Ben Dix is enthusiastic about creating a video game for the project but is concerned about the timescale. He thinks an RPG would work well given the flexibility. From experiments, he is good at animations. Potential ideas include RPG, side scroller, or bullet hell game. For an RPG, he maps out a fantasy world divided into sky city, forest, water, mountain, and lava lands. Classes would include knight, mage, engineer and ranger. Battles would use third-person perspective while overworld uses top-down. A mood board focuses on vibrant colors to influence landscapes and enemies. A schedule is set with tasks like animation, music, and evaluation. Sources for research include video games like Moonlighter and

1. Initial Plans
Ben Dix

2. Initial Reaction
• My initial reactions to the brief is that I’m quite
enthusiastic to the idea of giving free reign to create
a video game, although the timescale is rather
concerning as I may not be able to complete the
project to the scope and scale that I would ideally
reach. Currently ,from a majority of my ideas, I think I
could make some form of RPG as that gives many
options for different styles and themes in colour
schemes and world building. From the production
experiments I think that I’ll be good at working the
general flow of the animations.

3. Mind Map
Potential
ideas
RPGSide
scroller
Bullet
hell
Fantasy and or tech based
aesthetic
The colour scheme will
be a mix of muted
shades and vibrant
primary colours
Traditional turn
based mechanics
for battles
Could be more traditional
or with mainly puzzle
solving elements
Enemies would
generally be more
fantastical monsters
Main character would have
some ability (time travel,
duplication, etc) which would
add to traversing the level
and puzzle
Noir esk colour
scheme with one or
two accent colours
Sci-fi setting/
themes
80’s neon colour
scheme
Conventional vertical
bullet hell with waves of
enemies ended with a
boss that you chip away
as
Play as a small
space ship
against larger
,fleshy styled,
enemies
Collectibles are hidden
throughout the level,
giving the user a higher
completion record

4. Mind Map
RPG
Overview/
premise
settlement of people that
have been living in the
sky after being forced to
by growing force of
monsters, attempt to
reclaim the ground layer
of the world
The player plays as
one of the force sent
to reclaim the
surface and picks
from a selection of
classes; the classes
that are not chosen
are give to the rest
of the force
World/
environments
The world will be set up
into five segments:
• Sky city, acting as a hub
world/ shop: where the
tech/ fantasy elements
meet
• Forest lands, acts as a
starting level and will be
foggy and dark whilst
still having vibrant
elements In other
places,
• Water lands, second level
adds a puzzle involving
water currents from rivers
• mountain lands, third level,
player finds ancient tech
based vehicle and uses to
traverse the environment
• Lava lands has a more geyser
like feel to it, final level of the
game, ; area where the
monsters are summoned from
Enemies are themed
off the environment
they are in
Classes include
knight, mage,
engineer and ranger
Mechanics
During the overworld
camera will be of a top
down perspective
Battles are formed when
making contact with an
enemy, during battles
camera is over the shoulder
third person
After battles players earn
Xp which is used to level
up attributes, and the
items sold for gold to buy
better equipment

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board Analysis
Is there any repetition in the images you have collected?
Repeated colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood
• The majority of my images focus on vibrant and accentuated colour
scheme with fewer darker shades to highlight the brighter colours. I also
noticed that the landscapes were all exaggerated and have a heavy fantasy
feel
How will your mood board influence your final product?
• My mood bored will influence the art style of the five landscapes noted in
the prior mind map as well as the enemies fought in those locations

7. Schedule
WEEK OVERALL PLAN SPECIFIC TASKS
1 Production Experiments,
Initial Response, Product
Research
 Make test animations of games
 Make test game music
 Complete initial plans and production
experiment PowerPoint
2 Product Research, Proposal,
Planning
 fill out the specific forms from
blackboard
3 Production  draw necessary elements
 Begin animation
4 Production  Finish animation
 Create music piece for animation
5 Evaluation  clean up any outstanding production
work
 Finish evaluation
 Upload work to blogger

8. Bibliography
• Name at least 7 sources that you plan to use in this project. These should include audience
research, books, videos/films/video games, magazines and newspaper articles etc.
1. Digital sun. (2018) Moonlighter
2. .Square Enix (1990) final fantasy 3
3. .Enix (1986) Dragon Quest
4. .Capcom (1995) Megaman 7
5. .Capcom(1986) Megaman 2
6. .Devolver Digital(2016) Enter the gungeon
7. .Audience research task