Fatal - Game Design Concept

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G a m e D e s i g n 1

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P r o f e s s o r L e e

Connor MillikenThe final project for Game Design 1 & 2 is called

Fatal. This is the game in which I have designed

that incorporates multiple layouts of a vast RPGincorporated shooter that will give you a thrill.

Fatal


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Table of Contents

Final Project

Introductionpg. 5-7

Titlepg. 5

Genrepg. 5

Platformpg. 6

Target Ratingpg. 6

Themepg. 7

Feature Summarypg. 7

Characterspg. 8-11

First Character: Banepg. 8-9

Second Character: Lukepg. 9-10

Third Character: Karhnpg. 10-11

Storylinepg. 11-15

Premisepg. 11-12

Backstorypg. 12-13

Synopsispg. 13-14

Challengespg. 14-15

Strategiespg. 14-15

Designpg. 15-26

Level Structurepg. 15-16


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Environmental Designpg. 16

Interface Designpg. 17

Artificial Intelligencepg. 18

Concept Artpg. 18-19

Art Style Guidepg. 19-26

a. Concept Artpg. 19-20b. Storyboardpg. 20c. Color Palettes and Texture Samplespg. 21d.

World Coordinate Systempg. 21-22

e. Asset List and Dependencies (for one scene)pg. 22-24f. Digital Photopg. 24-25g. Flash or 3Ds Max Examplepg. 25h. Video Resolution and Aspect Ratiopg. 26

Sound pg. 26-29

Audiopg. 26-27

Sound Design Documentpg. 27-29

a. Stylepg. 27-28b. Types/Assetspg. 28-29c. Transitionspg. 29

Productionpg. 29-36

a. Production Planpg. 29-36a. Staffing Plan pg. 29-31b. Milestonespg. 31-35


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c. 3 Taskspg. 35-36Marketingpg. 36-40

Target Marketpg. 36-37

Competitive Analysispg. 37-38

Marketing Planpg. 38-40

Referencespg. 41


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Connor Milliken

Professor Lee

Game Design 1

December 14, 2010

Fatal

Introduction

Title:

Fatal is a new game that will be offered sometime soon at the new E3 convention

being held next year. The reason this game will be called Fatal is due to the fact that this

new game will be a decision based game with the user controlling almost every decision

the character makes in the game itself. Every decision is Fatal to the end result of the

characters life and crucial to the events that occur throughout the main characters life.

Genre:

This game will be an RPG shooter, which will combine both the role-playing

aspect of the game play and being in an environment of war as it is today such as modern

warfare. Fatal will be a revolutionary game which will bring together the aspect of the

user making every decision for the character, while he also levels up and acquires

abilities and skills in a shooting game.


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Platform

The platform that we will be targeting with Fatal will be PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.

The reasoning for this is because these are the three main platforms that people play for

shooters and RPG's, so that would allow for bigger sales than if they were put on the Wii

because the Wii is more of an interactive game with moving while Fatal will be more of a

sit down and "shoot em up game". With the choice of only allowing these platforms to

play this game that gives us the freedom of only worrying about button used games,

because Wii is with a different kind of controller, but in the future if the game was a great

hit then we would possibly go with expansion and bring it to the Wii and Xbox Kinect. In

other words we will be targeting the console based platforms and not go into board games

and table games of such with this game.

Target Rating

The ESRB rating for Fatal will be a mature rating of 17+ due to its graphic

violence and some use of harsh language thrown in the game to enhance the state of

reality inside the game itself. There will also be a lot of gore and blood in the game as

well because you are killing people and we want this game to be as realistically possible

as we can get it. Even though we won't allow people less than 17 years of age to buy the

game we expect that the older group of teens and males will buy the majority of the

games because the game is targeted toward their generation, which is interested in

challenges and fantasy shooter games.


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Theme:

The theme of Fatal will include the decision of good vs. evil and also the survival

aspect of human nature. Each decision the user makes will cause the character to turn

more to either good or evil and also every fight in the game would require the user to use

everything they have just to show their ability to survive and also how much they want to

live. The reasoning for this theme is due to the story line of the game which includes in

the beginning a certain event to occur in which you make your first decision to do good

or evil against the ones you love. In essence the main theme will be good vs. evil due to

the decisions that the user will encounter and have to make.

Feature Summary -

Five features that make my game a leading competitor above the rest would be for

these reasons; Fatal allows the user to make their own choices on what missions they

should take and that deciphers the game play of the story, it also will allow for modern

technology use along with some fantasy magic moves giving the best of both worlds such

as weapons and abilities. Fatal will also give you the opportunity to go to vast areas of the

modern world such as rain forests, to the desert, to most urban cities of such. This game

is also the mix of RPG and shooters which allows for a fun fantasy game which involves

tons of special abilities and several different ways to play the game itself. Lastly, the best

feature of this game is the characters themselves, mostly because each character is unique

in their own way and you get to play with each one at every different level. This allows

for the use of different characteristics, moves, abilities, and most importantly fun.


