Alien concept

[hectorblanco]

To start working with the aliens, I decided to make quick sketches of how it could looks like, you should not choose one but to give your feedback. If he should looks more like alien, human, less clothes, with or without helm, etc.

As soon as we define the concept I will start working with the game models.

[Waog]

ok, i'll argue from top to bottom:

• head: i like the bold head without helmet and hairs most, because it makes really clear that we have an alien here. I also like the bigger heads more (3,5) because they are better to see on "mobile screens" and somehow look more "casual". But with the size I'm a little worried that they may cover the alien too much in ISO perspective. The helmet is also cool somehow but doesn't match the rest of the uniform. It also makes it more impersonal or distant to the player.
• suit: (1,2,3,4,7) are very martial, while (5) is more intellectual or wise. It depends a little bit on what kind of game we want to end up with. If we want more of an action game, with sprinting around, quick reflexes, explosions and skorpion-limbs flying around the martial suit fits better. If we wan't more of a tactics game, with smart positioning, some coop-riddles, slower enemies, static traps, and labyrinths, then the thinker-suit fits better. Number (6) is somewhere in between, I don't like it because it's neither one thing nor another. Naked (8) is too contradictionary with having a shield. The swimming suit (9) ... i don't know why, i just don't like it.
  • soldiers vs. thinkers: I'm open to both kinds of games, but we should decide on one type. I personally prefer to play the thinker-games, but they make much more work to realize (we need to invest much in level-design here). The action-games are not m favorites, but they are fun to me if they have some strategic parts between the levels (buying items etc.). Actions games are normally easier to program, but harder to visualize. So you can decide on it.

[hectorblanco]

Good, thanks. I really liked something with the helmet but I could not just finish something that fit with it.

I was talking with Laura and she said that they activate the shield with the power of their brains, reason why I made one with a -jedi-like-tunic- (number 5), because they are a fragile kind, reason why the scorpions can kill them really easy and they use their shield to protect themselves.

I'm going to refine some and upload it.

[lauraluiz]

Ah yes, as the shields are floating and depend on the position of the brother, I imaged something like an energy force that is generated with the brain power, as a projection of their connection.

Since they are not physically fighting and just getting in contact with an enemy makes them die, I imaged their bodies were weak, so I couldn't imagine them like with strong suits, rather with tunics or simply naked.

But that's only the vision I had of the game, which is not completely defined. I also think the look of them should go accordingly with the story and way of fighting enemies.