Design Document

For the current project brief I will be working in a group of four to create a design document for a game based of a particular point or event in history.

The prepare for the project my group and I went to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.

While there we took a number of photographs and had a close look at the sculptures on display, the tribal figurines, sculptures and sculptures particularly caught our attention and inspired a few ideas in us.

We were interested by the strange stylistic aesthetic that a lot of the tribal sculptures possessed, they looked almost alien, like they weren't based on humans at all but were based on some strange alien creatures. We began thinking about the possibility of an alternate universe where perhaps tribal groups were directly influenced by aliens and were a significant part of their culture, resulting in the tribes creating sculpture depicting them.

I tried to take this Idea and think of how I could incorporate this story element into gameplay, My initial idea was to have a game where the enemies of a level were tribal followers of the aliens, with the aliens being the boss of each level, each level would be taking out a tribal group and then finally their alien deity, almost like a crusade. The player would play as one of the tribal groups, which could be chosen, depending on which tribal group is chosen would affect gameplay and the available power-ups and weapons.

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