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Characters

First Character: Bane

Background: Bane Volani is part of the royal family who rules the land of Argia

and is the youngest son of 6 siblings; he is the main character of the game. He

continuously breaks laws given by his parents, and loves to hunt in the forest and always

does. He is a strong willed character, with a good heart and a level head. He has always

been a decision maker in his group of friends and everyone looks up to him.

Physiology: Bane at the moment is very young, but will grow in age and will

become wiser and he progresses. His features include: an athletic body type, blue eyes,

unknown powers, blond hair, and white skin. He continually is very cheery and happy,

but when angered shows it in powerful rage. His health is unheard of because he was a

royal member he had all the greatest health care and coverage. The only movement

noticeably different from anyone else is how he walks with a chip on his shoulder, such

as that he is more knowledgeable than anyone else.

Sociology: Bane as a royal family member is looked up to as a powerful human

being. He holds more power than any other human while his family is missing. His

decisions also influence the peoples decisions politically, and regularly. He is not

married and is very young, but at this age he has very high respect for his friends Luke

and his newly found friend Karhn. They all have significant trust in each other and get

along with one another.

Psychology: Bane is socially intelligent and will show his knowledge whenever

he can. He generally has no weakness other than his friends and families and his strengths


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are unimaginable. He is not easily tempered and always believes that the balance of good

vs. evil rests in the hands of man kind. After the events Bane has no fears other than the

fear of never seeing his family again, but will go to any length just to save them. He is the

nearly perfect human and shows it as well. He likes challenges, his faith, and his loved

ones, but hates anyone in his path that stands to take him down.

Verbal Characteristics: Bane has a slightly deep voice, but is as easy to

understand as anybody else. He often will talk with higher intelligence than most,

however, saying quotes like, Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

Second Character: Luke

Background: Luke has always been Banes best friend since the day they were

both born on the same day. He assists Bane in his conquest after finding that Banes

family is missing. Luke is very tough and strong as a giant kid, and was always called

Big Green, because he always wore green. Along with Bane he hopes to make the right

decisions on the path of conquest.

Physiology: Luke is brave and built like the hulk. He has broad muscles and is

looked up to as a giant. With brown hair, brown eyes, and pale skin he is the body guard

for Bane and always shows it. He is very healthy because he was a friend to Bane, but his

very specific movement is that he walks slouched with a dumbfounded face at times.

Sociology: Luke has no economic power and doesnt intend to get involved into

the economy mainly because he is more of a brunt worker for his friend Bane. He gets

along with just about everyone and everything unless they harm him or a friend in any

way. Luke shows the most compassion than anyone else due to the fact he has had issues


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in the past with family issues. As for his friendship with Karhn and Bane, he fully trusts

Bane, but watches every step Karhn makes just incase he may make the wrong one.

Psychology: Lukes biggest weakness is his compassion for everything because it

allows him to be vulnerable at any point in time. His biggest strength is his own build and

ability to use his own strength against others. He is always emotionally stable and never

gets angered unless you hurt him or someone he loves. Luke isnt married as to the fact

he is very young along with Bane and as he grows older he will become wiser. He likes

his friend Bane and dislikes anyone that angers him.

Verbal Characteristics: His voice is very low and shows lack of intelligence

sometimes, but shows compassion and high speed of speech. Something he would say

might involve a lot of questions such as: why, when, where, and who.

Third Character: Karhn

Background: Karhn is the demon of the Devil himself who is one of the most

powerful demons in Hell. After serving for Satin for over four-hundred centuries Karhn

lashes out against the Devil and returns to Earth in human form. With certain abilities

Karhn gives aid to Bane to find his family in search of the truth. Karhns defiance

towards Satin shows courage and how his heart has grown since his release to Hell.

Physiology: Karhn in human form is an average human and has a high type of

anger. When angered his true form comes out and turns into the demon he really is, this

ability is the strongest aspect of Banes force. In human form he is dark skinned, with red

eyes, black hair, and an average body type. Karhn will often show no emotion and only

ever shows it when the rage comes out of his inner demon. His signature movements


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depend on his form and while in demon form his movements are not seen to the human

eye.

Sociology: Karhn does not get involved into anything dealing with economics

mainly because he isnt human. He was a working man when he lived, but committed a

crime in which he isnt happy with anymore and feels the need to aid Bane in his quest.

He gets along with Bane, but knows his trust with Luke isnt as good as it could be. He

will never trust anyone fully, but the closest to that is Bane.

Psychology: Karhn was married before he was sent to Hell years ago, but now

does not get involved with any marital related options. He is extremely intelligent and

very dark as well. His abilities give him more power than any man can imagine. He has

no feelings and no fears as well; his only goal is to help Bane is his quest to save his

family because of his decision to do well instead of evil. As for emotions, he will never

show them unless they include anger. He likes dark places and hates the light.

