Week 3 Characters And Story

B00219590 09/10/12

Characters And Story

Our main topic of discussion this week was character development and story as described to us in the lecture. Starting with story, we already knew some minor points about our story like it being set in space in The Artesian galaxy while there was some type of conflict going on but this week we were going to try and beef the story up. None of what we talked about is set in stone because we want our game to have a very fleshed out and detailed story so one minor change would mean we would have to rethink the whole story meaning we need to be careful about what we make permanent.

Moving on to characters for a moment, We now agree on having three different playable characters each with their own backstory and each with somewhat different storyline but have them crossing paths multiple times during the course of the game. Two of these characters will be alien and one will be a human giving the player some choice. One of the aliens will be enslaved and then breaks free, the other alien could possibly be the enslaved races enslavers (not decided) while the human race will be a mercenary doing a job that in some way involves the other races.

Back to story, we have been thinking about how the conflict started , whose it between and what is there to gain from it. An idea that we came up with is that the slave race is revolting and so a sort of civil war begins and because the enslavers need the precious resources that the slaved race gather the war has a bigger impact on both races, the human race could be sent in favouring no particular side this could be chosen by the player. The goal of the game can change depending on character, for instance the slave races goal could be to free their race from oppression while the aggressive race could be set on becoming a general in there army.

Near the end of our discussion the three of us each picked a race and tried to find some source material to better show how our characters are going to look. I chose the human race character, although this is the easiest to find pictures of there has still to be parameters, the character is to be a mercenary so he has to look tough but not so much that its comical, He has a dark past so this could be shown on his face. I found images that interested me and made a collab of them. i will try and find a way to put it on here.