Week 20

Whats the Concept Behind this?

The first thing to tackle in any environmental concept is the feel of the level. Is it realistic or stylised? Is it moody and mysterious or happy and bright? Where does the journey lead the character and what kind of genre would it fit into? 

These are the questions as a group we have been answering this week. As of yet the style of the level isn't nailed down but we all have some strong ideas to represent Alice.

Some of us want a more realistic approach while others want a heavily stylized approach. This is causing some issues in nailing the concepts too. We all roughly know what we want out of the level, including which parts of the book we're involving in our game. However as of yet the one style to rule them all has not been found.

To help us in our quest to find the golden style, we have white boxed out the level idea. Using this we're all painting over it in different ways, to try and show others what we're thinking of for our game. This has proved very helpful and Braden has become chief gray-scale paint-over man and somehow I've been nominated as colour all the things gal. This was a task that I've never considered myself at being that strong with, however I really feel I have taken it in my stride and rode into battle with colour on my side for once.

And so the tale of paint-over Braden and colour it please Fred has begun... or at least for the next week or so it has. I must admit our journey through wonderland has been wonderful so far.