Verbal Characteristics: Karhn is especially low pitched and more evil or devilish

sounding due to his alter ego, but when he talks which is not often at all he shows little

compassion and is more along the lines of death or unhappiness. He might say something

like, Death is the prettiest site of the Devils Art.

Storyline

Premise:

Bane, the main character, is a strong wielded character who is not only born into a

great family, but is also born into one of most unheard of events to occur at the time. His

family, although royal, had been plotted against and is in the need of your help. Bane will


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need you to show him the path he must take to complete his tasks at hand. You decide

whether Bane will go to the dark side or stay the angel and the savior that he must be in

the rigid world of Argia. In order to complete these tasks you must control Bane and

decide his fate overall while along the way developing new skills and learning new

abilities to overpower those who stand in your way.

Backstory:

The year is 2024, in the land of Argia. Bane and his family are the royal rulers of

all the land. While Banes family controls all the land, they do not realize the plot

growing to de-thrown the family and give all the power to the people. Bane and his

friends are six years old at the time and always play outside the castle in the forests and

such. While growing up Bane had everything at his disposal including the ability to learn

about the new technology. One day Bane was playing with his group of four friends

including himself and went out to shoot some birds in the forest with the guns they

received, but when Bane returns he finds his family gone and the castle trashed. As he

searches for his family he sees a light coming from the royal chamber and so he decides

to follow it. Bane along with his friends prepare for what is behind the door. After

bursting in and seeing a sight that no one had ever seen before, Bane got on his knees and

began to pray. The Devil had come to earth to take the families souls and yet when he

tried to take Banes the Devil was shocked. God had protected Bane, thus allowing Bane

to survive this attack on his family. Bane has now woken up unconscious and unaware of

what has happened, but the feeling of something wrong fills his mind. Bane is on the


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search for his friends and family and must fight even the worst of the world and the outer

worlds demons and what powers they might entail.

Synopsis:

In this game you play, as the main character Bane, will face many decisions along

the pathway to discovering the secrets as to what happened the night that you dont

remember. Along the way you will meet new friends and find your old friends, while

always looking for your family you will encounter challenges letting you earn new

abilities, skills, or friends. Decisions will affect your game play, your enemies; youre

your challenges along the path of your conquest. You will be able to choose a

specialization between certain classes and be able to acquire certain abilities that will

give you ultimate power. Every chapter entails its own decision and in those major

decisions involves many minor decisions that will consume the user to follow a good path

or an evil path. Bane will find challenges that need to be overcome in a dramatic scene

against the Devil and will continually find the Devil chasing him, but he will never make

a final blow until the final decision. Along this way the character it self will begin

looking the way that the user has taken action upon whether it is good or evil. After

acquiring new weapons, warriors, skills, and abilities you will follow the main goal of

saving your family, or doing what your evil heart desires. This game will make you

believe about good vs. evil and how you affect the balance of the land. While going along

you must keep in mind that God has given you the gift of saving your life from the

Devils power and for this you must follow your path to aid him in his quest to balance

the power of man kind on earth or defy him and defeat him in the end to gain all power


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and take what you desire. You will go through many choices along the way, but in the

end you will decide the fate of Argia.

Challenges and Strategies

The first challenge that the user will face will be when they are drop into a vast

forest and they have no GPS and no way of finding where they are. They must find their

way back to the town or city by using clues in the forest that they have to find all while

trying to sneak around and/or kill enemies. The path that the user chooses here could

result in a different path that the user may take. For example if the user decided to go

with the sneak in approach then they will develop skills similar to a spy, but also would

make it so that the missions that the user receives later on will be more of the spy

approach rather than the shoot everything approach missions.

The second challenge will ensue when the user has just found one of the known

targets that he must kill and is in a chase scene with him. He will find it harder to catch

the killer when he flies off the side of a huge cliff in a parachute after jumping out of the

car. The user must find a way to get to get down the cliff through either grappling down

or climbing down the path, but the only problem is that some rocks are slippery and one

wrong decision could be the end of the game for them. The result of climbing down

would give you more attribute points towards being a spy or nibble while also increasing

vision because you can see some things others can't.

Lastly, the third challenge will come later towards the end of the game when the

user has been caught by the enemy and is taken into a prison cell after tunneling down the

prison to catch the enemy. The room is locked down with two people on guard at all


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times and he only has a few minutes to escape before he is killed by the boss. Giving

your surroundings you must find ways to find a way out whether you climb through the

top of the cell or pick the lock of the door and kill the two guards while trying to escape.

These challenges will be very tricky and will take some intellect to solve, but depending

on how well you solve these challenges you will level up faster or slower. In the end, the

end result depends on one of these decisions because one decision will lead toward an

undercover escape and kill, while the other will be a more up front confrontation with the

boss himself.

