Final Major Project
The big one everyone's been waiting for, and it's about:
Retro
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Brief
Brief
My initial thoughts on the brief are that the theme, retro, has a lot of potential; however, I don't have many ideas that I'm interested in using to make a game. Because lots of things can be considered retro, and there are a lot of "retro" style things within the gaming industry, I don't think it will be too hard to come up with an idea. I'll just have to get a list of ideas and choose my preferred one.
Week 1 - Initial Ideas & Pecha Kucha
02 / 03 / 2026
Week 1 - Initial Ideas & Pecha Kucha
02 / 03 / 2026
Initial Ideas Mood Board
Initial Ideas Mood Board
Before doing any work, I needed to get my initial ideas about the theme down. This mostly included my main thoughts, which are old video games, and then I expanded on the style I imagined, which I would most probably be using.
For now, the only real thing I can think of that is considered retro is the old games that people used to play in arcades. The included games listed below on the mood board are the main ones; however, you do also have console and/or portable devices such as the original PlayStation and Gameboy. Specifically, these include Mario, Flappy Bird, and Tetris. I've thought that you could be either an arcade employee, where maybe the story is that something goes wrong, and you have to beat each machine to be able to fix everything and escape. Another idea is that you are a retro machine mechanic who goes around and fixes vintage items. I could go into detail about taking them apart and finding the issues, or you have to play the games, find bugs, and eliminate them somehow. I'm not quite sure how either of them would work exactly, but they are some of the first ideas that come to mind.
I also wanted to get a bit of initial research on the common style for retro, with the colours and patterns, as well as how interior and exterior environments looked. For now, this is just some temporary research to try to help me build some more thoughts about the game I want to create, but it may also be useful later on when I'm wondering about how to design my game and what I need to model/what asset packs I need to gather. That's the other thing I need to consider before jumping into production: do I make everything myself or get pre-made models that I can just download from online and use? I think with the limited timeframe I have for this project, going for ready-to-use assets is my best bet, but I will try to make as much stuff as I can. Luckily, I can reuse some of my scripts from previous projects, such as the settings menu, for example, which gives me more time for other things. However,
Games and Style Initial Thoughts Mood Board
Idea 1: Arcade Employee
Idea 1: Arcade Employee
You play as a worker at a retro arcade where machines have been malfunctioning, and subsequently, income has been at an all-time low. Your boss has paid copious amounts of old-school, vintage game technicians to help fix all of the issues, but they still come back. Due to being on the edge of bankruptcy, your boss threatens your job in order to fix the machines, so you stay late one night trying. While tinkering with some wires, you accidentally shock yourself and end up inside the game of the machine you were working on. To escape, you must complete game after game until you get through all the games. Once you do, you awake on the floor, your manager looming over you. He hands you papers and walks away: employment termination. Reason? Tampering with the machines. General unprofessionalism. Odour. Did you ever really leave the game world?
Glitching Retro Game Machine Example
Inside Arcade Machine Example
Emloyment Termination Example
Idea 2: Retro Repair Technician
Idea 2: Retro Repair Technician
You play as a self-employed technician who specialises in retro arcade game machines. One day, you get a call to an old, abandoned arcade that needs games tested and fixed before an apparent "grand reopening". Instantly, a wave of uncertainty washes over you as you arrive on the scene. This briefly disappears, though, when you remember the lovely pay from this job. You stroll in, meet the new owner, and he gives you a rundown on the situation. Apparently, a worm -like virus has spread through all of the systems, and you need to get rid of it. You think it's a normal job, but the owner looks at you with overwhelming guilt and hope when he says, "I'll see you on the other side". You somehow fall asleep and awake, but you're now inside a game. However, you hear some interesting sound effects coming from above. You look up, and aside from the game world, you see a weird, fast-moving entity moving randomly downward towards you. It's the centipede. You find a gun and start blasting it. Once you do, you then have to complete the current level before being transported to the next and defeating another centipede. However, it is evolving and begins multiplying itself into separate entities. Once you finish everything, you wake back up in the real world and swiftly leave before the owner can ask anything else from you.
Abandoned Arcade Example
Centipede "Virus" Example
Example Games to be Used
Idea 3: Arcade Builder Simulator
Idea 3: Arcade Builder Simulator
This would be your regular kind of simulator builder, where you manage a certain business and get passive money over time to continue. I could make it mostly pre-built, or, the better option, let the player build everything. I think the highlight of this game would have to be how I would allow you to interact with all of the machines yourself, putting games within the game. I think this could have benefits of more money or something, giving an actual incentive to buy certain machines to earn more. However, I've no idea how that would work. This game doesn't have the story aspect pulling it along to a unique idea, but it is still an idea that I could make work relatively well. I think, from a developer's perspective, this is actually more difficult, but the other games would provide a greater outcome that may be more memorable than just another simulator game.
Various Arcade Props Example
Arcade Simulator/Tycoon Example
Arcade Machine Example
Idea 4: Retrowave/Synthwave Racer
Idea 4: Retrowave/Synthwave Racer
This is a simple traffic racer-like game where you race through various neon environments. The game could include the classic traffic driving, or the slightly more intense races where you'd compete against opposing AI that you need to beat in a race. From playing a variety of driving games in the past, there's a lot more content I could add, from time trials to online races with power-ups - the possibilities are endless, it just depends on how I would want the game to play. For example, it wouldn't look right if I added power-ups to a hyper-realistic racing game. That's not to say it isn't possible, but I'd have to think about the best way of doing it without completely ruining the aesthetic and immersion.
"Retrowave" Game Example
"Sunrise GP" Game Example
"Synthwave Driver" Game Example
Pecha Kucha
PowerPoint Slides
Pecha Kucha
PowerPoint Slides
Here is the PowerPoint I have made for my Pecha Kucha. I have gone through many ideas, mostly of which I went through on the mind map above. In this, I have explored all the initial ideas I have had since being given the theme for this project, as well as some initial game ideas that first come to mind. So far, I think I've had very limited ideas, and I'm looking to expand in the upcoming weeks. For me, looking at genres and ideas is probably going to be the best way of getting ideas, since I can choose one and think about how I would make a game surrounding it.
Video with Voice-over
Video with Voice-over
After creating the PowerPoint, I recorded voice-overs to complete the Pecha Kucha. Here, I just talked through each slide, outlining the ideas for each part. I then downloaded a video file of the full PowerPoint playing through, uploaded it to YouTube, and I have the completed piece of initial research for my FMP.
Week 2 - Forming Game Ideas & Research
09 / 03 / 2026
Week 2 - Forming Game Ideas & Research
09 / 03 / 2026
As the second week begins, it is time to begin getting some ideas together for games that I may want to take into production. At the start of week 3, I will have settled on one choice in particular, which I will go on to expand even more, but for now, I'm just going to be doing a lot of research and idea gathering for other games, laying out a selection of ideas that I can take on to production.
Since I am going to be basing my game ideas loosely off of other games and genres, I should note that I am using a website that explores a variety of genres and subgenres within, as well as including some game examples for each subgenre. That source can be found here:
Shahbazi, N. (2024). Complete List of Video Game Genres + Subgenres & Examples. [online] Pixune. Available at: https://pixune.com/blog/video-game-genres/.
Game 1 - Lethal Company Style Game: Action Adventure, Cooperative Multiplayer, Survival, Horror
Game 1 - Lethal Company Style Game: Action Adventure, Cooperative Multiplayer, Survival, Horror
To start off the week, I want to explore a new idea for a game that I haven't yet gone into. This would be a game that bleeds into the "friend-slop" era, where you and a bunch of friends play a variety of levels that require you to reach a certain quota, usually by selling items found around the various maps that you travel to. In lethal company, you travel to different moons that have a randomly generated interior building map, which is where you spend most of your time. Alongside searching for scrap, you are challenged to avoid or eliminate hostile enemies that spawn around the map. They vary greatly in danger levels, with some instantly attacking and some requiring time to pass or for you to initiate their attacking phase.
