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Forest Game
Finn M, Verity, and Reese
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
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.