The Red Giant is an action/adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world that appeals to both experienced and new players. It features combat, character progression through skills and traits, and exploration of large open environments. The developers plan to use Unity and other middleware to efficiently develop the game over 3.25 years with a team of programmers, designers, and artists.
The Red Giant is an action/adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world that appeals to both experienced and new players. It features combat, character progression through skills and traits, and exploration of large open environments. The developers plan to use Unity and other middleware to efficiently develop the game over 3.25 years with a team of programmers, designers, and artists.
The Red Giant is an action/adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world that appeals to both experienced and new players. It features combat, character progression through skills and traits, and exploration of large open environments. The developers plan to use Unity and other middleware to efficiently develop the game over 3.25 years with a team of programmers, designers, and artists.
The Red Giant is an action/adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world that appeals to both experienced and new players. It features combat, character progression through skills and traits, and exploration of large open environments. The developers plan to use Unity and other middleware to efficiently develop the game over 3.25 years with a team of programmers, designers, and artists.
The Red Giant is a gritty, new action/adventure game set in a fresh, vibrant, fictional environment that will appeal to both experienced and beginner players of the genre.
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Executive Summary The Red Giant is designed to appeal to a wide audience, with a huge variety of players attracting an interest in our game. Fans of popular genres such as, Action/adventure and RPG will be drawn to our game due to the familiar mechanics and controls. Our game also provides features that will appeal hugely to fans of MMORPG and shooter titles. Our online 'clan mode' pits multiple gangs against each other on a server based game world, this allows players to work together in attack, defence and resource gathering and ultimately 'grow' their clans influence on the game world. This, combined with the 3 rd person shooter nature of our game draws in a much wider audience than an action/adventure title would alone. Genre Action/adventure title with RPG and shooter mechanics Platform PC (Windows & Mac). Xbox360 and Playstation 3. Target Demographic Our game has an extremely wide audience that it is capable of reaching out to. Due to our titles violent and mature nature we are required to issue an age rating of; Core Mechanics The core mechanics of The Red Giant are what keeps our game stable and appealing to both new and existing fans of the genre. Combat – The vast lack of food and shelter in Ziopha has turned its few survivors feral, this requires the player to be able to defend themselves. Whether it be fending off an attack with a machete or attacking a stronghold with a rifle, the combat in our game is well choreographed and well designed. Our design and animation teams have gone to great lengths to ensure our games combat does not become repetitive and stagnant.
Traits & Skills – Traits and skills are our primary method for creating character uniqueness in The Red Giant. Frequent use of a particular weapon type will increase the players skill level with that particular type of weapon, every 10 skill levels the player achieves they gain a 'trait'. Traits allow the player to specialise in a number of options, these options can vary from permanent damage/accuracy increases to new skills and weapon modifications. These traits and skills allow players to become skilled with their favourite weapons or become a 'jack of all trades' with a huge variety of them. These decisions may have huge negative and positive effects later on in the game. Exploration – The Red Giant boasts some of the most expansive and detailed environments in gaming history. This is precisely why exploration is such a vital mechanic in our game. Much of our AI behaviour and events are unscripted, this allows for unique and completely unpredictable events, keeping exploration tense and exciting. This method also highly increases re-playability, making each play-through a unique experience. While travelling through the game world, whether it be the bleak wasteland or the daunting grey city, players will come across some very noticeable landmarks. These landmarks can contain vital supplies and other useful items that players need, yet they're notoriously dangerous places to venture through. This places a gain > risk consideration upon the player, making exploration again more exciting.
Milo's Hideout Story & Character Setting The Red Giants narrative follows, Marc Allen, a retired survivalist living in the remains of the Ziopha mainland 4 years after ''the wave''. The wave was triggered after the suns premature evolution caused the destruction of several planets and severely damaging the Earth. Marcus must set out and build a haven for survivors, protecting them from the local gangs and looters. This task pits, Marc, against the leaders of the most brutal gangs on the mainland, including the infamous Exiles. Leo Nexx, leader of the Exiles is protected by his 2 henchmen and his own personal army of survivors, this makes the Exiles a huge stumbling block for Marc's plans. The Exiles are not the only threat to Marc's plans of making a safe haven for survivors. Milo Tagen and the Red Sun gang populate the lower regions of the city, while Tori Larsson provides a religious sanctuary for survivors to the North-West.