Design

Level Structure -

There will be multiple levels due to the choices you can make, but each level will

consist of certain jobs or contracts you have to fulfill in order to grow up, which is going

up to the next level in a way. Each contract will be targeted toward either making you

stronger, helping some citizens, helping some of your own characters, or helping uncover

a part of the story as to where the main characters family went. The beginning contracts

or jobs will involve missions that help you learn the controls with sparring (practical

fighting) to learn how to fight as you grow stronger. As you get further along the story,

however, we will throw inside events or quests that you can chose to fulfill, and those

missions could include a reward at the end of mission that gives you a special item

needed to defeat a boss later on. The levels primarily focus on the completion of levels

and the uncovering of clues pertaining toward the main character's family's

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evidence as to why the main character's family disappeared. All the levels as you get

stronger also have stronger enemies and as you get closer to the boss you face more elite

squads of enemies that look to kill you. Along the way you will also find the stories

between each character including Karhn's past, which is filled with a lot of questions. The

background of the story as it progresses gets closer to the enemies lair, but the sequence

is that you start in training camp, then perform several duties in multiple countries, then

proceed to hunt down the tracks leading you towards the enemy lair.

Environmental Design -

The surrounding environment in this game is mostly urban and primarily on

enemy lines. It is in the setting of a small town towards the Middle East of the world,

which will allow some desert like feeling and some heat during the day. Although in one

area of the game there will be a forest expedition, in which you have to travel to Brazil to

do some missions for your journey. You will have to go in buildings in order to complete

some missions including the final mission. In some scenes the buildings will have the

corporate business look with everything trashed around the offices and such so it gives

you that urban feeling, but in the other missions you will be inside a deserted prison. This

prison will be a fifty year old deserted prison in which the enemy is keeping hostages and

you have to tunnel down the compartments just to find that the eerie swamp filled bottom

is where you must stop the enemy. It will give the player the feeling that this place is not

where you feel comfortable, because there will be animals crawling around and water

dripping with moss and mold on the pipes of the tunnels.


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Interface Design

The way the users will access information will be from mostly the start menu. As

for the controls, lets start with console buttons, the left and right trigger will be fire and

sprint. The A button will allow players to interact with everyone, such as opening doors

and talking to people. The B button will allow players to use their first magic spell they

know, and the X button will allow the user to use the second magic spell of their

choice. The Y button will allow the user to switch weapons and the right stick will

allow you to look around while the left stick will let you move. The start button will

allow you to access the start menu and all the information you would probably be looking

for, and the select button will allow the user to check their stats and if they level up then

they will press that button to add to their stats. As for the bumpers the will serve as

secondary weapon use. Controls on the computer will primarily be like any other with

W.A.S.D as move and fire and interactive buttons right around those buttons as well.

One visual interface will be the menu system that they can access when they press

start. It will include the options of saving the game, loading a game, looking at level

information, looking at map information, being able to start a new game or reset, also

being able to exit the game and go back to the original game. The other visual interface

will involve what you see on the screen as your playing which will include; health bar,

amount of ammunition left, a map in the top right corner, your level status, your mana bar

for spells, and lastly your weapon choices for primary weapons. This will allow the user

to access most of the information they are looking for right away.


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Artificial Intelligence

The AI in this game will react to all of your actions that you make in the game.

Such as if you shoot someone then they will be either happy or mad at you determining

on what that person wanted you to do. Enemy AI's will also react accordingly, an

example is when youre trying to sneak in to a place then the enemy will try and spot you

and if you make noise then they will investigate the area, and the harder level you play on

the better the AI's are on discovering that you are in the area. All friendly AI's will react

graciously and kindly to the main characters except for Karhn because of his background

and how he's been an intruder to the allied people. The enemies obviously will always

look to kill you on sight. One good example of a chase scene and how the enemy will

react is by any of the routes that you take, because if you take one path it could lead to a

different cut scene, whereas, if you took a left instead of a right before you would end up

with a completely different cut scene and future of play later on with that character.

Concept Art

As stated before the environment will be primarily hot and in the desert with the

occasional missions in urban territory and vast forest wastelands of such. Here is a map

drawn to provide some information on the difference between the Urban, Deserted, and

Forest feeling environments. This map is represented by the mission that you have to do

in the desert, it doesnt include a lot of buildings, but it has heavy enemy fire.

KEY

Blackstart, YellowPath, GreenBuildings, RedEnemy bases


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Art Style Guide

Concept Art


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Storyboard


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Color Palettes and Texture Samples

Fatal will have a multiple array of colors in the game itself due to the fact that itwill be working on a 64-bit palette as opposed to anything of lower quality. The

palette will consist of millions of colors of all differences, but the color scheme

will be as realistic as possible. This won't be a cartoon looking game, because we

want Fatal to look as real as possible especially since we are working during the

time period of right now. Since we will have a higher resolution as well we won't

worry about the older TV's bleeding out the color because even though they

probably will, we want to have a realistic feeling so that if a TV bleeds out the

color because it is older then that leaves it up to the user to get a better TV for

themselves. In all scenes the text color will be an off-white color so that it can be

readable in any nature or picture for the reader to see. Since all the characters are

new and there isn't any licensing on these characters then, while creating the

characters we will be able to create any certain palettes we want rather than

having to stick to a licensed palette for an already made up character like Homer

or Scooby Doo.

