Initial sketches

These five pictures are my basic drawings and designs for my project.

1. Ships

The first sketch is the exterior of where the level will take place. The initial design for this ship was based on the real life company UPS. My reasoning for this was that even in the future big companies may still be around. Companies such as UPS and FedEx, which specialise in postal delivery, would require cargo vessels to have access customers that are not located on their planet.

The second vessel was designed to look like a pirate ship. I gave it the visible hull plating and oversized weapons to give the impression that this ship was thrown together in a rush from random pieces of scrap to allow the alien pirates to plunder bigger ships with more valuable cargo, much like pirates used to do.

2. Enemies

The Third sketch is my initial design for the main boss of my level. I gained inspiration for this design from a scyth. The legs are kind of bowed giving them a curve. This design also inspired one of the enemies main attacks, in which it will swipe at the player and cause damage.

Another main inspiration for this design is a reptile, which is the reason it has a reptile like pupil, it has green scaly skin and sharp teeth. Another main feature of this boss is its other main attack. It shoots a steady laser beam from its eye which tracks the character for two seconds. The bosses weak point is the eye, however to acsses the weakspot the play must shoot out the visible legs on the screen causing the boss to fall over stunned opening the weakness.

The fourth sketch is the basic enemy. For an example of the main boss is Bowser these guys are the goombas. These enemies are relatively weak and can be killed without requiring a specific area be hit. The main attacks of this creature are a laser beam and a melee. Unlike the boss the laser of this creature is not a steady beam, but rather one small bolt every second. The melee attack is different from the boss in the way that instead of swiping with its claws it jumps towards you and bites with its teeth to cause damage to the player.


3. Player and pick ups

This fifth sketch shows a very basic design that is no where close to being completed but gives a rundown of the player character and some, not all, of the pickups. The main character begins the game in a space suit. This suit will be in the same colours as the UPS uniform consisting of brown with small hints of gold.

As you take damage as well as the health indicator lowering the suit will become progressively more ruined. The suit can be be restored along with health by collecting the repair kits scattered through out the level. Another pickup that is obtainable is the rocket boots which unlocks the ability to double jump which will be nessecary to progress.

The other three pickups that I have drawn onto the sketch are weapon pickups which will replace your standard laser pistol which you start the game with. However whilst your pistol has unlimited ammo the weapon pickups do not.

The first of these is the laser rifle. This gun deals the same amount of damage as the pistol per hit, but fires three times as fast allowing more damage to be dealt in the same amount of time.

The second weapon design is a photon grenade. This has two effects. The first effect is that it will kill any enemies within range of the blast like a regular grenade. The secondary effect is that an enemy not killed will be stunned for a short period of time after detonation.

The third weapon pickup that I have considered is the railgun. This gun will one hit kill any enemy(aside from the boss) and the projectile will carry on after hitting until the end of the screen allowing a chance of hitting a second enemy. The down side to this weapon however is the low recharge time of four seconds.

I do have more weapons and enemy variations planned but have yet to design and will do so at a later date.