Similar Games Reference
Anthesis (2025). 29 Indie Games Like Lethal Company (For Fans of Co-op Chaos & Screaming). [online] Indiegamepreachers.com. Available at: https://indiegamepreachers.com/29-indie-games-like-lethal-company-for-fans-of-co-op-chaos-screaming/.
Lethal Company
About the Game
Lethal Company is the first main game that exploded the market for co-op horror survival games, now commonly referred to as "friend-slop" due to the ever-expanding list of similar games. Lethal has a fairly large amount of content to offer in the base game, but has been heavily expanded upon within the modding community. The premise is simple: land on abandoned moons, collect scrap, and sell it to the company. As you progress and become more knowledgeable within the game, you will start to collect more scrap as you skillfully deal with all of the enemies found within the interior building and around the surrounding environment without losing everything you worked so hard to get. You'll be able to buy many useful and decorative items from the company store, as well as travel to new moons that offer greater loot at the cost of higher risk. If nobody returns to the ship or does not collect enough scrap to meet the quota, the company will throw you out, and you will start over.
How I Could Use It
Aside from the game just being inspiring to create similar products, there are a few features in particular that I might like to replicate if I go down this path. For starters, having a terminal of some kind to be able to control everything seems pretty cool and would be neat to replicate in my own way. So far, I'm thinking that the ship's adaptation could be a plug socket or USB lead that you are "plugging into" other machines in some way. You might then only have a certain amount of power, so after a bit of time, the connection will be removed, so you need to be quick, which is similar to how you only have until 12 AM in Lethal. This way, I could make the power purchasable, so doing better in one round allows you to get more time in the next. This is a great way for playability, and maybe even saves if you don't make it back in time or die outside. So, power saves, allowing you to keep going, but you lose any items or whatever that you gathered.
The other feature I may want to recreate is the weather in Lethal. Weather is something that adds extra conditions to each moon, making them more hazardous. Two examples of this are: flooding over time and stormy weather that will strike conductive items with lightning. Instead of weather, per se, I could instead just make certain levels have more reactive enemies instead. I'm not exactly sure how something like this would work, and I'd probably never get around to it for FMP, but it's still a feature I should think a bit about, if nothing else, just for the evaluation at the end.
Reference:
lethal-company.fandom.com. (n.d.). Lethal Company Wiki. [online] Available at: https://lethal-company.fandom.com/wiki/Lethal_Company_Wiki.
Ship Interior
Ship Exterior
Experimentation Moon Flooding Weather
Content Warning
About the Game
Content Warning was one of the first predecessors to the incredibly successful Lethal Company, and it did not disappoint. As soon as the game hit the Steam market, it instantly exploded in popularity, partially due to Lethal having a large player count a few months ago, but also because when initially released, it was priced for free. It followed a very similar premise with its own spin: travel to a place (the Old World), film good scary content, return to the ship (called Diving Bell) with the camera, get home and upload your content to SpöökTube for profit through ads on your video. Not having to worry about rendering lots of scrap by using a camera is already great for performance, but also an awesome gameplay feature. Being able to watch back all the chaos later on video is a great feature for people who don't want to record their footage, and to get the best parts. Not only this, but the game adds an extra layer of customisation by allowing players to create their own face using ASCII characters, and I personally prefer the safe island that you live on compared to Lethal's ship in space.
How I Could Use It
I think the main thing I'm going to be taking from the game is actually some inspiration from the starting area. I think it would be cool to have a similar, happy starting place, and then you go into whatever thing the ship pod thingy would be to get plugged into a different world. Now thinking about it, I could instead have them act like programs on a computer or something, but I don't think the power idea that I had works too well, unless it's something like the power of the computer or something. Additionally, this would also probably move away from the arcade machine aesthetic, so I'll just have to come up with a game world you start in that acts like the safe world.
The other idea somewhat stems from the video recorder feature and how you can look back on your video. I think instead of this, I could make it automatically record, and then you can watch yourself play from a 3rd person perspective, either just from looking outside of a machine, or gameify it and make it look like you're meant to be in the game. As an example, I'll use Pacman. So, I could just add a camera that faces outside of the machine that you're trapped in, but that would get all of the 3D assets that I would be using, making it look a little weird, but it does give the game my own spin on the originals. On the other hand, I could make something that tracks your position and actions and creates a video of it. Maybe I can add a 2D sprite that moves along somewhere, following you along a different axis, so it makes it look like, in "real life", you're baked into the original game. The second option sounds cooler, but I don't have the time or knowledge to make something like that, so if I choose this game idea, then I may have to go with the first. Either way, at the end, maybe you could watch back your playthrough, or certain parts of it, just like how you can with SpöökTube in Content Warning.
Reference:
Fandom.com. (2024). Content Warning Wiki. [online] Available at: https://content-warning.fandom.com/wiki/Content_Warning_Wiki.
Map Bird's-Eye View
Selfie Camera View
SpöökTube Video View
R.E.P.O.
About the Game
Repo is the last game I'm going to be talking about, and could be considered to have had a greater popularity, not only due to having the highest all-time peak, but also because it's still pulling much higher numbers than both Lethal Company and Content Warning. Thus far in 2026, roughly 8,000 people are playing Lethal, a bit under 2,000 for Content Warning, compared to a fairly consistent 40,000+ for Repo. Although it's come out later, it has successfully kept its popularity, something Content Warning lost pretty quickly after the initial hype.
Moving on from the success, Repo is a perfect mix of both horror and comedy, since its physics system in particular increases the number of funny moments compared to the other games. In Repo, you have these kinds of checkpoints that are called extraction point quotas. Each time you travel to new locations, the quota increases, just like in the other games. If you encounter enemies and die, you lose. If you don't meet the quota, you cannot leave and therefore lose. This game can be so much more intense because of that, since you can't just leave for a safe place at any time, meaning you have to finish your job. However, the scary elements are heavily contrasted with the comedy aspects that the game pulls by having the player characters be a memorable robot that has hilarious animations for talking and moving around. Additionally, physics can be very fun to play around with, especially when you pick up your friends and launch them in the direction of a monster. Moreover, it can get annoying when you accidentally keep damaging objects, but that's where the challenge comes in, and it adds a sense of skill. Overall, Repo is a great predecessor to Lethal Company, and is often looked to be one of, if not the best, types of these games due to being so unique in its own way, which is obviously something I'd want to replicate.
How I Could Use It
Repo has a lot of distinct features, but one of the main ones, when you think of the game, has to be the physics. For me, there are certain aspects that I think I could bring into this game idea. The first has to be how you move around and interact with items. I think it's a genius mechanic that hasn't been explored enough. I'm still not quite sure what I would be collecting in my game, but having some kind of physics surrounding it would be awesome. The other thing that kind of fits into this section is the player model, also known as the semibots. The mouth talking animation is a revolutionary addition that has inspired many new developers to add their own way, and it makes some situations unnecessarily hilarious. Moreover, the movement feels quite realistic, which is a nice touch for an arcade game like this.
I think the only other feature I feel would fit best in the game idea I have is the extraction points. I think having more than one spanning the map is a great way to force players to search a lot deeper, and then needing to get back to the truck whilst avoiding any enemies in the way adds to a great bit of tension. Being able to revive friends this way is also great, and means you don't need to worry about losing them for a whole round, since when you get further into the game, one person dying early on makes everything so much harder for everyone else.
