Group Work! SPROUTS

For the interactive paper, we formed groups to create a game for the remainder of the year. I formed a group with Taylor, Mikayla, Joanne & Tea & we are caller TEAM SPROUTS :D

Yesterday we brainstormed ideas and rather than having separate ideas, we choose the idea of sprouts right off the bat. This is because we found some sprout hair clips and they're pre cute & we wanted to make a cute game. From there we had loads of ideas regarding sprouts and the environment. 

We decided to make the game fully natural, with nothing man made. As the game must have a humanoid main character, our hero will be a humanoid type plant/ sprout kinda guy. We also want our character to be gender-less. Jo wrote down all our ideas and compiled them together. 

Our general idea is that a lil sprout dude needs to replant the forest to save his kind. He will collect seeds and water to help them grow and fight off pests such as snails and slugs. As we had a looooot of ideas, I'm not entirely sure with which idea we're going with just yet, but that's the jist of our game to be :)

After our brainstorm sesh, we each went off to make a moodboard, draw up a few character concepts and environment concepts. The moodboard I've created is more closely linked to the colours and style I imagine the game. The designs in this moodboard are simple,. but very beautiful. We want to make our game purely 2D, so we can focus on the story and making our game very appealing. 2D is also our strong point and we feel like it will be better portrayed in 2D rather than 3D.
I will most likely get the character and environment done in the weekend. I've started an environment in my book, but will most likely take it into paint tool sai to brush it up more :)

Our theme is fantasy, so we are able to change up the environment - with out of this world kind of designs. Ivan Laliashvili shows interesting fantasy environment concepts. The trees almost look like they have natural carvings on the bark. I think it'd be quite neat if we implemented this idea by having natural Maori carvings on the trees to better link it to being a NZ game.

References
http://tyvik.deviantart.com/art/Environment-Concept-349531184
http://domen-art.deviantart.com/art/Flora-and-Scene-Designes-545349113
http://domen-art.deviantart.com/art/Morpho-Goons-Environment-568620774
http://domen-art.deviantart.com/art/Underworld-sidescroller-concept-art-495617010
http://domen-art.deviantart.com/art/Concept-art-for-2D-sidescroller-495616936
http://pyroxene.deviantart.com/art/Sagramore-MMO-background-gfx-1-256612930|
http://fgfactory.deviantart.com/art/Environments-627483972
http://jurgitaart.deviantart.com/art/2D-environment-520575262

Ivan Laliashvili
http://ivanlaliashvili.deviantart.com/art/Loading-animation-1-399846010
http://ivanlaliashvili.deviantart.com/art/Magic-Kingdom-382158219