World Coordinate System

My world coordinate system will scale at, one-hundred coordinate units equals tenfeet in the real world. This way by taking an average human being and putting

them into the game they will be sixty units tall by twenty units wide. This scale

will give me an advantage of adjusting all properties easily because it is at one-

hundred which will allow me to rearrange the characteristics height and those


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aspects by changing the number and altering his height. If you were to take the

photograph of the ocean (below) done for the photograph design for this game,

then you would see that it is about a mile long in the real world distance by about

a quarter or half a mile wide. This would mean that it would be 52,800 coordinate

units x 26,400 coordinate units. This allows me know exactly how far and how

wide this level will be giving me a bigger picture and a better idea of what

objectives, missions, objects, that I can put into the level itself. With this

information the game can successfully be created with a full scale that will help

maximize the efficiency of determining how big or small levels will be. The

landscape around each area will be more open than usual and will allow the user

to wander with certain boundaries tied off by either blockades or trees of some

sort.

Asset List and Dependencies (for one scene)

SceneBane/friends Running back to see what happened at the castle, finds his family

is behind a huge set of doors (scene ends when looking at doors)

Asset ID File Description Resolution Animations Dependenci

es

1 Buildings Background

Buildings in

Town

Low 10 0

2 Castle Banes Home

Castle4

Medium 1 0


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floor

3 Bane Main

Character

High 1 0

4 Bridge In Between

Forest and

Castle

High 1 0

5 Signs Normal

Directional

Signs

Low 4 0

6 Bushes Medium Sized Low 20 0

7 Banes

Friends

Side

Characters

Medium 2 3

8 Big Oak

Tree

Giant Carved

Tree

High 1 0

9 Trees/Forest Lots of Trees Low 20 0

10 BB Gun Normal Sized

Gun

High 1 0

11 Bane

Running

Running

Sounds

Medium 1 3,13

12 Friends

Running

Running

Sounds

Low 1 3,7,13

13 Faint

Screams

Screaming in

the Distance

Low 1 14


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14 BB Gun

Firing

Shot Sounds High 1 10

15 Birds Pigeons Low 8 0

16 Birds Flying Flying Sounds Low 1 14

17 Giant Door In

Castle/Scene

End

High 1 0

18 Banes

Voice

Voice over High 1 3,7

19 Friends

Voice

Voice over High 1 3,7

20 Devil Sign Sign of Devil High 1 17

Digital Photo

These photos resemble how the terrain will look in Fatal. The top left shows alandscape of how close the castle grounds will be towards the ocean, while the top

right shows how the terrain and ground will look for the pathways in between

some areas. As for the last picture on the bottom, it will resemble an area in which

a battle scene will take place, where Bane has to take down some enemies and

throw them into the vicious rocks and waters below.


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Flash or 3DsMax Example


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Video Resolution and Aspect Ratio

With Fatal, we are going to achieve full performance to make this game lookrealistic as possible. With that in mind, our video resolution and aspect ratio will

be suited more towards the major platforms that will be able to handle the

resolution as well as the aspect ratio. Anybody with an older T.V. Or a lower

system will not be able to purchase this game because it won't be able to be

compatible with the graphics cards or the resolutions. The typical resolution we

will make for this game will be geared towards 1920 x 1080, this way the PS3, X

box 360, and some PC's will be able to support this graphically enhanced game.

With most of our scenes we will have a 16:9 aspect ratio so that we can give a

more broad spectrum of views to show the user how graphic this game really is. It

will also allow us to show the full landscape as we would like to show it, such as

the photograph of the ocean line (above). With scenes such as those, we will show

the panoramic views as much as possible, but we will also bring the ratio down to

support close visuals of the characters emotions as well as some battle scenes that

take place. Eventually, we may create the game towards the lower scale resolution

models, but for now this game will be graphically enhanced enough to only show

on certain platforms.

Sound

Audio

The audio effects are going to be realistic when it comes to the sounds of gun fire

and several weapons. As for the music in the background we will have several different


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variations depending on the mission you are doing. An example is that if you were to be

playing a mission at night and you had to sneak around some place then we would make

it so that the music would be eerie or creepy. If you were to be out in plain daylight in a

combat environment against enemies then we will put some faster/upbeat music in the

background to get your adrenaline pumping to enhance the flow of game play.