Reference:
Fandom.com. (2025). Repo Wiki. [online] Available at: https://repo-2025horror.fandom.com/wiki/Repo_Wiki.
Transporting Valuable
Player Semibot
Many Valuables on Extraction Point
Lethal Company Past Year Player Count
Content Warning Past Year Player Count
Lethal R.E.P.O. Past Year Player Count
Putting all of the research I've done on these games, as well as others, I think I have a fairly solid base game idea. Two other games I could use as inspiration include Phasmophobia and The Headliners. These are two games that I think fit into the same category of games quite well, and they're ones I've seen the most compared to some other games. The main factor that is pushing me away from this type of game is the multiplayer aspect. I know technically all of these games can be played solo, but they heavily rely on multiplayer to keep them fun and engaging, since without others, they lose the comedy and just horror remains. Implementing multiplayer is something every developer must want to do, but doing it is another issue that I just don't think I'm quite ready for. I'd imagine it would take my whole time just trying to get that to work, so I might as well leave multiplayer to either my own spare time or for when I go to university. The other issue with this game is that I'm making it seem like a fairly large game, but I'm actually going to be very limited with the content I can include in the time. I feel like if I began work on it right now, I could get a fairly complete, single-player version of the game made, but considering I have to do a lot more research, the full production time is probably going to be 1-2 months, and I expect the least, which isn't much for just me.
Game 2 - Arcade Employee In Machines: Story, Action, Simulation, Casual, Survival
Game 2 - Arcade Employee In Machines: Story, Action, Simulation, Casual, Survival
For my next game idea, I thought I'd revisit my initial thoughts. This game would revolve around a story where you are an employee at a local arcade and one day get electrocuted while trying to fix a machine. I've gone through my main thought process on the story earlier, but basically, after being shocked, you begin playing old retro arcade games in first person. You have to beat each game shown to you, and after, you are woken up, realising it was all a dream. Or nightmare, depending on how it goes. So far, I don't really have any games or other media I know of to use as examples and research for this game idea, so I'll have to do some now. Ideally, I need some for both the story and gameplay aspects. I feel like the movie Pixels, which I've already talked about countless times, is a great starting place for how I want it to look, but that's just a movie that turned 2D characters into 3D ones.
Pixels
About the Movie
This strange, retro game-inspired movie appears to me to be more of a nostalgic path for previous gamers during the era of these games, but the theme and style seem to be more appealing to the younger audience. You start by watching an arcade game world championship, where the final two contestants battle it out. Eventually, it ends, and a video highlight from the championship gets launched into space inside a time capsule. Later on, aliens find it and take it as a declaration of war, so they invade Earth. Now grown up, everyone from the arcade championship and more are brought together to be the protectors of Earth, having to beat all of the games once and for all. It is later found out that the winner cheated, so he begins to feel guilty and useless at a really important time. In the end, through the power of friendship or whatever, they come back together to have one final game of Donkey Kong or something to finally beat the aliens. They fix any damage to Earth and leave peacefully; everyone lives happily ever after.
How I Could Use It
Although I really enjoyed the movie as a young kid, I do agree the storyline is a bit goofy looking back at it now, but I still think it's one of the best "game" movies so far. For me, there isn't a whole lot of content that I'd like to take as inspiration, aside from how the enemies might look. The fact that they are all made out of squares for pixels looks awesome and would require minimal texturing. However, on the other hand, I have no idea how I'd go about making a cubic model. In a program like Blender, there are plugins that people have made, and there are far more online tutorials for it. Now, I assume 3DS Max has some quick way to transform a model into a cubic form quickly and without taking ages by placing every block, but if there is, it will take a lot more research to find out how. I have found ways to make Unity display a pixelated view, which could work, but I feel like that would make it feel more PlayStation-style than arcade, though maybe it's a good idea to mix them. Either way, I think the way the game characters are displayed in the movie looks awesome, and I'd love to try to replicate that.
References:
IMDb. (2026). Pixels (2015) - Plot - IMDb. [online] Available at: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2120120/plotsummary/ [Accessed 11 Mar. 2026].
Mali Makes Games (2025). Unity 3D PIXELATED Rendering in 2025 | Updated Tutorial (3D Pixel Art). [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4b812pMxDc [Accessed 11 Mar. 2026].
Pacman Infront of Ghost Cars
Q*Bert Speaking
Other Retro Characters
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
About the Game
Unfortunately, I haven't played this game, so I don't know much about it, and information about the game's story appears to be quite limited. From what I can gather, you are attempting to play a game, but there is a program trying to prevent you from doing so. Everything seems relatively harmless, since it's trying to get you to stop doing stuff and leave, but later on, an evil programming bug appears and gets both you and the one trying to prevent you from playing the game. You get lost in multiple dimensions, left needing to help some random characters, before ending up defeating the glitch, and I guess just moving on with your day.
How I Could Use It
This game is mostly a good inspiration for how the game works. Reviews state how compelling the story is and how the developer has put in some great puzzles. I think for my idea of this game, the main aspect of how you get transferred from game to game is a great idea. I think the story is something I'd really have to think about since that would be the main aspect of the game, but then change the theme of the game slightly to instead be inspired by retro arcade games. I could even make it somewhat seem like you are in some sort of a coma from being electrocuted, and you are in desperate need to quickly complete each level as you progress, since you keep losing pieces of your memory or something. The story and reasoning would be something I would dive more into if this is the game path I eventually choose to go down, but I think the idea I currently have is pretty solid.
References:
Steampowered.com. (2020). There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension on Steam. [online] Available at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240210/There_Is_No_Game_Wrong_Dimension/#app_reviews_hash [Accessed 11 Mar. 2026].
to, C. (2026). There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension. [online] There Is No Game Wiki. Available at: https://thereisnogame.fandom.com/wiki/There_Is_No_Game:_Wrong_Dimension [Accessed 11 Mar. 2026].
Title Screen
Sherlock Holmes Dimension
Another Dimension
Arcade Paradise
About the Game
Finally, we have Arcade Paradise, which I thought was a great game to take inspiration from for how arcades are laid out and how the game is styled. In this game, you are playing as someone who has taken over a rundown laundromat business in hopes of making it big by expanding into an arcade. Not only is this an awesome simulator where you juggle between work at the two different businesses, but you also have the option to play on the arcade machines you buy, and with over 35 additional games to choose from, you have a lot of gameplay to be had. Not only is the number of games great, but the better part is that you can even play some with friends, either cooperatively or competitively.
How I Could Use It
For this game, I thought it was best initially just for the design, since I'd probably want to follow down a more realistic path to the kind of graphics most games get nowadays. However, the more I think about it, the more I think trying to replicate the PS1's graphical state is better and would fit into the retro theme even better. So, my compromise is to model everything basically how they look in Arcade Paradise, but add a pixelated effect to the camera to make it look like you're playing something more retro. I'd then hope for it to look something like the PlayStation 1's Driver, but with bright neon lights and vivid colours. Inside the games that you play, I'd then want to try and keep the game's original style, but use the more 3D stuff like in the Pixels movie.
References:
Steampowered.com. (2026). Arcade Paradise on Steam. [online] Available at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388870/Arcade_Paradise/ [Accessed 11 Mar. 2026].
Tall Room View
Low Room View & Pool Table
Playable Arcade Machine Example
Overall, I think this idea is another solid one. There are obviously some more references I could've made, but I think these three that I picked out are the best for me at the moment. It personally isn't my main choice at the moment, since I think my lethal company style game sounds better for replayability, and I can quite easily follow a structure that so many other games alike follow. Moreover, I'd have to spend more time on the story compared to the Lethal inspired game, since that is one of the main aspects. Obviously, I don't have to completely prioritise that, and I mostly have a story already sorted out, but cutscenes are another thing that's used all the time in story games, which is something I haven't done before. Again, I could just focus on the gameplay, but I think if I'm going to do that, I may as well do my first game idea, since that will have more content overall.
