GAD 551 Level Design Journal Collections

”Starting the Game Design”

Reference Mood board Examples:

Moodboard for Character and Environment Level design example #1s

Moodboard for Character Reference and Required Colour Palette example #2

My first mood board was the reference of the character making, the game mechanic, narrative cutscenes, level design, the type of platform and snow background settings as part of game ideas. I wanted the character to be demi-human, wearing the blue snowy costume in the cold environment. I also want a penguin NPC to be part of the background. Winter place with other characters can be interesting. The second mood board is how I used the given colour pallette and more character reference to design the main character of the game.

Process of Designing Character and their Costume

Character Concept art Image

Final Concept of the Player Character Image

A humanoid wild cat does have some cuteness outside. However, I design this character because it's trying to survive the bizarre black world of frost. Making a Cat character wearing a blue winter hoodie should be obvious because the environment is so cold.

My Character Pixel Art with 32-bit and 16-bit version

32-bit Pixel Sprite

16-bit Pixel Sprite

I tried putting them on 16-bit but, the character doesn't have style and, it doesn't look cute too, so I chose 32-bit because that way, the character's appearance and face can blend in the game

The Game’s Concept Settings

Concept of Mountain Pixel Background Image

As for making the pixel background, I tried to make a snow mountain and put a brighter colour. Part of the ground has snow to be added. It's just a concept art of setting background ideas I made.

Partner's Mood board and Enemy Ideas

Partner's Moodboard Ideas

Partner's Enemy Concept Art Ideas

His Moodboard shows an image collection of horrifying and chaotic-looking monsters that defines the horror aspect of the game, those kinds of monsters are the reference to the intimidating enemies in the game. One of the examples is the concept art enemy that can open its mouth too wide for the player to jump over like an Alaskan bull worm.

(Other Alternate Ideas that are not Included in Future Updates)

Alternate Mood board Ideas #1

Alternate Moodboard Ideas #2

Some other ideas include adding a desert place where the main character, a wanted fugitive, must disguise by the sand to avoid getting caught by the black assassins.
Another alternative idea was using a forest environment filled with ruins and broken castles. The main character is a detective who will find answers and explore historical places before she gets caught by strange enemies.