Computer game graphics & proposal

Client needs
Rockstar games have accepted your presentation and have now interviewed you
and given you the position. Your first task on joining the team is to provide your
ideas for the sprite graphics, concept art and finally the game packaging for a
new game

Audience genre
Dead Nation will be developed for XBOX ONE and PlayStation 4 as the high
quality of the visual style is that of the same as many previous XBOX and
PlayStation games along with intensive research these two are the most popular
gamming consoles on the market and of course with the branching out to these
gamers will further help the marketing and also development of this independent
game. Dead Nation will be aimed at core gamers and also casual gamers as I
dont with this to be a game that people feel as if they cant play if they are one
or the other and of course it wont be gender specific it will only aim at people
who like action, adventure, horror and thriller games.

Market research
of course for the age of my game my target audience is going to have to be 18+
this means that straight off I am going to have to compare games that are 18
and see how they are marketed. With the games that I will be looking at there is
no way I will acutely be able to define what gender the game is and when it
comes to my game I dont want it to just focus on one gender or appeal to only
one gender however with the nature of the game I feel as that people will just
straight away assume that it is directed at boys however I do want my game to
be based at both core and casual gamers I will do this by having multiple levels
and also having many different achievements thought the game that people will
be able to work up to too archive.
SIMILAR GAMES ALREADY IN THE MARKET
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS ZOMBIES: is a 2011 spin-off game of the Call of Duty
Series Zombies mode and the sequel to Call of Duty: Zombies. It is the sequel to
the popular mode on Call of Duty: World at War, the fifth title in the Call of Duty
Series. The game allows two- to four-player co-op multiplayer, and, as a new
addition to the iOS platform, voice chat and another new feature - to crouch and
full prone - a first for all iOS first-person shooters. The first map released was
Kino Der Toten. Dead Ops Arcade has also been fully transformed to the iOS
platform, with 50 levels, and the player is able to select and play as one of the
four characters from the console version (Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, Takeo
Masaki and Doctor Edward Richtofen) or as one of the four random characters
from Dead Ops Arcade and a "rookie" soldier in the tutorial. Activision has stated
that further map packs will be released in the near future, free of charge, and
Ascension was listed as coming soon in the map selection, while Call of the
Dead's name was seen briefly after that. Both of these maps have been released.
 DEAD RISING: is a
series of zombie survival horror beat 'em up video games set in an open world.
The games in the franchise take place in fictional cities, although real cities are
mentioned, the first game happens in small Mall in the town of Willamette,
Colorado. The prequel expansion for the second game "Case Zero" happens in
Still Creek a small town near Las Vegas, while the main game happens in a
Fortune City, a Casino Mall, the epilogue downloadable content "Case West"
happens in a Phenotrans Facility nearby. The third game takes place in Los
Perdidos, California. "Dead Rising 4" happens in again, in Willamette with a
zombie outbreak happening in the "Willamette Memorial Mall" which was
constructed to honour the victims of the first game outbreak. "Phenotrans" is a
farmaceutical multimillion dollar company, which creates and distributes
"Zombrex", a medicine which can if taken daily can prevent a zombie infected
person from turning into a zombie, the medicine is sold at highly expensive
prices forcing, causing a high strain in the infected, not knowing if they will be
able to afford it on the next day. The company serves as the main antagonist of
the series. There are also organizations like C.U.R.E. (Citizens for Undead Rights
and Equality) which fought for the right of the zombies. And reality shows like
"Terror Is Reality" where the contestants compete to see who kills more zombies,
and the winner gets great amounts money.
DYING LIGHT: is an open world first person action-adventure survival horror video
game developed by Polish video game developer Techland and published by
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Announced in May 2013, it was released
in January 2015 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The
game revolves around an undercover agent named Kyle Crane who is sent to
infiltrate a quarantine zone in a city called Harran. It features an enemy-infested,
open-world city with a dynamic day and night cycle. The day-night cycle changes
the game drastically, as enemies become more aggressive and more difficult to
deal with during night time. The gameplay is focused on weapons-based combat
and parkour
Overview
Dead Nation is a
zombie killing action
game similar to other
big named games such
as Dead Rising, Last of
us and Dead Island.
This game allows you
to develop your
characters skills from
the basic training they
have already received
before being given the
mission to clean up the Dead Nation that is the United States. Explore a number
of abandon Zombie infested locations gain new skills and make sure you never
run out of ammo.

