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Development Work - Matthew Scott

These are some assets of how the Pixel Style came to be and a few examples of characters in the different Styles.

The first 2 are other versions of the text box, the bamboo one looked alright but we were worried it would blending into the background if it were too brightly coloured.

The page of character heads were just quick sketch ideas for when we were coming up with character ideas.

The pixel test was to see what Pixel Character stye we would use for the characters. In the end we decided to use the Layton Style.

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BatteScreen Thumbnail - Matthew Scott

This is a thumbnail Image of how the battle sequence would look like in the game. It’ll be a side view of the characters, Enemies on the right, your allies on the left. The command menu on the lower screen and the boss health on the top, while smaller enemies and allies will have little health bars below the sprite.

Note: The Background and Seagull Boss were not created by Matthew, Background by Vicki and Seagull Boss by Katie. The other sprites and UI were created by Matthew.

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Menu UI Design - Matthew Scott

These are the Menu Ui Design to allow the player access the Characters, Items, Map, Profile and Options. I went with a map style look to fit the Pirate Theme. having an Icon to separate each option help clean the menu up.

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Text Box - Matthew Scott

This is the Style of Text Box that was decided on using for the speech interactions scenes. The background will grey out a little to let the speech box and characters stand out more.

Note: The two characters shown were created by Abbey.

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Character Battle Poses - Matthew Scott

These are the Pose Ideas for the 7 characters if they were in battle.

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BucketHead Walk Sprite - Matthew Scott

This is the original sprite of BucketHead before he was correctly proportioned to match the character styles that were later created.

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BucketHead Battle Sprite - Matthew Scott

These are sprite animation sheet and Gif of the character

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Pixel Characters - Matthew Scott

These are the pixelated Sprites for the following 7 sprites

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Backgrounds - Matthew Scott

These 2 show the different pixel style we would likely use for the background. We ended up choosing to use the outlined style (Second Image)

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Concept Sketches - Vicky

These are some concept character sketches I did for some of the boss characters.

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Rough Script - Vicky

I decided to make some rough scripts so that I can get an idea of the multiple choice questions and options in the game. Follow these links below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S_6BqhinBjbo7CnZbT9VaIeVIpWO8GA6Wke_x7x4aSU/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W5mGJkRQVQU_bzusf4g6SpK8YhuI6V52/view?usp=sharing

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Fight Background - Vicky

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Main Character Sprites - Vicky

Here are the two variations of sprites I used in the animatic.

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Mood Board and Game Explanation - Vicky (Personal Account)

I have taken various pictures that have inspired me during this project and compiled them into a mood board.

GAMEPLAY

For gameplay, we looked at undertale. This personally helped me get a good grasp at what the game would be like as it is an RPG game that gives you the choice of adding someone to your crew or not. You can build relationships as your travel through each island uncovering the secrets of the islands and putting together each piece of the treasure map. Each character can give you different stats, for example, if you have Gurney on your team, you would +2 Health. If you had Fingers on your team, you would have +2 intelligence. This would give you different experiences of gameplay.

In addition, you can build relationships within the game. In undertale you can choose to let a character live or die. In Jolly Roders, you can choose to have a character on your crew or not. You can also potentially marry that character.

Art Style

I decided to look at the art style of Hilda when lining my work. The brush looks rather sketchy and I thought that would look nice for the 2d stills of the characters. I also looked at Disney reference sheets for the Gulls to get a goofy style for the birds that is somewhat humanized but still very bird like. As for colour, I thought that a simpler more cartoony style could work well as it will immediately draw your attention to the character.

The backgrounds were based heavily on undertale as they are simple and you can easily navigate your way around the area (helpful for the younger players). I didn’t want too bright of colours as it would distract from the main sprite and characters.

I based the main character sprite on a mix of a Pokemon sprite and Professor Layton. It was simple and an walk cycle was quick and effective to animate. This would make it easier to animate any other characters who would walk around the area if they were to be animated in the same style.

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Early sketches and a pixel of Gurney. This character and his ship are filled with strange muppets and sesame street like magic. These puppets have a life of their own and seek human souls to add to their crew.

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Character Turn Arounds - Vicky

I tried doing several turn arounds to get an idea of the characters.

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Stewie Character Design - Vicky

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