Game 3 - Retrowave Street Racer: Simulation Sport, Racing, Driving
Game 3 - Retrowave Street Racer: Simulation Sport, Racing, Driving
For my final game idea, I thought I would go back to the driving game that I was researching last week. I thought this could be a really cool game that could be relaxing or competitive, depending on how you want to play. For example, you could just do an infinite drive where you are driving down endless streets, passing cars and (somehow) getting money. Or you could turn things up a notch and do some street racing, primarily against AI, but maybe multiplayer could be a stretch goal. Additionally, you'd have car customisation, and probably some different tracks or places to drive. I don't fully know what style I'd want to make it in, but I was thinking either old Mario Kart style, like Super Mario Kart, or a more modern game style, but with the retrowave aesthetic heavily impacted. If I went down the Mario Kart route, I would still try to make the style reminiscent of the retrowave, but not quite as much, and try to replicate the simplistic art style found in the early Mario Kart games.
Super Mario Kart
About the Game
Super Mario Kart is the first Mario Kart racing game in the series. You can play as one of eight characters from the Super Mario series and a wide variety of tracks to drive on, testing your skills and luck, in many ways against the AI. Not only is there the regular races against AI, but you can also play multiplayer to race against other players. Alongside the well-known racing, there is also a battle mode. In this Mario Kart game, in particular, it is just a simple game mode where you have a certain number of lives represented by balloons. You can throw shells and bananas to trip up your opponents and make them lose balloons, until you are the only one left with any. Overall, this is a great kart game to start the Mario Kart series, and the graphics are perfect for a retro-style inspired game, especially for the simplicity of level design.
How I Could Use It
So, as I've already talked about it a bit, my main inspiration for a game like this would be the old pixelated graphical display. Not only does this game have a very small amount of decor surrounding the track, meaning I wouldn't need to design much of the scenery, but the graphics are incredibly simple, with most objects just having a few colours for some basic shading. I think this would be fairly easy to replicate in Unity, and I'd probably still go down the route of adding an overlay for the camera to make everything pixelated, but it would make the process a lot easier.
Aside from the graphical considerations, I also like the idea of different game modes, power-ups, and additional boosts, which I will now go into. For the game modes, like the battle, obviously, I'd have to make up my own mode or come up with a way to change theirs into my own, but it's still a cool idea to add more content to the game aside from just the regular driving and racing. Secondly, power-ups are a cool idea to add, especially for the racing. It adds a lot more suspense and tension, but also takes away from the skill aspect in a way since you could get really lucky with powerups to help you win. Either way, it's definitely something to consider adding since I think it would be awesome. Finally, what I mean by additional boosts is stuff like how you can get a speed boost by drifting and hitting a certain button when jumping over a bump. It's these things that make you think about how you can be quicker, and also why you shouldn't do it all the time, since they could throw you off the track if you gain too much speed.
References:
Kart, M. (2017). Super Mario Kart. [online] Mario Kart Racing Wiki. Available at: https://mariokart.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Mario_Kart.
Box Art Cover
Cup Award Ceremony
Mario Circuit 1
Sunrise GP
About the Game
This indie game is perfect to base my project on, as it has a lot of content that I could try to replicate, as well as the art style I'm most likely to go with. Sunrise GP is a relaxing, classic racer with racing, online time trial leaderboards, car tuning, and a vast range of vehicle customisation. Races get incredibly competitive against the AI as you learn the tracks, and later leave them in your dust. The cartoon-style complements the beautiful lighting greatly and matches the retro feel the game was trying to replicate. Aside from a bit more content to be had in the game, you also have a built-in photo mode where you can get an image from some picturesque spots in the game.
How I Could Use It
As I've already stated, this style is what I'm most likely to do. The low-poly vehicles and decor with simple textures are exactly the kind of style I need with the limited time, and as long as I spend a bit of time on the lighting, it can look really good. Diving a bit more into what's more unique, we have the vehicle customisation, which is really cool. It reminds me of GTA's customisation, where you select and buy a variety of different parts to fit your car to your preferences. I love how much variety there is in this game, and the various cars give you a lot of customising opportunities.
The other thing I really like about this game is how it plays. When driving around, I found the controls a lot easier to pick up compared to other racing games, but there is still an aspect of skill involved if you want to go for some of the fastest times. Not only this, but as advertised, there is a fair amount of vehicle tuning you can do to your vehicles to make them fit your driving style a bit more and help you reach those top times on the leaderboard. Overall, this game has a great base that I would happily use as inspiration, just changing the vehicles and graphics to something that represents the PlayStation 1 a bit more to make it even more retro-themed.
References:
Steampowered.com. (2026). Sunrise GP on Steam. [online] Available at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2670800/Sunrise_GP/ [Accessed 12 Mar. 2026].
Vehicle Customisation
Racing with HUD
Aesthetic Landscape View
Burnout Paradise Remastered
About the Game
I think Burnout Paradise is a perfect game to get some inspiration from for some additional features I could include in my game. To start, this game allows you to drive around a beautiful city called Paradise City. Alongside being able to play a lot of races around the map, you can also set certain records all around the map, such as speed. However, the game mostly revolves around launching, spinning, and smashing into other cars to benefit yourself. You can do it against friends and randoms online, or just do everything against the AI players, which are actually pretty competitive while you are learning the game. Discover many jumps, stunts, and shortcuts placed around the map, while unlocking new vehicles and customisation along the way.
How I Could Use It
Although this game looks awesome, and having a living, thriving city is one of its main components, that is something I just can't get done in the time. However, some things I would like to bring across into my own project would have to be the missions and additional content that you can find around the map. It increases the amount of gameplay to be had, but also allows players to chill out and do something a bit easier from time to time. Something like adding top speed challenges would be a cool thing to add, maybe as well as some police chase modes. Obviously, all of this would mean I'd need some kind of large, open-world city to drive around in, but this might not be too bad to make if I were just doing everything really simply.
Additionally, I think making vehicle customisation, cleaning, and more specific places around the map, like fuel stations, is a great way to make everything feel more immersive. For example, certain stations you drive through will refill your boost level, and others will paint your car a random colour. It's a great way to not only get players driving around the map for certain reasons, but also helps them remember the map through points of interest everywhere.
References:
Steampowered.com. (2026). Save 75% on BurnoutTM Paradise Remastered on Steam. [online] Available at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1238080/Burnout_Paradise_Remastered/ [Accessed 16 Mar. 2026].
Section of City
Car Wrecked
Other Interesting Unlockable Vehicles
As the final game idea, I wanted to step away from my original thoughts, but this idea could be transformed into an awesome, retro-style driving and racing game. Unfortunately, it's the idea I'm least likely to do, because the driving alone would take way too long to implement, and I already know I take forever to model vehicles, which is obvious from my Car Livery Project. Yes, I could use that car, but needing multiple more in the same style would just take too long, and isn't worth all that in my opinion. The other aspect that pushes me away is the fact that the AI is going to be a lot harder to implement compared to the AI in the other games. Either way, I have no idea where I'm going to start, but the first two ideas seem a lot easier to me, someone who hasn't really ever made AI for games, so jumping straight into vehicle driving AI seems a lot more daunting and time-consuming. A driving game is something I definitely want to try to make in the future, but for now, until I've actually been taught more of the basics for stuff like AI, it just isn't the route I want to go down.
