Graphics + HCD

These are really time consuming. I did a few that are detailed-ish, and now I'm wondering if that was a bad idea because now I have to draw the rest the same way!

Character graphics:
*Guiwui (witch)
*Guiwui (when she's a frog)
*Olivia (Queen of Spades)
*Raphael (Ace of Spades)
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and more...

Location/Level Art Concept Sketches:
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I'd say my HCD is about 50% complete. I have to think through some parts of my gameplay, and re-do some things like the HUD, menu screen flow stuff?
I'm thinking of reducing the number of NPCs in the game.

WIP Story walkthrough (very rough)

• David (main character, playable character) wakes up outside a crumbling fortress called Spades City (the player may rename this city).






• David has no memory of how he got there or where he is.






• A figure approaches him, a middle age-looking man on crutches. He demands to know who this kid is and how he appeared out of nowhere. Upon hearing David's name he demands that he follow him. The man leads David into the castle, through to the throne room and has him speak before a skunk sitting in the throne.






• The man presents David to a skunk sitting on the throne, and introduces him to the animal. Addressing it as the Queen of Spades.
  The skunk speaks, freaking David out. The Queen informs David that he is dead, he is in purgatory, and that he is the King of Spades. This freaks David out more. He faints. David is a timid boy.






• David has a few flashes of memory. He's in the back seat of a car with someone beside him. He can't see faces, he can't see the cars details, he can't see outside the car. He wakes up. The QOS (Queen of Spades) is standing over him (kind of. She's a skunk afterall).






• The QOS, David, and the injured man, who the QOS refers to as Raphael and is infact the Jack of Spades (JOS) talk for a bit. They understand that David has lost his memory, which is apparently an unsurprising condition of the recently deceased. They inform David that his memories will gradually return, or if he wishes he can return to Earth to find out. But first, they will return to him his past memories of being the King of Spades.






• The QOS & JOS continue on to explain how their houses work, their placement in the world.*[See bottom for furter details]
  The King of Diamonds has formed an alliance with the King of Clubs to conquer all the other kingdoms in Purgatory(Spades, Hearts). The kingdom of Spades fell quickly without David the King of Spades to fight. The JOS had been fighting for the Spades kingdom but fell. The QOS tells David he must regain the memories from his past life, assume the throne, and fight back. His first course of action would be to approach the King of Hearts and their house for help. The House of Spades had previous alliances, but when David disappeared they did not know he had been reincarnated - it was not his "time". The alliances were broken when there was no King of Spades. David will have to reforge them.






• There are two parallel stories in the game. Sometimes David is able to return to Earth when he is dreaming on Purgatory. He can hear someone talking to him, but can't see who. The voice sounds familiar though...






• Part of the Spades Kingdom is under Diamond occupation. The King of Spade's Crown and Sceptre were confiscated by the King of Diamonds, and kept under guard in the Spades castle. David's first mission is to retrieve the crown and sceptre.






• David sneaks past guards to reclaim the treasures, but the crown is missing. With just the sceptre back he remembers glimpses of his past life as the King of Spades. It is revealed (from David's memories) that the crown and sceptre were designed to return David's memories whenever he is reincarnated, dies and returns to Purgatory. This part of the story now enables fighting/magic.
  David now recalls figures around the world of Purgatory, and the names if characters are reveaked. The QOS name is Olivia, who was reincarnated as a skunk due to bad karma, and the injured JOS is Raphael, who hasn't been reincarnated in [a very long time, no idea how long. Not working to deep on the history of Purgatory].






• David's next course of action is to approach the King of Hearts, Charlie.
  To get to the Hearts Garden (kingdom of hearts) he must fight his way through some lands in Purgatory. To do that, he must reform one of his alliances. The QOS tells David that the easiest alliance to reform will probably be THE PIXIES [or faries, I can't decide yet, probably have to research a bit]. David will have to return to the human world.






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*Purgatory (world)
Purgatory is the name of the "land" which is divided into four kingdoms, each ruled by a king. This land is a place where the dead go to kill time, either waiting to be sent to their heaven or hell (depending on their religion, or something, I don't want this to be a religiously accurate game though), or if they're left waiting too long they are sometimes reborn.

UDK Level design

This game is going to have a few levels/locations, but the one I've decided to build is the Cemetary!

[sketch from today here]

Will build it using the latest version of UDK (July 2011 UDK Beta).

EDIT:

IT DID NOT SAVE. Cry...
UDK crashed as I tried to save it, and not even my safety saves survived? Grrr.

Here's a sketch of the church. wuu.

Update 02

Update 01

Day 1

We were given our assignment a week ago, but today was the first day that I actually made any progress.

I've got a WIP story and ideas for HUDs, weapons, a level, and stuff.
Doodled a lot of crap which I will scan an upload here later.