A face off in Granen
Technical Considerations Our development team will be using a modified version of the Unity engine. Our decision to use this engine is down to UnityCode and C# compatibilities and real-time editing. Our team will also be making use of the message-orientated middleware system (MOM). This system will allow members of our team to communicate easily and efficiently without creating unnecessary downtime and having a serious effect on production schedules. In our insistent desire to keep our development process organized we have also incorporated the use of a game library to host our programming teams code. The Allegro 5 library will allow our team to access existing and archived code and game functions easily and safely, all in one location. This ease of access will drastically speed up the development process allowing more time for bug fixes before release. The Red Giant will also make use of SpeedTree and Fork Particle middleware, allowing a more comprehensive render of in-game trees and particle effects.
East Ziopha 1 22 3 4 55 5 6 7 8 9 Unique Selling Points ● Vast, hugely detailed campaign and multiplayer environments. ● 3 campaign factions to side with, each with individual quest lines. ● Brand new IP combining three of todays most popular genres; Action/adventure, RPG and shooter. ● 60 vs 60 player online clan mode, allowing for large scale PvP gameplay.
A 'clan mode' team fort.
Competitive Analysis When Hot Snail Studios sat down at the design stage we aimed to create a completely new IP, a game style that has been seldom seen in the industry. This desire for a unique game results in generating very little competition, this gives us a good level over control over this niche market. ●Fallout series (upcoming Fallout MMO by MastHead Studios). ●The Last of Us (Action/adventure title being released Q2 2013). These 2 titles have both similar core mechanics and a similar art style to The Red Giant, yet lack many of the features that make our title truly outstanding. The popularity of the Fallout franchise and the outstanding success that Naughty Dog studios has had with the Uncharted series proves that there is much life in this genre yet.
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● Immersive narrative ● Immersive narrative ● Immersive narrative ● Character ● Character progression ● Large environments
Progression ● Large environments ● Social interaction
● Large environments ● Competitive multiplayer ● Teamwork based multiplayer ● Competitive ● Fast-paced combat ● Huge re-playability
multiplayer ● Huge re-playability
● Social interaction ● Huge re-playability Schedules Our team have put together a development timeline to five you an idea of how we will use our development time efficiently: Inspiration ? Getting the global idea for our game.
Duration: 1 Month. People: Lead Designer, team discussion.
Outcome: Concept document, decision to continue
Design Stage ? Preparing complete design of game.
Duration: 3 Months.
People: Design team & prototype programmers/artists.
Result: Completed game design document
Prototype & Pitch
? Prototypes for proof of concept.
Duration: 3 Months.
People: Programmers, art team, Q/A team & project manager.
Result: Development go ahead, funds secured.
Blue-print
? Technical specification documents
Duration: 2 Months.
People: Lead Designer, Software planner
Result: Several specific specifications
Architecture
? Creating a technical design that specifies tools & technologies used.
Duration: 2 Months.
People: Project leader, software planner, lead architect.
Result: Full technical specification.
Tool Building
? Create tools, modify engine, level builders etc.
Duration: 4 Months.
People: Project leader, programmers.
Result: Tools for development in place.
Assembly/Game Development Create game based on Game Design Document, updating ? GDD and Story Bible as we go
Accounting for unavailable/unpredictable difficulties and delays arising, our game will go from concept to gold master and release in 39 months, (3.25 years).
Yhern Highway Budget We have compiled a list of expenses that we will encounter through development: Expense Quantity Cost Tools and Resources Unity Engine Licenses 15 £30,000 Programmers Salaries 12 £576,000 Designers Salaries 8 £408,000 Art Team Salaries 8 £408,000 Voice Acting Cast Salaries 6 £51,000 Miscellaneous Software - £10,000 Emergency Funds - £1,100,000 Marketing Costs TV Advertisements - £4,000,000 Magazine Advertisements - £800,000 Web Advertisement - £1,200,000 Exhibitions/Media Reviews - 1,000,000 Total - £9,583,000 The Team Dale Marks - Programmer
● Began career at, Bigname Games.
● Cubic ● Raining Fire ● Before Dawn ● The Watchers ● Prong 2
● Venture ● In-Hiding ● The Recluse ● The Scene All in all our game is a breath of fresh air in a increasingly stagnant, yet vastly popular genre. The Red Giant will generate interest from fans of the RPG, Action/adventure and 3rd person shooter genres, massively increasing our potential consumer market and therefore elevating the potential sales of our game.
We hope that we have managed to make you as excited by The Red Giant as we are, and can see the huge potential of our game, thank you for taking the time to listen to us today and we look forward to working with you.