Sound Design Document

Style

The style with Fatal is going to be adaptive yet consistent at the same time. The

meaning of this style that will be in this game will change to certain aspects and certain

areas. Each area will have its own music to it and as the character moves towards

something that is of importance such as; enemies, objects, other areas of the map, the

game will adapt and change the tempo and the type of soundtrack that is playing. An

example of this is when the character is in the forest you will hear animals that live there,

hear the wind, and more as if you were right there in the forest, but as you edge out of the

forest and into a cave, for example, you will begin to hear eerie background music,

dripping water, and possibly if your close enough to some enemies, some sounds that

define the enemy character. As you fight and play regularly the tempo with either

increase or decrease depending on how you are, such that in a fight the tempo will be

fast, but as you kill enemies the tempo will slowly decrease so you feel that emotion of

almost completing the task. This will heighten the emotions towards the game because

instead of having the tempo be the same throughout the fight scene, the tempo eases in

and out of the fighting rather than jumping into it, unless its a surprise. Another way of

describing how this sound is going to flow is by looking at how the weather will affect


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the sound because in this game the weather will change constantly whether its just day to

night or day to a storm. Lightning storms will bring more eerie music into the game

rather than happy easy going music that relaxes you, which will be used when it is sunny

and nothing is going on at the moment. The sound in this game will enhance the players

ability to become locked into the game play and never want to put the game down

because of the adaptability of the sound, but also how consistent it is when doing certain

animations or being in certain areas.

Types/Assets

This game will be an adaptive audio type, which will allow for the change of the

background music to go from anywhere between happy to eerie. Being able to do this

will allow the user to feel the full experience of emotions that even the character

experiences in the game. There will be sound effects to moves, moving, fighting,

creatures in the distance, trees blowing in the wind (when wind picks up), jumping,

explosions, dripping water in caves, when weather changing occurs, all of the weapons,

and a sound for just about everything, but we will have all the sounds seem real. The way

we will do this is by recording how each object sounds in real life and bring that

recording into the game at that moment. This will give the game that sound of being real.

As far as the character voices go, we will have voiceovers for each character that has a

part in the dialogue. This will allow us the ability to be able to put a variety of different

voices and sounds into our game to make it more entertaining in the game itself. As far as

the main character goes as well, you will customize which voice you would like starting

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to choose the way the main character will sound giving them their own feeling of a

personal main character.

Transitions

Changes in the sound during the game occur when the user changes areas in the

map. It will also happen when the weather changes, when you go into battle the tempo

increases, as the character moves to different areas such as a cave you will hear eerie

music, and as the character moves toward enemies you will hear them get louder and

louder. Depending upon where the user is and where they want to go the music will adapt

and change to where the user is to give them that full experience of emotions that we

want them to.

Production

Production Plan

Staffing Plan

Concept Pre-Production Production

May

11

Jun

11

Jul

11

Aug

11

Sep

11

Oct

11

Nov

11

Dec

11

Jan

12

Feb

12

Mar

11

Apr

11

Producer 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Assistant

Producers

1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Associate

Producers

1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2


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Design

Director

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Designers 3 3 3 6 6 6 6 6 10 10 10 10

Technical

Director

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Software

Engineers2 2 2 7 7 7 7 7 12 12 12 12

Art

Director

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Artists 3 3 3 5 5 5 5 5 15 15 15 15

Audio

Director

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Audio

Engineers

1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Q/A

Director,

Testers

3 3 3 3

Staff

Headcount

15 15 15 28 28 28 28 28 52 52 52 52

As for the actual roles and responsibilities of the group itself all positions willhave a set role that they will need to handle themselves and be sure to get all their

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feedback to everyone, making sure were making deadlines, and making the

ultimate decisions. The design team and director will be creating the levels,

characters, models, art, and designing the layouts, levels, and what will happen in

the game. Also, the technical director and programming team will be sure to write

the program, make sure that the code is correct, and create the architecture and

foundation for the game. The art director and art team will create the art style

guide, the foundation for our game, and all of the images for the game, they will

also create the 3D imagery if need be. Sound will be managed by the audio

director and audio team and they will create the background noise, the level of the

noise, what will occur, when it will occur, and how to handle all the sounds.

Lastly, the QA testers will be sure to play the game and test it out to allow for

smooth game play and to assure the team that the game is ready for shipping.

Milestones

Regular Buildso We will have builds every day after the first two weeks of

designing and programming is done so that we can run tests and

make sure the program is running at tip-top shape. The Design

Director and the Lead Programmer will work out anything that has

problems together so that the job gets done in a manageable

fashion. After each day there will be a build saved separately so

that we can keep track to see where we were and how we are

doing.


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First Playableo After creating the demo level for one of the beginning missions

you will be able to play the game as if it was ready for shipping.

This level will be at the beginning and will deal with you finding

out the beginning towards the story of how and what happened. It

will then go into teaching you how everything works and

functions. This will allow for a full demo of the game at the

beginning to draw in the users that will want to buy this game and

to give the publishers something to go off of.

