Game Vision Statement

Vision, it's a powerful thing, I should know, I needed glasses and didn't know I needed them, Now I can't live without them. Anyway, that's not what I'm talking, today I'm gonna be talking about my game and how I envision it.

First, My Game will be a first person Action-Adventure game with some debatable RPG elements, I say debatable because now of days many games have RPG mechanics but aren't really RPGs, for example is Far cry 5 an RPG because you get new skills and have an inventory ? The game is mostly based off, Terraria so the gameplay is very similar to it, you'll need to collect certain items, build up your strength, get stronger and defeat bosses.

The big difference is that my game is going to be in 3D while Terraria is a 2D game, I'm not sure in what way that will effect the gameplay as that can effect a game very badly, for example Mega-man X7  and I'll have to be careful not to fall into that "pit-fall" get it ? Aren't I funny ?. One thing that is different, is that unlike Terraria, I don't plan to set my game as a open world game, instead I plan to create levels for the player  as I think 1, gamers are getting sick of Open world game (Jim Sterling made a great video about it, here ) and 2, I think open worlds are beyond my ability, I can't get a clock to work in unity nevermind a whole fucking world.

The game is about the player, who is trapped in a abandoned shopping center, unfortunately said shopping center is fill with monsters (No, I'm talking about Black Friday Shoppers) and now must fight his/she/their way out, but the question is: will you make it out ?

The game will have a basic melee combat system, enemies and hopefully Bosses (or at least one). I also planned to added weapons to help take down enemies easier, but not be drop by enemies instead the player will have to find them and hope to god they find them fast.

Last time, I showed a sketch of what I think the map would look like:

from last project blog, taken by me

I decided I would sketch out, how I want the game to look like:

A Rough Sketch of my game, drawn and Taken by Me.

Keep in mind this a rough sketch of the game and how I imagine it would look like. As you see, I focusing on melee combat and not shooter combat. I would like to have some way for ranged attacks, but for now, I'm only focusing on Melee combat.

For resources, the biggest one for me is animation, I need animation for the combat, the enemies and the bosses. Unfortunately, I don't know how to animate but I do know the Unity store sells animation, there's also the possibly of making my own but I think that be a bit out of my field.

I will also need sound effects, not just for the creatures or the bosses. I need them for when the player picks up an item or defeat an enemy. In fact, I need background music to play, maybe not on loop but I still need it for the game.

I'll also need models, as much it would be fun to hit cubes and spheres, it would be a bit weird after a while since I don't think cubes count as monsters. I've never made a model before, so I don't know how hard it is, I do know the Unity Store also sells these, so maybe I can get some from there and change them a bit to make them look more original ?

I also need weapon models as well, I not sure how many weapons I want in the game so I'll need to figure that out before looking for models and add them into the game. The Unity store might be able to help me out here as well, the Unity store is gonna be my saving grace by the looks of things.

I'll need to do more level design, map layouts and stuff. Now I know the Unity Store sells levels, building and everything, Even your ma but I want to at least try to make this on my own. There's a name for a game that has bought assets that are thrown into Unity, it's call an asset flip and they're generally not well liked. I want to avoid my game becoming another "Asset-flip" and besides I want to give level designing a go, sounds like it could be great crack !