Week 3 - Choosing & Pitching my Idea
16 / 03 / 2026
Week 3 - Choosing & Pitching my Idea
16 / 03 / 2026
As the third week comes into play, I need to think about what game I'm going to be creating. Last week, I came up with three great ideas that I'm considering taking into production; however, I can only do one. They each have their positives and negatives:
Co-op Survival Adventure: Lots of games to base it on, but multiplayer and mechanics are difficult
Employee in Machines Story: Probably the least content I'll have to develop, but story and cutscenes take ages to make
Retrowave Street Driver/Racer: Satisfying and simple art style, but driving AI and good lighting are strenuous tasks
After careful consideration, I know I'm definitely not doing the driving game. Unfortunately, it just seems like too much work for the amount of knowledge I have at this time. However, the art style I was planning to go with might be what I try to replicate in my actual project in some kind of way. AI is something I'm going to have to do either way, but adding it for driving just seems like too big an ask in my opinion.
The other game I'm not going to be making is probably going to be the story game I had laid out. I think the idea is solid, and I feel I could make a fairly engaging storyline. However, considering these types of games have a lot of cutscenes, which commonly include a lot of animation, something I haven't done much of, it just seems like it isn't for me. Yes, I could've done "cutscenes" that didn't actually do a whole lot and mostly just had a bit of dialogue, explaining the story, but I feel like that's a bit cheaty and wouldn't play the best. Additionally, I was going to basically make whole games that you'd have to play, which, although it seems like a streamlined process, I was basically just going to be recreating retro arcade machine games, which might take a while and take away from my own ideas a bit.
Finally, I'm left with the first idea I researched last week, which was the Lethal Company inspired game. In my opinion, it's the game I should be able to get a decent amount completed in the time provided, as well as having plenty of content for me to add. Not only do I already have lots of ideas about how I could make a game surrounding this, but I also have plenty of similar examples that I can base mine on. I've also played quite a few of these games, which, in turn, helps a lot. There are obviously challenges, the main one being all the mechanics I'm going to have to make, like the walking, interaction, inventory, and more. However, I can use quite a lot of the assets and things I made in previous projects to help me. Moreover, co-op multiplayer is something I'd really like to include, but I have no idea if it's going to be possible for me to make something like this, especially in the time. Lastly, I'm going to have to make some AI that moves around, so that will be interesting, since it's something I've never done before, but I feel ready for the challenge.
Quick Ideas Brain Storm
Quick Ideas Brain Storm
Name: Last Credit: Insert To Begin
Buy arcade cabinets, consoles & games for maps
Power for each map has a fuel gauge that must be filled up
Items found could be actual consoles, whereas the consoles and arcade machines that are used for maps could be unique in some way. Maybe the normal electricity that made the old ones work is lost
Older, more well-made stuff = more valuable, going to require quite a bit of research
Could have some kind of score system for defeating enemies, whatever kind of stuff you'd get score for in the real games, e.g. in Pac-Man: Absorbing the points around the map, energisers for eating the ghosts. Maybe there's one character in every level that takes more to defeat or cannot be defeated. How would Pac-Man work?
Also, how would the game worlds look? Pacman is like a horizontal maze map?
Some kind of bin or chute that you put gathered items into while inside the game map. Either put at the "ship" or placed at random places around the map, forcing you to explore
Plug connection power is displayed as a fuse-like model and UI somewhere. Either just on screen when in the ship, or as a HUD
whatever you used (arcade machines in particular) displays items recovered, enemies defeated, money earned, etc when you get back. Maybe also top score
Selection of cabinets with various support. Arcade cabinets, retro consoles etc all set up. You buy the games (maps) for each console, maybe as the digital ROMs, since the cartridges and stuff don't work on these specially made devices. Certain consoles are easier/harder and take many more credits to run, as well as game maps. You select the game (map) on a screen
Shop is a digital touchscreen that drops purchases in a Donkey Kong barrel
some items can be used to damage enemies you encounter, but this decreases their value, e.g. controller: throwable projectile
headsets that you purchase credit (time) for. Like virtual reality headsets. In a greenscreen room. Lose gradually over-time. Enemy hits decrease connection stability, removing time
machine with input chute for items in the game view, gets converted into real-world currency. The Finals themed cashout station
to exit, all players must meet back at the seating area in the virtual world and click a button on the machine that items were put in
shop gives useless stuff in real world, but they work in the game worlds. Must be dropped on the floor of green screen room, or inside player's inventories
Players are like testers for the company, CreditCore. They are referred to as Simulation Operators, or just Operators.
CreditCore - Fictional Game Company
Here, I have made a basic logo design for the fictional company that the game will be based around. Their name is CreditCore, and I thought it would be a good idea to have the logo be a credit being inserted into a coin hole, which is technically the core part. Not only does this look pretty cool and minimal, but there's also space for animations, easy change of colour and other things when I come to make the main game.
After completing my presentation, which included showing off this logo, I was given some constructive feedback to add some colour to it, since it was very dark and boring at the moment. At the time, I agreed, and I know that this is technically just a baseplate, because I was thinking I might change it later when I have their headquarters place built. However, I think this kind of relates to the story of the game, how it looks quite innocent, just like how certain arcade machines look, but in reality, it's a dark business to go down. For example, claw machines are commonly known as a scammy machine that just keeps taking your money away without much reward. My game idea is very similar. The player must pay to use the new technology, but in reality, it keeps you hooked in until you can spend no more.
First Year FMP Project Proposal Forms for Reference
Project Proposal Pro Forma FMP Choice Evaluation
Project Proposal Pro Forma FMP Action Plan
Pitch Presentation
Pitch Presentation
Finally, after an intense week of preparing and conducting additional research, we delivered our pitch presentations. I think mine went quite well, and I got a substantial amount of feedback to bring into the pre-production stage.
For starters, my logo was given some feedback, of which I've already talked about, but I'll say again if you skipped over it. At the moment, it's quite basic and plain, being in greyscale. This was mostly intended, since it is just a base design that I was thinking I could change later when I have the starting environment, if I wanted to. However, now that it's been properly brought to my attention, it may be good to leave, since it could reflect how dark and mysterious these "fun" businesses are, whereas they're actually just there for your money. An example is claw machines. If I'm going to change anything, it'll probably just be changing the token to represent a golden credit token instead, since that would look more appealing if I made it gold. However, this might not be the easiest, since a flat gold colour usually doesn't look great without shininess, which is kind of hard to replicate on a 2D, minimalist logo.
Another thing that was said was along the lines of how does this grab the player and make them want to keep playing? Straight away, I thought this could technically be said about most games, especially ones within this genre. However, it is a good point to get to, since if a game is boring and has no progression reward or a lack of replayability/content, then it will quickly die, either through people losing interest or through poor reviews repelling users. I think the solution to this is just creating some fairly captivating lore, as well as some good initial content with easy scalability for official updates and mods. This is how games like Lethal Company have so much success.
Talking of the story, that ties into one of the other main pieces of feedback I gained from my presentation. Obviously, this also partially links to the previous point, but this is about the items you find and how you get money. I think it's something I have to do a fair bit of thinking about before jumping in and making stuff, since, yes, why are you collecting retro equipment inside of the levels and then how and why are you selling them to get the game's real-world money? I think the idea I had for it is good, and it gives me many ideas for how this can be implemented. For example, the PlayStation 3 has many official controllers released for certain reasons. Due to being limited edition, some were a lot rarer and therefore had a larger reselling price tag, which is something I would love to try to put into my game. I could even add some replica controllers that maybe look slightly different to the real thing, but they either sell for a lot less, or maybe even have negative effects. That's another idea for items, then, being official products and in good condition is one thing for profit, but maybe it also has negative effects on the neural connection if they aren't good products. This also gives you a selection of items to use as weaponry equipment, since if they aren't worth selling, you might as well use them offensively against any entities you find in the world. Additionally, collecting every piece of retro equipment could be good for achievements in a fully released game. For example, if you collect all items inside the original PlayStation maps, then you get an achievement for that. Making the spawning items specific to their console or whatever they are is a great way to get players to explore everywhere, and some easy achievements to make. Additionally, I could make some items limited to certain maps, meaning the 100% run of the game could be quite tedious, but at least it gives players reasons to play.
