The first thing we did as a team was sit down and discuss the key componants of the game, and the things we wanted for it. These are in the below list:

• 2.5D Game

  • The camera is fixed like a side-scroller, but the game-world is 3D​

    • The player can interact with certain objects to delve further back into the level​

  • Third person, semi disconnected camera

• PC game

  • Unity game engine

• Win condition: Reach the top of the mountain

• The phases

  • Sea - Sunken city potentially as a setting

  • Sky - Avoid high rising obsticles such as trees and cliffs

  • Mountain - Start in a wooded area and climb your way up

• Artstyle: TO BE DECIDED

• Core asthetic focus: Swarm/creature movement

• Mechcanics: Move, collect swarm, move into "barriers"

• Sound design: To be discussed, dynamic soundtrack (edited)

  • Each level has music that matches its theme, that gets more dramatic as the swarm grows or in proximity to the predator ​

• Visual design: Focus on simple shapes to see from a long distance

  • Low poly artstyle​

• Key experience: Able to explore a gather a swarm, avoiding dangers in the meantime when you are alone

• Character design: Robot, one aquatic based, one air based, one mountain based

  • Some kind of fish that forms a shoal​

  • Small flocking bird

  • Non-predatory land mammal

• Level design: Between real and fantastical, "post apocalyptic" design

  • Will experiment with art styles and settings in the future​