Sunday, 12 March 2017

Tales Of Darkness

Tales of Darkness 

Hello guys,
Today I am going to talk about why I changed my project from a horror farm setting into a character design project for an RPG game I am going to make in the future called Tales Of Darkness.










So what is Tales of Darkness?

Tales of Darkness is an RPG “Role Playing Game” set in a fantasy world called Alrad the land of the brave that I am going to work on in the future using a software called RPG maker.  RPG is a game genre where in the player controls a fictional character to do quests and level up.  My major project is going to consist of 6 fully coloured character designs in which 3 of them are evil while the other 3 are good to make the game even and fair. My characters in game are going to portray distinct persona's such as: Dave the scarecrow, Dante the demon and Reaper the collector of souls, while there is Jack the exorcist, Hunter and Aura the white witch. I chose the name “Tales of Darkness” for my game because the main component of the game narrative is that the evil in the world is in control over Alrad. You can see Dave the Scarecrow on your right.

I created this logo by my own by sketching it, inking it and colouring it with copic markers which is a simple process.  I thought that it would be a great idea to have my own game logo since it will make it unique on its own.  I chose orange and purple since it gives a fantasy like feeling to the game which is what I am aiming for.

Why I changed

The reason I changed from the horror farm to this project was because I did not think it was a good idea and it was too clichéd and not creative which made the project look bland for me.  So I went and changed my project into something exciting and different from what I do to challenge myself and feel inspired.

You might be thinking what is an RPG 

Just to repeat that RPG is a game genre where the player controls a fictional character to do quests and level the character up.  It is considered one of the most popular genres out in the game industry and they are mostly known for their gameplay and story. 

To add to that, many RPG games tend to be different than each other in how they are played, graphics and views. 



Final Fantasy 15



Diablo 3



Joe's Battle Chasers

These 3 games are considered RPG games but they are all different from each other although you do quests and level up your character.  The first picture shows the popular game Final Fantasy 15 published by the gaming company Square-Enix and as you can see, the camera angle is in 3D where you can lock around and explore the world.  Other games like Diablo 3 have a different angle for the player to play in which is the eagle view where you see the whole game from above.  Battle Chasers has quite the same view as Diablo 3 but the camera angle is a bit lower.  

Now let us talk about the gameplay, Final Fantasy 15 and Diablo 3 requires the gamer to control and move the character whenever they want and fight in an action packed game play (Basically command the character) while Battle Chasers is the type of RPG that is turned based (you still command the character but you will have to wait for your turn, you cannot attack freely).  Please watch the videos of how the games are played to understand fully.

You can see how every game is played from the links below:

Final Fantasy 15 Gameplay

Diablo 3 Gameplay

Battle Chasers Gameplay






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