Rhythm of the Night
By Team 2/4
The Team
| Team Leader |
|---|
| Cem Alemdar |
| IMGD 4000 Tech | Roles | |
|---|---|---|
| Cem Alemdar | Documentation, Website development, Audiovisual Synchronization | calemdar@wpi.edu |
| Panhavuth Lau | Documentation, Website development, Audiovisual Synchronization, Sound Engineer | plau@wpi.edu |
| Shiyi Liu | Interactive Design, Technical Artist, Sound Engineer | sliu4@wpi.edu |
| Alex Tian | Lead Developer, Gameplay Programmer | atien@wpi.edu |
| IMGD 4500 Art | Roles | |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Love | Character Artist, Sound Engineer | smlove@wpi.edu |
| Gavin Taylor | Environmental Artist, Game Designer | gtaylor@wpi.edu |
Elevator Pitch
Protect your camp friends from what lurks at night... by playing this rhythm arcade hack-'n-bash RPG game! Play as a musician and stir away your fear!
Detailed Description
Setting
Takes place at a modern night-time campfire with friends.
Protagonist
The Sleepy Campers
Antagonists
Various nightmare or ghost enemies
Primary Objective
Fight off enemies to protect your sleeping friends; the player wins once all enemies are defeated
General Narrative
You and your friends are camping in the forest. During the night, musical shadow creatures attack. Use your musical combat abilities to protect your sleeping friends.
Game Mechanic
Hack and bash, attacks based on the music, miss attacks if completely off beat, ability to dash from one enemy to the next during combo. Combo mechanics are similar to Patapon Fever mode, where successfully playing to the rhythm allows for benefits if maintained
Asset List
Technical Elements
Scoring and damage system that takes the music into consideration, basic enemy AI with path-finding and attacks, positional audio
Style Guide
Style will be semi-cartoon with some shaders; definitely will use special effects for hitting and musical projections
The overall mood, angle, and colors would be close to The Last Campfire
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and
The shadow enemies should be similar to A Hat in Time's The Snatcher.
Some ghostly enemies can have no legs like Peepa from Super Mario 3D Land. Having less limbs to animate can make it less taxing for the artists in the scope of the term.
We wouldn't want to have a completely cartoon-style theme, it can be similar to a degree of realism like Blizzard's Warcraft III: Reforged art style.
Concept Art
We've developed some concept art and introduced some of their color palettes as well:
Main Character
Main character with a djembe on a stick.
Enemies
Environment
