{"id":8446,"date":"2018-03-28T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=8446"},"modified":"2020-02-12T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T22:10:01","slug":"radical-game-design-city-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=8446","title":{"rendered":"Radical Games: City Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GameSceenShot2\"<\/a>\u00a0 Screenshot from Unity build<\/em><\/p>\n

My game, City Watch,\u00a0is about a girl named Lena who starts as part of the City Watch.\u00a0 The City Watch is the faction of the city that houses the knights who protect and watch over the entire city.\u00a0 Their job is to patrol and protect the city from crime.\u00a0 Lena is part of the City Watch, but she has been tasked with finding and infiltrating the Thieves’ Guild.\u00a0 Because of her job to infiltrate the Thieves, the game can take a split.\u00a0 Lena can either decide to fully join the thieves and abandon the City Watch, or she can do as originally told and destroy the Thieves’ Guild.\u00a0 The choice is up to the player.\u00a0 There are steps to accomplishing either faction in the game.\u00a0 For the thieves, it is really all about stealing.\u00a0 The more that is stolen, the greater chance of being part of the guild, but also the worse that the relationship becomes with the City Watch.\u00a0 For the City Watch, the goal is to do good.\u00a0 It is to help people, and to find crime in the city.\u00a0 There are some shady people in the world, so it is up to Lena to get rid of them.\u00a0 Of course getting rid of the thieves is also the main goal to the City Watch as well.<\/p>\n

There is a constant tug and pull in the game- the player can either do what is morally right, or they can bend the rules and go outside of the law in the game.\u00a0 There is no real “right or wrong,” no way of the game is better than the other, both have their merits and rewards, so the game is really in the player’s hands on how they want to play it.\u00a0 That is what is radical about my game; their is no truly right way to play it.\u00a0 However the player wants to play the game is the “right” way to play it.<\/p>\n

I came up with the idea for the game based on my history with playing many video games.\u00a0 I play a lot of fantasy styled games like The Witcher series and the Elder Scrolls series.\u00a0 In those games there are many morally grey characters, which makes the games interesting and fun to play.\u00a0 And especially within the Elder Scrolls series, there are always thieves guilds or darker factions within the world.\u00a0 The player can join the guild through quests, and their is some risk in being caught stealing.\u00a0 However, there is no real risk in the game for joining the guild.\u00a0 It is a side-quest so it has no real impact on the game.\u00a0 That is where I wanted to differently with my game.\u00a0 I like the idea of guilds within a fantasy type world, but I wanted there to be more decision and change to joining them.\u00a0 The idea of consequence and story changing decisions was influenced by the Dragon Age games as well as The Witcher.\u00a0 Those games are heavy in story driven choice.\u00a0 I like games that give options to the player; there are multiple ways to play the game based off of what actions the player decides to take.<\/p>\n

\"GameScreenshot\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Another screenshot from the Unity Build- Shopkeep on the left and Lena to the right<\/em><\/p>\n

The level that I am working on currently is for the city.\u00a0 There are a few NPCs in the level.\u00a0 There is the shady shopkeep, the suspicious teen, and there is the rat.\u00a0 As I progress with the game I will probably add more characters to the level, but as of right now those are the characters that exist in the level so far.\u00a0 By talking to the shopkeep, Lena learns rumor about the thieves.\u00a0 The teen also gives different rumor, and I am working on creating interesting dialogue for both NPCs.\u00a0 I want their rumors to be informative but not too telling, and I want more dichotomy in this level.\u00a0 As of right now, the level leans more toward finding the thieves, but not much is talked about in terms of the City Watch.\u00a0 There is also the rat in the level.\u00a0 It leads Lena towards the thieves and toward stealing.\u00a0 As Lena grows closer to the thieves, her bond also increases with the rat.\u00a0 Eventually there will be a counter to the rat, there will be something that guides Lena more towards helping the City Watch.<\/p>\n

For the level, I am using a rather dark color palette.\u00a0 The colors are mostly shades of grey and red.\u00a0 Towards the right side of the level, where Lena comes out of the City Watch, I made the building colors slightly more colorful.\u00a0 The red is brighter and the colors in the windows are lighter and pinker.\u00a0 As Lena travels left in the level, the colors of the buildings change.\u00a0 The base color of the buildings becomes a darker and grayer red.\u00a0 The colors in the windows are now dark grey and the lighter grey from the right side.\u00a0 There is less vibrancy in level on the left side because Lena is moving towards the Thieves’ Guild.\u00a0 I had originally made the level pretty light and “normal.”\u00a0 The sky was blue and the buildings were brown and grey; but I didn’t like the way that felt for the level.\u00a0 Making the level darker made the level feel better.\u00a0 The city is not a cheery place and there is a lot of crime that goes on, so it only makes sense that the color in the level reflect that.<\/p>\n

\"Lena<\/a><\/p>\n

Sprite for Lena in the game.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_1309\"<\/a>\u00a0Original paper game sprite for Lena<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_1490\"<\/a> \"IMG_1489\"<\/a>\u00a0P\"IMG_1488\"<\/a>Paper game levels<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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