Maze outer area

'Key' Ideas

Here are some ideas that were floating around in my head during Easter for more puzzles and the theme of the maze:

3 Differen Keys for Different Purposes

• Regular Coloured key (colours will differ to indicate door it matches. Old school)
• Theme key (for special rooms with context)
• FINAL key (for the exit)

Also I'm realising now that perhaps the keys don't actually have to be keys, but cryptical objects, I don't know, maybe if you are trying to unlocked a themed room, you must find an object that goes with the theme. Like the typical one would be dolls, a little girl's room full of creepy dolls. Find 3 pieces of a broken doll and you get access to the doll room. Once you walk in, you'll find the reminants of a horror story, something terrible that happened there.

User Interface Concept

Concpet for Scaleform UI




Pause screen

Death screen

Monster Final Concept

Monster Iteration 02

Monster Iteration 01

Here is a better dedicated iteration of the monster, The hooded and white-faced figure attracted me, but I also found it reminded me of existing monsters from games I've recently played (Alice: Madness).
I'm using this as a last chance to choose a suitable design for a monster. Some feedback would be suitable.

Monster Concepts- A Variety

I finished my monster concepts. These are all different kinds I would originally use if the game were bigger and I had more time to complete it. However for this project it will just be possible designs of the one monster I hope to have running around, noisy enough for the player to come.

Name and Logo

Monster Itterations- WIP

I have been looking into creating other types of monsters, and have created a second mood board. My game should only have one. But I believe I reached the design of a monster too quickly (skipping a step which is iterating designs). These however a slightly more human.

I am still in the process of creating more monsters. With some finished designs I will then create variations of the chosen monster. Chances are I will stick to the four-legged monstrosity as it gives a bit of difference in anatomy. The creature with the wheel to the left is one of my favourites from this bunch.

Horror Maze Concept 03

Cecilia's Dress

Cecila- Victorian Anatomy study

I have looked into various books with illustrations and photographs of women from the 19th Century. As most people know, Victorian women wore almost ridiculously tight corsets from a young age (to the point that their rib cages had trouble developing). I wanted to take the forms from the photos and especially the illustrations, as they seem to express what Victorians considered beautiful/perfect/pleasant to look at.
The round and sunken shoulders for example is very obvious in many victorian illustrations/paintings of women.

Eye colour is very important to me, I feel because survival horror tends to lean towards the more monochrome tones, colours that exist anywhere in design will stand out a lot more than usual. However I do plan to give my level colour. Cecilia is a very important figure in the level.

Blocking out Character

I have finished modelling and rigging a basic female body form that will act as a make-shift model in the presentation of my Pitch.

I still have not full decided how she will look, hopefully I will get some feedback on which design is most desirable.

I am well on my way to blocking out a basic monster character for my pitch too. This is not the final design, but for now will do.

I added more hairstyles for the character I'm creating, there are so many variations, that I will leave it to feedback to help me decide which character is more suitable.

Monster Concept

Title of enemy: The Terror

A more human version, this was not chosen.

Rough chosen concept

I sketched a few monsters out, but ultimately decided I wanted something that was similar to a spider, but made of metal. The monster must make a bit of noise when walking- almost like blades hitting the floor the above image is almost a perfect representation of what I want in a monster.

Main Character concept roughs

Main Character's names: Cadence, Maddie, Lilly, Elise, Rosa, Ingrid, Cecillia.

This will be taken down after I elaborate on these sketches. Let me know what you think?
I am after a Victorian 'lost-girl' look. Currently I'm deciding on the style of art. To either go for a caricatured look (first picture) or a more realistic face (second picture) which is actually based on a real person's face.

Victorian clothes:
I collected images to help me conceptualise the clothes of the main character.

First Simple Concept Sketches

Quick Concept sketches
 Here were a few sketches I made early on before I had figured out the game play mechanics. The first sketch you see was based on a nightmare I had one night. However I don't think that the characters suite my game idea so well now....

Here is an example concept- quickly made with the help of pasted textures. It really lacks material and whatever horror theme there should be on the interior, but I wanted to try my hand at creating a monster.