Sprint 2 Character Design

Introduction

This is the document detailing the new character design added in by Team3 during sprint2.

Design Considerations

(Place holder feel free to delete this) The previous player designed was too human-like and was redesigned to make it look more threatening and have more of a 'sci-fi' aesthetic.

Concepts

Inspirations

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Mock-ups

Here are some of the mockups ideas for the new player model.

The idea was to have a character with no legs and its arm will signify its movement(inspired by EVE from Wall-E). The idea is quickly scrapped since having a model with no legs in a game call RunTime seems unfitting. The lack of legs also limits the range of animation that can be created.

All the mockups above look robotic.

Then later on it was decided to take inspiration from the real-life virus to make the model more monster-like.

Implemented Assets in Game

Finalised Character Design

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Method of Implementation

The design of the player is animated along with different power-up icons. There are sprite sheets for the basic movement of the character with no icons above its head. Then icons will be added to the basic movement sprite sheet to account for all the different buff/debuffs the player gets.

The following image shows some of the animation stills implemented, specifically for when the player is running.

The image below shows the animation stills of the player with the speed increase buff, as an example of how the buff/debuff icons are implemented.