SamSzymSketch

[Samszym]

Still alive! Just haven;t been carign enough to scan any drawings. I might start usiong the camera more, it's harder to see the drawings but it doesn't really matter if I'm not intending to clean them up :/

I had a couple ideas for an indie game and a comic series I want to try and develop, we'll see how that goes! Gonne copypaste some stuff I said about the game in another forum below the art stuff :v



This is an idea I came up with a couple weeks ago drawing from a realization that in a lot of platformer and puzzle games, the entire quest of the hero would have been completely impossible if, say, a ledge was just one foot further away and ungrabbable, or there was just one less key to open a door in a dungeon.

This game presents the classic hero overcoming a dungeon to rescue the kidnapped princess setup, but the twist is that it's absolutely impossible for him to get past the first level. Fortunately, you're not playing as him.

While he bumbles around the ground floor of the castle the extremely adept princess has managed to break free of her imprisonment and kill the final boss with ease using her psychic powers. She intends intending to walk out the door and forget any of this crap ever happened but to her dismay, the only way out is through a huge, magically reinforced door that can only be opened by the hero of the game. Who is of course still stuck on level one, continually walking into a pit of instant death spikes.



So, ya :U this is a puzzle-platformer I'm talking with some friends about developing for fun, the game itself will be you controlling the princess' astro-projection-ghost thing to move stuff in the level around and making it possible for the hero to advance. It's supposed to be really funny and tongue in cheek, with a lot of the humor coming from the princess doing all the work and getting continually annoyed by the inept protagonist, who of course thinks he's doing all the work himself. The poor, stupid, repeatedly dying sap.

Here's some sketches for the main characters



the first task ahead of us is to define what the relationship between the princess and the hero is exactly and finding exactly where the humor and entertainment value is so we can build on that. One idea on the table is having the princess get sent to the beginning of the dungeon with the hero and physically walk through the dungeon along with him so they can play on each other's character's more. I'm not sure if I want the hero to be aware of the princess' presence or not, or if I want them to have any dialogue, or what system to make the game in, or if the controls should be WASD or point-and-click o_o lots of descisions