First post!

This is my development blog for our game in the course DH2650 Computer Game Design.

 After the first meeting we had a few game ideas. Before the meeting some of the others had brainstormed a bit, and now we were gonna come up with a few concrete ideas. Our two main ideas were a apocalyptic plattformer/puzzle game or a 3rd person mining game that we dubbed to Alaskan gold miner, where a man with a price on his head had escaped to the alaskan wilderness in order to mine gold and pay of his depts. It quickly seemed like the Alaskan Gold Minser would be our main project, and the other idea was disgarded. My part was to create some concept art and help with the story.

This is the quick story outline i threw together. Warning, spoliers:

"The world economy has collapsed.

The nations of the world is in shambles.

Alone, one man travels to the Alaskan outback in search for salvation. He has debts to pay, and it's time for one last job. In search for gold he must dare the dangers that lies deep in the Alaskan wilderness. He will need to brave gigantic bears, Russian super-spies, landsharks and bounty hunters from his creditors, in order to get the gold that will buy him his life back, and get the world economy back in order. "

My main contributions to the idea was that i wanted some absurd humor in the game, i thought that would be a more uniqe selling point. So i added the idea of a absurdly big hostile bear chasing you, and the possability of a landshark. One of the others suddgested that the bear should be working for the russians.

So, on that note, here follows some concept art i made for the game. I first made some simple drawings;

 Here  on the left is a angry evil bear. Simple enough.


On the right here, we see a early idea of how we would designate the bear as russian; We would simply give it a classical russian furhat with the sojvet insignia on it.















Both on the right and left here. we can see early ideas for how i thought the protaganist would look. I for some reason thought it would be funnier if he looked like a hard and cold gunslinger, a real Clint Eastwood kind of deal.







On the left here we see another russian bear, this time with arms. Bear faces/heads were suprisingly hard to draw, it was something off with their mouths.

On the right here, we see my first idea for the russian soldiers. They too would wear a furhat of the sojvet designation, and they would also wear a scarf around their mouths, becasue russians are ofcourse always dressed for cold weather. How else would you know they were russian?

Down here below you see the super-giant russian bear, towering over the tree tops, with a cowboy miner for scale. Turns out perspective on arms is as hard to draw as bear heads.

Finally here we have the dreaded Landshark™. The genetic blend between the top predators from both land and sea. Im of course talking about the horrific Great White Shark, and the infamous (INSERT GENERIC LARGE CARNIVOROUS DINOSAURS HERE). Scientifically made to be the top of ANY foodchain.