Alphao After about 6-8 weeks from the first playable the alpha version of

Fatal will be available for playability. Although in the test phase

this will give the full demo with some bugs in the game to show to

the publishers. We will have all of the functions and levels into the

game allowing the game to be fully designed, but not fully

developed.

Betao About four weeks after the alpha version comes out there will be a

beta version with the game content locked into the game. There

may still be some bugs that need to be worked out, but everything

in the game is done designing and should be fully functional for

the most part.

Release Candidate


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o With the beta finished and after a couple of weeks of refinementand tuning the game is ready and set as a release candidate. This

will allow for the game to be playable in every way, but will not be

shipped and will be rigorously tested by the QA Testers to ensure

the playability and readiness of the game.

Gold Mastero After about 3-4 weeks from the release candidate and with all the

QA testing done the gold master copy of the game will be ready

for manufacturing. Compatibility testing will be performed to

ensure readiness as well, but marketing will be done as well to get

the name of the game out there.

Localizationo As for the changing of languages, we will ensure a 6 week waiting

period to countries such as; Japan, China, Korea, Spain, Mexico,

Italy, etc. This will allow us time to change what needs to be

changed to ensure quality and exact detail in getting everything

correct with the languages.

How will you avoid feature creep and slippage and ensure that your teammeets these deadlines?

oThe way that we would avoid feature creep and slippage issues

would be by making sure everyone stays on their tasks at hand,

they are always working with a group or partner, and the producer

has enough knowledge of knowing what can be put in and what he


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has to say stop to. Producers are the whole reason why feature

creep can hurt production because they dont know how to say

no to an idea that could be added, when they should have just

stuck with the original idea and plan to keep the game on time.

Even though some feature creep ideas may make the game better,

the game was designed with good intent to lure the user in to

playing this game, so I believe that any feature creep ideas would

take the team off track and cause problems in the later stages of

production, so it is up to the producer to make sure that no feature

creep issues hurt the game production later on. Also to keep the

ideas at a minimum, if the designer or programmer want to add a

new idea while working on a portion of the game then they should

have a valid argument and excuse as to why this idea will help the

game, if the producer sees fit that it is a good idea then it would be

OK with me because the producer knows what is best. Also the

producer should have seen ideas like those coming so they should

have planned for some polishing time when they were scheduling

the whole game project, which would allow for reasonable amount

of time to work out the problems from these feature creep issues.

The way we will combat the slippage issue will be through careful

and precise planning in the concept stages. This will allow for

extra time to be allowed for when slippage may occur, but it

shouldnt due to the increased amount of planning and


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brainstorming that should have been done during the concept idea

period. We will also keep communication at a maximum forcing

people to let the producer where they are at, allowing the producer

to monitor where they are every day, making sure that the project

stays on track and in line as well.

3 Tasks

Task

Name

Description Start

Date

Due

Date

Time

Estimate

Dependencies Person(s)

Assigned

Weaponconcept

art

Design anddraw detailed

and colored

weapons thatwill be added

to the game.

Also design3D designs

for a future

layout.

May14,

2011

May28,

2011

2-3

Weeks

Weaponimages are

taken;

Bitmaps aresetup, Pre-

drawings of

weapons donein 2D.

Lead Designer,Concept Artist,

3D Artist,

Producer

DesignMain

Characters

Create 3D

images ofLuke, Karhn,

and Bane.

Asses the

major detailstowards the

body and

face makingsure they

look realistic

in the design

face.

May30,

2011

June18,

2011

3-4

Weeks

2D images are

drawn,Layouts and

sizes are

made, and all

charactershave pre-

drawn designs

for 3Drendering.

Lead Designer,

3D Artist,2D Artist,

Art Director,

Programming

Team


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DesignLevel

Layouts

Use 2D

images to

replicate the

layout of thelevels. After

that asseswhat theworld

coordinate

system willbe and

continue to

design 3D

models anddesigns of

newly

designedlevels.

Sep20,

2011

Oct10,

2011

4-5

Weeks

2D images are

drawn to

scale, world

coordinatesystem is set,

Pre-setimages of alllevels are

designed.

Art

Director/Team,

Technical

Director,Programming

Team,Lead Designer,Associate

Producer

Marketing

Target Market

The targeted market for Fatal is going to be a mix between a first person shooter

and an RPG mixed fan base. This will give us two huge groups of followers that will be

primarily older and can buy this game because it is targeted towards mature rated users.

