This document provides details about the final major project for a freelance role developing a character for the game Rome X. It includes background on the game being a futuristic role-playing adventure set in Rome. It also outlines inspiration from games like Ryse: Son of Rome and research on target audiences and styles from films like Gladiator. Concept art and drawings are presented showing a warrior character design with classic Roman armor but incorporating some futuristic weapon elements like energy shields to blend the historical and sci-fi elements.

1. Final Major Project
Callum Drake

2. Scenario
• Scenario
• I have been working as a freelancer and have been asked
to conceive, design and produce the main character for
Rockstar Games’ new title, Rome X. The game is set in a
futuristic Rome and is a role playing/adventure 3rd
person shooter.
I will write a profile for the game and character, which
will be used to create a design pack using hand-drawn
artwork, which will be developed into a 3D model of the
character.

3. The Game Introduce
Rome X is a free massively-multiplayer strategy game (mmo).It takes only 3 minutes to learn, and is
extremely fun!
Slaves’ riot led by Spartacus broke out and ravaged throughout the Roman Empire. Senatus sent the
legendary general Caesar to suppress the rebellion, but the shadow of suspicion stirred situation, and
the new flame of war ignited and raging over the country. You must pick a side in this troubled time,
build up your own city, recruit an undefeatable army of veteran soldiers and celebrated generals, and
bring peace again to this ancient land.
Presented in fantastic graphics, Rome is a historical multiplayer war game you can enjoy in its depth of
strategies, abundant elementals of units, equipment's, and futuristic style and weaponry.
• Features
• - User friendly guidance helping you learn the game in extremely short time.
• - Thrilling and interesting historical quests.
• - Fantastic graphics restoring the original history.
• - Regular updates totally free of charge.
• - Fighting with thousands of players!
• - Siding with Spartacus, Senatus, or Caesar, and leading their unique units and heroes.
• - Deep strategy including constructions, researches, troop training, equipment forging, etc.
• - Uniting your friends to form a great alliance legion!
• - Live chat with many channels making full interaction and communication!

4. Inspiration
• Inspiration:
Ryse: Son of Rome and Total War: Rome II were the two
games that inspired me to create this game other things
such as films like 300 and Troy and Gladiator also inspired
me to do this. The reason why I wanted to create a Rome
game but futuristic is because I enjoy watching those style
of films where it is set in the past and shows you what is
was like back then and how they struggled and fort for
empires between other army’s and countries.
The futuristic style that I wanted came across ideas from
films such as Avatar and Star Wars where they have
weapons that aren’t from this time. Also with the space
ships and shuttles I wanted them to be in Rome but to
match the style Rome was in.

5. Target Audience
The target audience for my game I went of for the audience of roman films
such as Gladiator, Troy, Spartacus. The audience will be targeted around 16+
year olds as it will contain strong language and scenes of a sexual nature.
I carried this out by reviewing certain games around the 16+ year old market
and a lot had to say that they didn’t find it that strong within he game and
didn’t understand why it was high age rated, but then others said it should be
18+ rated because of the sexual matter and the gore that was in the game.
I decided to keep it at 16+ because, although it has some gore in it when
killing other people and strong language with sexual nature in it, there wasn’t
that much to complain. I also wanted to keep it at 16+ because a lot of
teenage boys love killing games and games that have violence in them
meaning the sales will go up if the age is lowered.

6. Market Research

8. Here are some of the building ideas that will be in
the game, I want to keep the structure and style of
the Roman empire back then still in the game but
add a futuristic touch to the buildings such as
invisible defences and unbreakable structures.
A lot of the building designs within the game will be designed around he roman period
exactly the same as back then. I will be adding a few touches towards the setting and style
of the land so that it fits in with the scenario.

9. Here are some of the design research that I
carried out to create this character, I wanted to
keep the armour design like a roman without the
futuristic style added to it. I wanted the armour
to be a ‘high in power’ suit like a general or a
leader of some sort. I didn’t want the armour to
be too big or heavy for the character or even too
massively detailed, I wanted to keep to the
roman look.

10. These are the kind of ideas that I
wanted my character to have such
as the weaponry, including some
weapons from the past added with
a future touch to it, such as a bora
sword with a spirit shield making
the character look more interesting
and better.

11. Here are two drawings showing what kind of idea I want my warrior to like, going for a
classic roman look but with added futuristic style such as padding on the armour in the
first one.

12. Here are some of the drawings of the
weapons that will be used in the game, they
have the old roman look but with a future
design to it such as spirit shield.
Here are some of the drawings of the
armour that will be included with the
game, it also has a Roman style but I
wanted to keep the armour fully
roman and nothing futuristic.