Research for Group Ideas

For our asset pack project, our group’s initial ideas were to base our game in a dystopian environment to suit the post-apocalyptic genre we are combining with ancient Japanese. So we decided to use a sand-covered dystopia where people would struggle to get water and food and dangers would hide beneath the sand. Here are a few images that inspired us;

We also wanted to include people of this time to be separated into tribes and fight for their tribe’s survival. Almost as if people have gone backwards in time to the stone age. We also wanted to create torn down buildings, houses made of scrap metal and anything survivors could find. We needed weapons and tools relative to their time and situation too.

Here is some image research based on tribal-esque and Japanese weaponry.

I was thinking of referencing some areas around the world, such as the slums from Brazil to use as an example of desperation people are experiencing in this time.

For this blog, I used some secondary research, images from the internet that were most popular and used them as inspiration or a way of explaining and representing the ideas my group had. I think that we will have to adapt these images in our own way more when it comes to the environmental design. The terrain should be barren and almost alien-like to the human eye. If our environment is very similar to real life places and situations such as the image above, I don’t think the scene will be as interesting.

Conclusion

We have used many images to help inspire us and help us create ideas for our asset pack. We have used real-world examples and fictional examples from games. Our asset pack is going to be a bit dark and depressing. People are the worst they’ve ever been before and survival is a daily challenge. However, as a group we have not put a lot of our resources into research. Many of our ideas have been from our own thought processes and/or spontaneous suggestions.