Studio 4 - Starting Assignment 1

A concept artist is an individual who generates visual reference for an object (like weapons, armor and vehicles) or being (like a character or creature) that does not yet exist. This includes, but is not limited to, film production, and more recently video game production. - Wikipedia

General Ideas

To come up with a concept of a video game for my assignment 1, I have been browsing through a collection of films and old video games for inspiration. The old video games range from Dizzy the Egg on the Amiga, through games from the sega mega drive, snes, n64, master system 1 & 2, Playstation 1, 2 & 3 and across the spectrum of PC games.

There is such a variety of video games that have been brought out over the decades, that to create something that isn't expanding on another idea and has the originiality to last the ages is extremely difficult.

One of the general concept ideas that I have been coming up with over the past few weeks is the following:

The Final Ascension - The general concept idea for this game is that the user will be able to take control of a civilisation from the history books and bring them alive in the future, ahead of our time.

Background story: The date is 24.04.2666, the Cyanites (a race consisting of only dark matter with the ability to linger in our shadows and in the darkness) have invaded planet earth and left the planet in a devastated ruin with minimal natural resources left.

Only one top secret goverment base survived the attack, barely. Located undergound and with the ability of time travel now possible; the fate of the planet rests in the hands of one scientist, the only remainning human survivor. The only problem is - during the Cyanites attack the time machine was broken and can only bring the far past to the far distant future.

You must take control of the time machine, choose your target location and date carefully to bring back an army to fight off the Cyanites and help rebuild Earth.

More Info: The user of this game would be able to bring back any type of civilization and it's army to try and fight off these dark matter monsters. The civilization could be any of the following: saxons, romans, nomads, samurai, small part of the allied troops (world was 1), renegades (these would be a specialised unit unlocked after completing the game once - the characters would be based on concept art taken of Cloud - a character from Final Fantasy 7)