Building Alliances - Brief Discussion/ First Meeting (01/10/24)

Me and my other teammates in I.D.I.O.T. Studios decided to arrange a discord call to discuss which brief we wanted to do and what ideas we had for each brief. We started by discussing which briefs we preferred individually and the reasons why.

Brief 1 - The impact of global warming on future of Nottingham

We had quite a few ideas for this brief and we made a list in our discord channel noting down the various ideas we had.

• Side Scroller
• Aquatic Theme
• Exploration + Parkour
• Reference to Bioshock
• Flooding, submerged cities underground
• Customisable outfits (Spray painted diving helmets etc)
• Food Chain

Brief 2 - The impact of microplastics on the human food chain 

We took more of an interest in this brief compared to the other two so we focussed majority of our discussion talking about the effect of microplastics.

• Plastic zombies/ fungus eating microplastics
• Recycled clothing
• We brought back the theme of flooding from the first brief and discussed how microplastics would effect the aquatic life forms.
• Mutant fish (from pollution?)
• Effects of microplastics on food chain, Perhaps some species have died out?
• Nature reclaiming land
• Open world style game?
• Reference to Remnant and The Last of Us
• Hostile mobs with gruesome deformities/ effects from the microplastics
• Cosmetics such as plastic infused armour/ weapons.
• Mini bosses and main bosses. Perhaps 1 boss for each area
• Designing and modelling some drops from these bosses
• Areas in game reflect natural disasters as a result of microplastics; forest fires, flooding, pollution, deforestation, ocean acidification, desertification
• Perhaps mc could be from the past and teleported to the future forced to explore this decaying world
• Bring in government? Involve propaganda? Maybe the government still exists and is encouraging the experimentation of microplastics
• Opposition searching/ developing a cure or a way to reduce the effect of the microplastics
• Perhaps mc was someone who fell for government propaganda and willingly allowed themselves to be experimented on before realising how messed up this was. Possibly escaped the facility and now battles through these monsters and mutants in search of a cure.

Brief 3 - Greening of the Sahara Desert

We didn't really know much about this topic and we discussed this one the least. We didn't really have any good immediate ideas for this and none of us really had a strong desire to want to do this brief either leading us to cross it of almost immediately.

Overall, this was a very insightful conversation. We narrowed down which briefs we were most comfortable with and have a rough direction/ genre we want to go with this game. I'm excited to discuss this project more with my teammates!