2008 and Prototypes WITH PICS

Hi everyone with all the cool plans lately i thought i would post what my small team been doing the past few months.

For the last 4+ years my time has been consumed with everything Illumina. My team decided to shelve a tgea version of illumina for now until we can rework it abit and give it a unique flavor that isnt trying to compete with the likes of gears of war/halo e.t.c . We definetely plan on getting back into it very soon, most likely with a completely different look to what ive shown previously.

So with us shelving Illumina for now, my small team decided starting working on some other prototypes. With my daughter recently turning 1 , ive found a unique appreciation for simple cartoony styles and designs (Must be all that Sesame Street and Wiggles). Seeing games like Team Fortress 2 with there very unique cartoon style brings a smile to my face :)

So both prototypes are fairly cartoony in design. But like the Lego Series of games we hope to appeal to both adults and children alike.

Toons Of War


Toons of war is our first prototype idea. Its heavily influenced by an old 2d game called Soldat

Soldat is an old 2d game that utilised excellent physics, cool guns and just frantic fast paced action. Im hoping to recreate that in a 3d Setting with some new twists and ideas.

- Fast paced gameplay (quick spawn times, quick weapon selection, fairly quick movement)
- Use of jetpacks for vertical gameplay (Floating levels/platforms)
- Additional use of "Force" powers to enhance the fast paced action. Force powers are akin to the halflife 2 physics gun as 1 example. Being able to do a quick hand movement , grab a nearby barrel and toss it at your enemy.

We also want to expand on the theme in the future to create all sorts of Worms like wacky theme levels. Space/Underwater/Pirates you name it, however the first prototype will deal entirely with modern day war themes but still in a wacky/cute style.

Marine


Terrorist


Heres some movies

Prerendered movie showing off the art style and environments we want to achieve in TGEA

First Model ingame and running/firing

Otoko

Otoko is a VERY different prototype from Toons Of War. We wanted to get away from the shooting aspect for this project. With heavy influences from zelda/banjo/mario ,we want to create a cute platform game which appeals to adults and kids (who doesnt want to be a ninja)

The lead character is a small boy by the name of Otoko



The world is a simply redone dungeon pack at this stage though we hope to give it a more wacky feel soon. We want to mix both the platforming of mario with the swordfights/dungeon exploration of zelda.

Some early rendering attempts using my very basic texture editing skills :)

Ink



Patch



and finally the look we decided to settle on









The "Jigsaw" style is something not found in many games so we think its a cool style to explore. We hope to increase it more with puzzle shaped trees/platforms and enemies and incorporating lego style build mechanics into it (Walk up to a pile of jigsaw pieces and build a platform or bridge)

At this stage Otoko will be purely a singleplayer/coop prototype.

We are always looking for help , so if there are any programmers or artists who like our ideas and want to help out let me know :)

Our small team currently consists of Matt Vitelli,Sean Boyette and myself and we would love to get more people onboard. We arent aiming for complete games at this stage, just fun prototypes that will move onto more fleshed out games.

Sorry about the large screens, ill attempt to resize them later.

Regards

Ian Roach