Objectives
The players aim as one of the newly trained soldiers is to explore the abandon
cities and kill any of the flesh eating ghouls they come across and also develop
their basic skills and adapt to the environment they have been placed in. This
will allow them to level up and gain even more skills in things like combat and
health. This will make the character better and also makes it easier when it
comes to being in combat.

Storyline and theme

The year is 2023 and for the past 3 years the whole of the United States have
been uninhabitable due to the infection of over 85% of its residents. Brain dead
and flesh eating. They roam the streets of abandoned cities and desiccated
countryside. In the desperation for the old tenants (whats left of them) to take
back their country many have volunteered to undergo basic military training in
the fight to get back what is theirs. The first five hundred prototype solders are
shipped in with the objective to kill anything in site and to completely
exterminate the deadly infected corpuses. First of all, they must scope out how
bad the situation is and due to the extensive time from when they last returned I
guess someone was just hoping the problem would solve its self of course with
the help of a number of military air strikes on small towns and pre-derelict
buildings before Z day came of the evacuation of those who showed no
symptoms of the virus. However, when they return they realise the situation is
worse than anyone would ever be able to predict.
The game is set in abandoned cities based in America. There are going to be 10
different locations to explore with lots of other places within them and also
different items to collect and weapons to collects and craft.
 Structure

Features
Earn XP through the
game and completing
missions & tasks to
upgrade and improve
your characters skills.
The character the
player choses to play as
will start off with very
basic skills and one of
the aims of the game is
to build up all of the
skills. The skills that
you can upgrade and
improve on are:
COMBAT: Improves
fighting skills and
allows the player to
access more combos as
well as take down the
enemy quicker and with
less effort.
HEALTH: gain more
health and be able to
last longer against the
enemy and withstand
more of their hits.
INTELLIGENCE: be able
to hack computers and
unlock safes that are
more secure
SURVIVAL: improve on
stealth and also being
able to craft weapons
and clothing
The soldiers within the
game arent really that
customisable however the player is able to change things like the outfit and also
accessories that the player can collect through the different maps and also being
able the craft the items as the plyer gains more XP. Not only will the clothes that
you wear be able to customize but also the weapons that you use. This will either
be done by collecting/ finding the parts that you will need to customize. These
are going to be the only things that they player will be able to customize and
change about the character that they have chosen when it comes to the
appearance.
Characters/graphics
There is only going to be one playable character in the story mode however at
the beginning you will be able to choose what your character looks like form a
selection of pre made character are the beginning of a new game. And through
the game the player will be given multiple opportunities to customize their
character.
SOLIDER- this will be the player and the looks of this character will depend on
who the player picks in the beginning of the game. The solider is sent in to help
control the issue of the zombies in the abandon states of America. The image to
the left is an example of what the players character could look like
SARGENT- this is the person that the player will be taking orders from when it
comes to doing the main missions. Although you will never see their face you will
only hear their voice their presents is still important and has an impact on the
way the player will play the game
SURVIVES- once civilians that were left behind and have managed to stay alive
by adapting to their environment and managing to stay alive. Depending on the
way
INFECTED- these are the people that have been bitten but havent change into
a zombie yet. When the player comes across one they player will be given the
option to save them and use an antidote for the viruses that is out of their own
supply or end their suffering and kill them before they turn or to just simply let
them turn into a walker.
There will be hundreds of NPCs through the game as these are the characters
that the player will not be able to play and dont really have an impact on the
game in the sense of what they do as in their actions dont have an impact on
the way the player plays the game. An example of this is the walkers (zombies)
although the player will have to fight them. Where they walk and what they do
doesnt affect the game.

Mechanics of the game

As you can see by the image above this is all of the controls that you will be able
to do with your character. No matter what character or level of the game the
controls will stay the same and you will be unable to change them.