designs.We are going to incoporate some of the  previous ideas into our new game but with a different gameplay.


This is our brief:

Puzzle Game:

The main gameplay idea we have is to teach the player not to jump to conclusions about the first way they can tackle the puzzles. Although it may seem simple at first, it turns about to be a little bit more complicated; a process of finding leavers and moving obstacles may have to be discovered first before they can complete the puzzle.

Playing with the players mind:

We still want to work with the idea of the girl trapped in an alien industrial farming complex, however the story starts out with the girl falling asleep, and the game starts in a ‘dream world’ but the player doesn’t know this is a dream. You have to complete certain tasks/ puzzle in order to escape. However when you do finally escape it turns out that she has awoken from this dream, and she is in fact still stuck in the cage.

 

Our design is to be very clean and to create simple puzzles for the player to complete.

 

 

This is the kind of style we want to go for, a clean a crisp style although we shall consider adding in dirty and broken down areas to create different effects and to tackle emotion.

 

 

 

This is a simple map layout with very simple structures that we could incorporate such as alternate rooms to collect objects to allow you to pass current rooms.

 

 

 

 A few level designs and strategies; the top image shows the need to move the box to get out the facility and that the lever is on the other side. The second image then shows an obsticle in the way i.e. need to be another platform to help you cross, and the last image shows the solution to get to the other side.

 

 

This is a concept of an alternate style we could persue with an old styled wooden shafts and dirty floors, with crates and containers.

 

 

Script:

 

Girl: (could be echo distorted)

 

''Where am I?''

''AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!'' - Scream

''What is this place?''

''Huh?'' - shock

''Maybe the lever on the other side of the room might do something...'' - monotone (hint)

''What does that orb do?'' - monotone (hint)

''Get me out of this place!'' - panic

''We are trapped in here like animals...'' - monotone (hidden meaning)

''I might have to try a different approach...'' - Questioning

''Maybe there is another way?...'' - Questioning

''(Grunts and moans)''

 

Story/scenes (monotone - talking to self): ''I have been trapped here since I can remember... What does the sun look like? I can't remember it... That man has tried to escape before. Many of us have, many have failed...They keep us in these cages, and when someone leaves, they don't come back. This is what they mark us with, this strange symbol. What does it mean?... Oh thank god its gone... It left the cage open! Nows my chance...''

 

 

 

Other prisoner:

 

''What do you want from me?'' - Anger

''HELP ME!'' - scream of terror

''AHHHHHHHH!!'' scream

''Get off me you overgrown chicken!'' - anger and scared

''Wake up'' - mono

''Over here'' - wisper

''(Grunts and moans)''

 

 

 

Other sounds/noises:

 

Predator cracking noises

Platapus noise

Chicken noise

Footsteps/Stomps

Chains

Bars rattle

Snapping

Machinery

Creepy laugh (prisoner)

Whispers (prisoners)

Pick up and Throw test.

I have recently been working on getting a pick up object script and a throw script to work for our light orbs. To test out the necessary scripts and such I created a new Unity Project, just incase I ran in to any major problems, I did not want it to mess up our main Unity file. I also wanted to go in depth with this test to prove to myself that I am capable of doing things such as this! so that I will not have to rely on Playmaker.

In the first screen shot, I have done it so you can see the basic test scene that I have created. Over on the right hand side you can see the three scripts that I have used, the first one is the Object Properties script, which is in C#, this script is attached to the object that you want to pick up. For this script to work, the object needed a collider so that the character controller could be able to pick it up, it also needed a rigid body component added to it. The next script is another C# script, this is attached to the character controller which enables it to be able to pick up the object when the player presses the 'f' key, as well as being able to throw the object when the player clicks the left mouse button. The final script is Javascript, this is also on the character controller, and this controls the power in which the object is thrown by the character. I still need to tweak the power in which the object is being thrown, because at the moment it is too powerful.

The bottom screenshot shows the character controller holding the object (I could not print screen the throw action because it disappeared before I could!!).

Human Modelling

03.12.13

Today I have worked on creating human typology starting from a basic mesh. I have been refering back to Autodesk's human mesh so as to help me with typology. I had a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to get the arm's typology trying to get the edge loops to match up with the rest of the muscle movement and anatomy.

04.12.13

Further typology has been added to the model to enhance the muscular structure to the body. I have added extra-edge loops to keep the model fairly even with the polys but also keeping in mind to keep it low on the polys. I now need to work on the final touches to the arms such as muscle and hands. I also need to create the head and improve typology around the neck and chest.

05.12.13

Today I finished off the legs by retopolgizing the knee caps and the formation around it. I then tightened up the rest of the torso by adding in more polys to give it a smoother shape. I added extra edge loops around the neck to help the movement to the neck muscle and shoulder as well as adding form to the face. I found great difficultied in trying to reconstruct the face in the way that typology will effect the the muscle movement and figure of the characters face.

06.01.14

As the new year starts I continue to model my human, I managed to complete the hand and attach it to the body, as well as producing an ear. The ear was very tricky, notheless I managed to get the shape in and attached to the head. I then spent a while re-typologising around the ears so that they fit on the body well, with very few triangles.

Processing Room - Few Assets Added

Today I started putting the assets that have already been made by Toop and Joe in to the Unity project to see how things looked, and to scale them if needed. Below is a print screen of the conveyor belt and the meat hooks, along with the cooker. This isn't how it will look for the final thing, but it's just to give us a quick idea of how things will look and if we want to change bits, or add anything further.

 

 

When the player walks around the processing room, it will not be as lit as this. It will be much much darker, which is why they will have the light orb as a source of light to navigate their way around. 

Cage models

The plane in the background is a test to check the texture on it is seamless, its getting there but isn't quite right. This cage is based on the style of cage used for battery hens which would be wall mounted and stacked up on the wall which would give an imposing feeling.

As we aren't 100% if this type of cage will be included I've quickly done a basic texture over it and more detail can be added into it later. As the other idea is to have more box like cages for the AI to patrol around I will make one of these as well and we can decide which we will use

Here is a cage model, again I've used the unfinished texture from before. When said texture is finished with proper tiling, added decals and specular maps I will update this and the other model which will improve their appearance. For now this will do for checking it works in Unity.

Monster Character 3

This week I've being sculpting this and trying to figure out how to normal map, retopolgize and poly paint.
Next step would be to  actually start retopologizing and baking normal maps to the low poly model and start poly painting in ZBrush. FYI this is the high poly model and he is 6 feet tall, and I imagine the other characters are going to be around about 6.5 feet - 7 feet tall.