Week 4 - Starting Main Pre-Production Research
23 / 03 / 2026
Week 4 - Starting Main Pre-Production Research
23 / 03 / 2026
Making the Credit Token
Making the Credit Token
To start the fourth week, I wanted to create a design for the physical tokens you will use to buy time in-game. I thought this was something pretty simple to start on, especially since I already had an idea for what they'd look like through the CreditCore company logo I made the previous week.
To begin, I thought I should probably get a few reference images to base my token on. I thought that, although these have a lot more on them, they seemed like the best references for what I was imagining I was going to make. They also have nice textures on them, so I can refer back to them again when I go into Substance Painter to texture.
Bitcoin Reference
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Game Coin Reference
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Once I had my reference images, I jumped into 3DS Max and began the modelling process. For size reference, I searched online for the pound coin dimensions and just rounded them up a bit, so it's a bit larger, probably more similar to the 50p coin, just with rounder sides. I also thought it would be cool to keep the same number of sides as the logo, which was partly done for the flat edges on the sides, because 20 segments is a perfect, low-poly circle. Unfortunately, I did forget to rotate the square C in the centre of the coin to be exactly the same as the logo, but it's something I can very easily change for the logo in Photoshop later.
Now, the majority of this model was incredibly simple, just making some cap segments when creating the coin cylinder base, extruding some faces to make them inset, and rounding the edges a bit with the chamfer tool. However, the main challenge came when trying to implement the cubic C in the centre. The easiest way would've probably just been making the C, and then attaching it to the coin base. However, I don't like simple, so obviously I made it more difficult, and probably less optimised, than it needed to be. The C creation stemmed from making a plane and making it into a single, hollowed and outlined square. I then copied it around to make the shape, before making the coin a Pro Boolean element and picking out the shapes. For some reason, this time around just removed the whole model, so I had to select outline or something, which just added the segments in on the face. I then selected all of the required faces and extruded them upward slightly. As you can see, the edges are still projected on top, which adds quite a few more polys, but I can't be asked to fix it, so it works well enough. To finish, I mirrored it to the bottom, used the quick unwrap tool (because it's so small and has little detail) and exported the model.
Credit Token Model in 3DS Max
Inside Substance Painter, I brought in the model, baked the mesh, and found this basic metal material with a bunch of colour presets for various materials. I decided I'd want three different types of credit token for various time, so I chose a bronze, silver and gold texture and exported the images. I think overall, they look pretty good for just a lesson and a bit's work. I probably won't use them loads, but it's still useful to have, even if I decide to just use them as decoration.
Credit Token Bronze Texture in Substance Painter
Credit Token Silver Texture in Substance Painter
Credit Token Gold Texture in Substance Painter
Completing the Story
Completing the Story
Your name (by default) is Chris Fedit, and you have been invited to the technological company CreditCore to test their new equipment. Being a software engineer yourself and someone who is always posting about the good old days on retro consoles and arcades, you've finally been noticed by someone who wants to give you the experience of a lifetime.
Upon arrival, you are greeted by some friendly members of staff who take you to the main office to begin your trip. Once there, you meet the man at the centre of it all, Nathan Korr. In contrast to the staff, his welcome is fairly aloof, but you barely notice as you scan the technology eagerly. Korr notices your enthusiasm and comments on how they were looking for someone like you. He explains that they've required some new testers for their latest breakthrough, simulation operators to be specific. As informed, it is not a free test, but you have come prepared.
After a quick look around the area, you are brought to a room where a lady goes over your tasks and risks, and it's where you realise this is nothing like you could've imagined. You blank out for the majority of the talk, but thankfully, she hands you an information pamphlet, which you can read while you get ready: Brand new technology. Virtual reality-based experience. Neural connections.
You freeze up. Neural connections!? You keep reading; the headset you wear transmits specific brainwave patterns directly to your brain, making you see and feel things that aren't actually there. With the blackout goggles, everything disappears, and you "see" almost as a virtual reality headset does, but your brain is the system. Waves transmitted to the brain are controlled by the Core, which is what the headset is connected to. The Core gets connected to other systems that store certain console data, which is what tells the Core what waves to transmit.
Now the experience of costing a large sum of money is beginning to make sense. Since this technological advancement requires a lot of power to run, it becomes incredibly expensive over time, meaning it would put the company into bankruptcy if the events were free. However, it's not like you just run out of money, for there are valuable virtual artefacts found within, themed around the system the Core is connected to. You then get to choose what you do with the money: spend it on more time in the simulation, or purchase equipment through the company's Loadout Terminal.
Finally, you get to some of the worst parts. For starters, if all operators aren't back at the Connection Point when the timer hits zero or before, your mind gets trapped in limbo, and your body becomes paralysed (this is where the whole game would reset, like how you restart in Lethal Company). You realise why this isn't stated on the front cover, and clearly you should've read the full invitation. Lastly, you are advised to avoid encounters with entities within the simulation; otherwise, the connection may be damaged, costing you invaluable time. You stare, in a mix of excitement and terror, an absolute blank stare.
Can you become rich whilst having a bewildering experience, or will you lose your sanity and soul to this devious company?
Brain Waves & Their Effect
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Items & Income
Items & Income
In Last Credit, there are going to be a variety of items to be found within each map that you travel to. Initially, I was just thinking of making it completely random among all the items in the game. However, since my presentation, I have been made to think a little deeper about why the items are there and why you're collecting what you're collecting. My initial idea was to just make items spawn in that are relevant to the system you're playing on. For example, if you select the original PlayStation, you will only find things relevant to that. Examples could include controllers, the actual console, and game discs in their cases. Not only does this make a little more sense than Xbox controllers being found in a Tetris world in a Game Boy system, but it also gives players a reason for exploring every world and system, especially since, in a full release, I could add achievements, some being for picking up all items for a specific system. Furthermore, after some more thinking about implementation, I could include limited-edition versions of items, such as controllers with cool colours and patterns, and various types of a specific console, for example. This could mean that rarer items would be worth more, giving you an incentive to keep exploring. Finally, I could also include certain replica items that are slightly different to the regular, official equipment. For example, a controller might have a slightly different shape or colour, and therefore it wouldn't sell for as much as the "official" one, and they could even damage the connection, losing time, because that's just how it works.
However, I do have to think about how this works. What I mean by this is how do these items just spawn in, and why can you bring them to a garbage chute-looking thing to sell them for money? I believe the most logical answer is that the items are there because they are the physical manifestations of data fragments that are excess or unstable data from reconstructing the archived systems. That is one of the reasons the experience takes so much power to run and why it's expensive, because there is so much "bloat data" not needed for the experience to run. You are basically cleaning up the system by removing the bloat data. When it's dropped in the Data Extraction Unit, it's converted into virtual credits, which CreditCore converts into real-world currency for you, not to be confused with credit tokens you purchase in "real life" for more time. Using this idea, replica items can now instead be referred to as corrupted data fragments, stuff that may have been incorrectly created upon the reconstruction of the systems. This then also relates to why entities within the systems are aggressive, since they are having defensive responses to foreign entities such as yourself. The company contacts these game enthusiasts, such as the main game protagonist, Chris Fedit, since they will have the highest success rate in trying to recover and fix the system data from within.
