game description

 Forest game is an exploration/adventure-based game featuring forest creatures as well as a charming Saytr named Thorn. The game was created using Unity and Photoshop to achieve a unique pixilated style of design. When traveling through the forest Thorn encounters new friends and creatures and see's the first-hand effect of deforestation through his discovery of the nearby kingdom's lack of empathy for mother nature. Forest game is a playful and fantastical perspective of deforestation and how it affects all creatures and beings. Characters in the game learn to adapt to changing environments, cultivate resources, protect their ecosystem, and make a home out of an ever-changing environment. 

Game Precedents And Inspiration

Initial brainstorming

Surface Story

Main Theme/Moral

Main Character

Environment

Clues (Significant Objects and Characters)

Working around the destruction of resources by using the wasted material

A satyr in the woods, reliant on the resources left behind by humans.



Slowly diminishing forest near an expanding kingdom.



(1) Stumps, less trees the further you go to kingdom

(3) Refusal to take material from alive and healthy trees.

(2) Thorn needs an item to go into the human kingdom

(4) Color pallet changing as trees get cut down

Hidden Story

Animals being pushed out of their habitats. Creators that have to work around less material.

Forests and other biomes on earth



(1) Fewer trees the further you go towards civilization

(3) Trying to preserve what there is left

(2) Unwillingness to accept certain solutions 

(4) Society and nature changing from deforestation

Logging and expansion causing harm to others



Habitat, home, and trade loss as a result of said resource destruction

deforestation/

resource misuse

Logging and Expansion

Habitat, Home, and Trade Loss

Allegory Map

Environment Concept 1 - Finn

Color Pallette

Mood: Calm | Setting: Forest

Environment Concept 2 - Verity

DIGITAL Collage

PHYSICAL Collage

Mood: Crowded | Setting: Kingdom

Environment Concept 3 - Reese

DIGITAL Collage

PHYSICAL Collage

Inspiration Image

Inspiration Image

Mood: abandoned | Setting: barren forest

Add images of any additional sketches, character work, etc. that you have created

Character Design

Game Play Diagram

Scene 1: Thorns Cave

 Scene 2: Trader Stall

Scene 3: forest starts to thin

 Dying forest

 Reforestation starts

Chops up stumps

and flax to make

something new

Use material, create

fabric and paper for

 trade

Find out what's for

trade today

 Wakes up

 You can make fabric

and other items out of

pulp and flax

 Collect material

 Gets Tipped off to

a new patch of

stumps

 Scene 5: Kingdom enterence

 Trade your way

into the kingdom

to explore

 Get into kingdom,

Trade, convince the

humans to replant

the forest

Scene 6: Kingdom

Asset Evolution

(Highlight 3 Assets - Characters, Backgrounds, or Objects - that have significantly improved with feedback and iteration)

Initial Sketch

Iteration

Initial Sketch

Iteration

Final Image

Initial Sketch

Iteration

Final Image

Game Play Highlight

Thorn about to enter the kingdom