The ideal targeted market that this game targets is the players who enjoy first person

shooters such as modern warfare, and these people will most likely be between the age of

mid teens all the way up to mid thirty's mainly because these people have a steady

income and are interested in RPG shooters. This game will be directed toward people

who love shooters with some fantasy involved, we will create a new world which will

have modernized technology with the fantasy of characters from out of this world

moves and characteristics. We will focus on the modern aspect of the shooting games


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with new guns that are featured in war today along with all the other weapons you can

have, but we will also incorporate the use of character specialty moves. This will enhance

the play of the RPG aspect of the game, giving the realistic effect from the modernized

game play aspect and the fantasy aspect with the several moves that the characters can

perform at times. A lot of the audience will be targeted toward any place near GameStop

or any video game market store. Most of their characteristics involve the age mentioned

before and most likely a person without a family who lives on their own and a person

with an older aged family with kids in the mid teens or so.

Competitive Analysis

One major competitor in our game is a game that incorporates the same concept

as a shooter/RPG game, but they are an espionage game in which you primarily have to

creep around and kill, whereas, we are primarily an open combat shoot em up, kind of

game in open land. The reason we have an advantage over this game is that we will offer

open combat with multiple characters that all have different personalities and one

character that is especially fun to use, Karhn.

Another big series that would be a huge threat would be called Fable, this game is

a huge RPG based game that incorporates all aspects of weapons, such as; bows, guns,

grenades, swords, etc. Our advantage over the competition with this game, however, is

that we offer the modern type of game play with new guns that are being used today and

the perfect combat that has the most realistic feeling of war. We enhance the game play

from Fable by bringing it to the modern use of warfare today, which will intrigue more

people than just people that are interested in RPGs.


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The third game that would be a huge competition to us would be Borderlands.

That game is very addictive and fun and it focuses on all the same aspects that Fatal will

as well. Borderlands takes place in a mercenarys world, however, which allows for fun

and destruction, but can lack on the mission sides of things. The advantage that we will

have over this game is that our missions are a big part of our storyline, and we focus on

the game being as modern as possible with some cool effects from the character Karhn.

This will give the users who love modern game play a sense of love towards the game, as

the RPG and effects and moves from the characters will also.

Marketing Plan

Marketing Summary

Although marketing a video game whether it is good or bad may be difficult,

Fatal presents a good basis to help get its name out there. The whole reason behind this is

because the name itself, it wasnt chosen randomly, but it was chosen to get the attention

of the users. It seems to be a word that jumps out at you and makes you curious of; what

does it mean? What is so fatal about this game? What is it about? It seems to keep people

interested and thats what we are going to market this game behind, is its name. Weve

come up with several ways to promote this game through marketing by advertising,

promoting, and even going far enough to set up a personal website as well.

One of the ways that we will be advertising Fatal is through magazines with Gamestop

and Gamespot. Both of these companies have outstanding game magazines to provide a

wide base of followers along with a strong background of having a good reputation. What

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out there immediately and effectively. Another way that we will have our video game get

its name out there is to conduct interviews for local gaming channels and online sites that

show how the game was made and what we expect the game to be like. These interviews

should boost our reputation for Fatal tremendously due to the fact that Gamestop itself

always has their own T.V. channel running inside every single one of their stores. One

minor way that we could also go about this promotion is to do some in-game advertising

with other companies. We can advertise our game name inside other games, especially

those that are popular and of the same genre as ours so that we can attract the same

audience that will want to pre-order or buy the game right away. Adding on the fact that

in-game advertising can be a successful way to advertise Fatal, we will ask the gaming

company to see if they would add a special features area on the main screen, which will

show a trailer of our video game giving us more of a reputation and expanding the

knowledge to everyone else that Fatal will be coming soon. Knowing that the E3

convention and other conventions of that nature bring an enormous crowd, we will do

shows and expos at those conventions. We are going to make Fatal a bigger name than

any other game by getting the name of the game out there on bigger screens and more

intriguing setups as such. We will bring demos for people to try, screen shots of the

game, and designs and layouts of the game as well giving detailed information about

what the game will be like.

One big area of the gaming world now consists of the internet. We will be building a

home site dedicated to just Fatal, where there can be mini-games to play about the game,

storylines, layouts, art designs, and a full area dedicated to the countdown of the game

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draw in crowds up to the amount that the Fable and Call of Duty series always did. For an

added bonus to advertising our game we will also be giving away the beta versions

months before the game actually comes out just so that people can test out the game and

see what they think. It will include the first few levels which will be fully tested and bug-

free of course, and will get the user immersed into the game so badly that it will drive

them insane until the game actually comes out. The only catch to this is that the people

who want the beta version have to at least put five dollars down to reserve the game. This

will attract those players who actually want to play the game while making them put a

down payment on already wanting to buy the game, so they are more hooked than if they

hadnt already put a reserve copy aside for themselves. Lastly, we will be using the

internet to its full extent by advertising on any gaming sites that may have loads of traffic

from video game users of such. Our goal as the Fatal marketing team is to make this

game one of the biggest known and wanted games on the market today by; advertising,

building our own site, interviews, demonstrations, and handing out beta trial versions of

the game.


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References

Hight, John, and Jeannie Novak. Game Development Essentials: Game ProjectManagement. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

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