The Core, Systems & Headsets
The Core, Systems & Headsets
The Core is the main piece of technology that connects both the simulation operators' headsets and Retro Data Systems. The Core processes data sent from an RDS, translates it into usable neural-virtual data, and transmits it to any simulation headsets connected. It sort of acts like the middleman between a computer and a monitor. The computer has useful data, but it needs to display it on a screen that everyone can understand. This is just a lot more complex and also creates the simulation.
Retro Data Systems
A retro data system, or RDS for short, is the hardware where the archived firmware and software are reconstructed. It stores whatever data was inside the retro consoles, handhelds and other machines, as well as a list of popular titles produced for the original devices. For example, there is an RDS for the PlayStation 1, which includes all of the firmware that was included in that. Additionally, there is a variety of software data, which includes games from the console, such as Resident Evil, Driver, and Final Fantasy 7. The RDS has had all of this archived data put directly onto the system, which can then be displayed and configured through its terminal screen. The terminal screen is a touchscreen display that is built into a large, arcade cabinet-like structure, themed around the system it has had installed. Accessing it is necessary to select which game (themed map) you'd like to play, as well as checking what state each of the games are in. This would work like how Lethal Company has weather for maps. From time to time, the games will have various issues. Two ideas that I could include would be sped-up time and a glitching screen, making your life a little harder with everything you do. I know I should add some kind of positive effects to give you an incentive to play the games with issues, but I'd probably just keep it to negatives, since it will force you to purchase new games, so you are less likely to play a game with problems. Additionally, with games, I think I'll keep the items the same across all within one RDS. However, the rarity of specific items may get increased/decreased depending on the game selected. For example, you would be more likely to get the game disc for the game you're playing, compared to others. On other devices that include additional equipment, they could become more common in games that support them. The only example I can think of at the moment is the Nintendo Wii, even though it isn't quite yet retro. They have the regular remote and nunchuck, but remote holders, such as a table tennis bat, for a game like Wii Sports, could be more common in the Wii Sports world. This is just a vague example, but a fairly good idea, I think. Also, before I move on to the Core, something like an arcade machine obviously doesn't have lots of accessories, so I might instead try to focus on items from said games that you play.
The Core
Next up, the Core is the main piece of equipment that brings the whole project together. As already explained, it basically creates a link between an RDS and one or more simulation headsets. The functionality is something I'll get to in a bit, but I first want to talk about the connections. The Core connects to an RDS via a hypersonic type-2 (HS2) cable, which the player will be able to plug into whatever system they'd like to run. The headsets are plugged into their own slot of the Core using a hypersonic type-3 (HS3) cable. The Core and RDS must also have their own electrical input through plugging in a hypersonic type-1 (HS1) cable. The systems completely power themselves, whereas the Core must power the headsets, as well as itself. For the electricity, all that is needed for a large amount of renewable power is a massive wind tunnel-like room, with electricity being syphoned through an electrically charged metal coil. Specific power cubes can then be connected to provide an outlet. CreditCore has manufactured its own cables for maximum efficiency, safety, and convenience, allowing the whole ecosystem of their products to effortlessly connect together without much of a problem. Functionally, the Core is very simple; however, it requires substantial resources to operate as intended. The cost of time is actually due to the degradation of the equipment during use. This is also why there is a time limit of (TBD) minutes, since otherwise everything would fail, and you'd be stuck either way. Credit cost is equivalent to the cost of the components that need replacing after every trip, so basically just becomes stability time. The Core mostly consists of a server rack design; however, it includes an interactive screen for technicians to monitor hardware wear, as well as other things. Additionally, it houses the large brain component, which is where any data from an RDS gets translated and sent to all of the headset slots with one connected. I'm still considering my options for how I want the Core to look. I know I want the server rack sort of design; however, I don't know if I want to make the screen built-in, or if I make it a separate, free-standing keypad and screen/laptop design. Now that I'm thinking about it, I could keep it built-in, and do this kind of free-standing design for the shop that I will get around to later on.
Simulation Headsets
Finally, I have to dive a little deeper into how the headsets work and look. For starters, as has already been explained, they are connected to the Core via a wire, which powers and transfers all necessary data directly to the headset(s). They look and act similarly to how the more commonly known VR headsets do; however, they are obviously more advanced, because instead of displaying a screen really close to your eyes, specific waves are sent to the brain, making you sense lots of things that aren't actually there. Not only is this revolutionary for the lack of graphical loss, due to the limit just being your brain's capacity, but it also doesn't strain the eyes over a long period of time since there isn't any kind of screen included. For reference, it would look a bit like a more advanced Bigscreen VR headset, with more pads that rest on your head, which are used to send waves to different parts very accurately. It's a fairly weighty product; however, you can't really notice when you are immersed in the experience.
Retro Console Storage Cabinet Shelf Example
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Server Rack Example
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Keypad Example
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PS1 and PSOne
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Bigscreen Beyond 2 VR Headset
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Brain-Reading Headset for Design Reference
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Core Lifespan Timer Display
Core Lifespan Timer Display
Whilst you're in the simulation, you are technically paying for your time since the Core's components degrade substantially over time, meaning parts need to constantly get replaced. Although there is a maximum amount of safe time you can purchase, after your allocated time runs out, the Core can implode at any moment, meaning time management is vital to ensure the player's safety and ability to continue onto more experiences. When the player(s) enter the simulation, their brains will also display an overlay-like timer that is linked to the Core's estimated component lifespan. This will start at whatever percentage it has been filled up to with credits, and will decrease from there. When outside of the simulation, you will be able to check the status of the Core by looking at the screen on the rack, which will show the percentage. To increase the status bar, purchasing tokens and inserting them into a slot on the Core will increase the lifespan since it uses them for any repairs.
Timer Countdown Reference 1
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Timer Countdown Reference 2
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Timer Countdown Reference 3
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Week 5 - Finishing the Majority of Research
30 / 03 / 2026
Week 5 - Finishing the Majority of Research
30 / 03 / 2026
As weeks of research are coming to an end and production will begin very soon, I still need to do a bit more before I'm completely ready. Although I feel I probably could start production now, it's obviously best to think about how I'm going to be making as many things as possible. I think I've gone into detail with the main core aspects of the game, but I still have a fair few parts that I haven't fully explored yet, such as the shop, items and the chute, PvE mechanics, and more that I will get done this week. I have also been advised to at least look at a GDD for some ideas I may not have. I don't think I want to go and create a GDD, since I've added a lot of information I would've included there on my blog instead, so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. I did find a few sources that provided the GDDs to successful games such as GTA, Silent Hill, etc. which still might be useful for ideas.
Office & Simulation Room Design
Office & Simulation Room Design
At the start of the game, you will be playing inside the safe area, known as the facility. Here, I won't be going into too much detail when I design it, because it's a fairly useless area, but I need it to look like a high-tech place that a company like CreditCore, making what they make, might look like in the real world. I feel the main place you can explore will just be the main office where their employees are working at computers. They will be pretty plain, probably just a monochrome coloured room and furniture with some expensive computer equipment to fill the area. I know, ideally, especially thinking back to the logo, I should add some colour, but I don't really know how. These office facility places, like I'm thinking of, don't have a whole lot of life in them, but maybe I could try and change that. For starters, it's basically a game development company, and others don't usually have incredibly boring interiors. Additionally, I could design the room(s) around the games you will be playing, for example, Mario has a lot of interior design opportunities. Moreover, I'm thinking that the room could even be changed with lights. What is mean is maybe the walls are LED screen walls that change based on the game you have selected for the Core. Obviously, I probably won't be able to do this in the time because firstly, I have no idea how I'd even make the display effect look good and as if it were a display and not just a flat wall. Secondly, it will take a lot of work to make a variety of designs for the walls. I also thought I could do animated walls, but I have no idea where to even begin for that. I would assume I just need to add a video player in the scene and put it really close to the wall to give off the effect, but again, I just don't have the time, so I'll probably just make the whole room quite boring in the game I make, but in a fully completed product, the office in particular would look so cool.
Office with Colour
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Modern Office Design
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LED Screen Walls
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I then also thought I'd have a quick look at what I want the green screen room to look like. I think the image I found is probably what resembles my idea best, since the walls will be completely green, whereas the ceiling and floor won't be. This is because I will want something to be left for you to return to in the game world when you walk off. This room will basically act as a spawn point and also be where you find the item chute to deposit items. I am imagining the non-green-screen part of the floor being circular, and a square-shaped ceiling with lights. These are what will also be visible in the game world, giving you an obvious, out-of-place area to return to. It acts like the Lethal Company ship or the lift in Content Warning, but instead of transporting you somewhere, the green-screen walls are filtered out by the headset, creating a fake environment around it. For the entrance to this room, it will just be a regular door, but painted green or with something green on the inside, so as not to ruin the immersion. Finally, the room will obviously include the Core, but also the simulation headsets and the platform that the players must stand on to enter the simulation. I'm still a little undecided on how I will introduce the item chute, but I might just make the Core somehow become it when you enter the simulation. The platform you stand on is important for a few reasons. For starters, it acts as the thing that keeps your body upright and safe in the real-world while you're in the simulation. However, it also acts as the way to get out, since all players must be on their platform and do something in order to leave when they want. If the time runs out and not all simulation operators are on their platform, everyone loses connection. When all operators are going into the simulation, anybody not going in (just CreditCore employees for the story, since all players must leave at the same time) shouldn't be in the simulation room. Anything inside will be brought through into the simulation, and people may mess it up; however, this is how a large arsenal of items can be brought in.
After doing this, I also went and created a floor plan that I imagined CreditCore to have, including most of the stuff that I'd need, as well as some of the story aspects, such as the large wind tunnel room. Obviously, they aren't fully decorated, mostly since the tool is annoying to work with, but also because I've spent quite a bit of time using the tool, and I should be focusing on other research more, so I needed to finish it with limited details, but still, I think it looks decent for the first concept design of the office.
Green Screen Room Setup Example
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Omni Motion VR Platform
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CreditCore Basic Floorplan - Created on floorplancreator.net
Shop
Shop
As well as the office and simulation rooms, I obviously will have to have a little look into what I want the shop to look and play like. My floor plan for now shows it as being a fairly large room, but this was just to fill the area to the side. In reality, I might end up making it smaller, since I don't need a whole lot of space for the idea of the shop. My idea, you ask? Well, I'm still thinking of keeping the digital screen that you are able to look around on. However, I'm thinking that the products should arrive in a Donkey Kong barrel, dropped in through a hatch either in the roof or the wall. Clearly, I haven't thought much of how it works, but I'm going to go down the route that it gets picked up from a big storage room and moved here on a conveyor belt. I haven't made the room yet on the floor plan, but I think it would fit in somewhere above the shop, and maybe loop around the top of the RDS and simulation rooms, and maybe the door entrance to the storage is accessed inside the wind tunnel room. It sounds like a bit of a weird design, and I think it's clear I'm not an architect, but for what I'm making, I won't make those two rooms available to enter anyway, so it'll just be some game magic. However, I think the conveyor into a hatch or window of some kind in the room fits fairly well. The other thing I'd have to think about is why you can't just go and get any items from the storage. I think the reason is that you're not necessarily buying the item, but more so the code. What I mean is that every barrel will have a code or something that keeps it locked. Therefore, to get the item, you need to purchase the code that unlocks it. I don't particularly want to make the player actually remember and input the code every time, so I'll just make an animation of some kind that quickly unlocks it, but I think it's my best idea. Then, once you're done with the barrel, they can just be chucked in some kind of disposal bin to keep the room clear. All of this should be explained in a walk-through at the start of the game, where you may get a free item of some kind to help, but you are also told how you need to carefully manage your money, since otherwise you won't have enough to buy time. All of this is something I need to think a bit more about, but I think it's a decent starting base I can go off of.
Digital Touchscreen Kiosk Shop Example
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Barrel on Conveyor Belt
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Barrel Hatch Example
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Item Chute
Item Chute
Next up, I needed to get a solidified idea for the item chute, which is where you insert items to get money. As I've previously explained, I would want this to basically visually replace the Core in the simulation, making it look a bit different, but still keeping the same sort of size, so you can interpret the chute as being the Core in the "real" world. For the design, I was thinking it would look somewhat similar to the cashout station you can find in The Finals. It's probably not going to be a bright yellow colour, but I do want it to have that kind of chute hatch design. I've attached another image of how I want it to be more like a flap, and maybe have it be similar to how, in R.E.P.O., you are able to interact with a lot of things using the physics. I think this would be really cool; however, I'm unsure how easy this would be to make without wasting a load of time, so temporarily, I might just remove the flap altogether.
Additionally, I will have to take into consideration the size of items that you can find around the map. The reason for this is that the hole can only be so big, but if certain items are too large to fit, I'll either need to think of a different way to use them, or I'll need to shrink the item or increase the hole size. Either way, for the most part, it should be alright, but it's good that I've thought ahead, just in case this happens to be a problem I encounter while making the game.
Chute Flap Idea
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The Finals Cashout Station
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Comparative Games
Comparative Games
For comparative games, I have a whole bunch that I can reference. For starters, I obviously have to talk a little about Lethal Company. It's the main inspiration for this whole project idea, and it has provided such a great amount of fun in the past, which would be great to try and replicate in some way. I still think that the monsters you find in the game are one of the things that make it so unique, since the variation really forces you to learn every little bit about the game instead of the way for dealing with them all being the same. What I mean by this is that for something like the Eyeless Dogs, you just have to stay quiet. However, something more well-known to the game is the Bracken, which is a little more in-depth for people who haven't heard of it. Also known as the Flowerman, the Bracken stalks players, trying to get behind them to snap their necks. If spotted, they will enter a retreat phase, where they run far from the player as quickly as possible. If stared at for too long, they may get angered and chase you down instead for a certain amount of time. It's this level of detail put into a game that makes it interesting, something that I would ideally like to replicate, but instead will depend on the amount of knowledge you have of certain retro games. I will be trying to make the entities have a similar feeling to the real game, meaning you have to use the skills from them in this to beat it.
As well as a lot of other Lethal Company-style games, such as Content Warning and R.E.P.O. (both of which I've already talked about), I am also going to be taking some inspiration from Arcade Paradise, primarily for the style. Although the gameplay is also something pretty cool, I'm fairly sure they've just recreated some old retro games in their own style, as well as changing the story and stuff, so I can't really take inspiration from them, since I'm using actual retro games and bringing them into 3D worlds you explore. Therefore, the main aspects I will be taking are the designs I can put into rooms, such as the flooring, lights and a bunch of other stuff. I think the game looks really cool, and feels quite realistic to an old arcade, not that I really know what it feels like to go to one, but still, good for reference.
Lethal Company - Monsters & Story
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Arcade Paradise - Layout & Style
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Multiplayer
Multiplayer
The multiplayer aspect is the most daunting part of selecting this game to make, since it's something I've never done before, and barely looked into. Before, I've seen that you need to create some kind of server, link everything to some kind of cloud storage data, and then finally connect the Unity project to it and make some code to create it. In all honesty, I think this is one of the first things I need to consider adding when I begin production, primarily because I have no idea how to add multiplayer, and if it means I need to code a certain way, there's no reason for me to leave it to the very end if I'm just going to have to change a bunch of stuff. However, I could also completely forget about adding multiplayer altogether, in favour of adding more content to make a single-player game feel more complete. In my opinion, though, multiplayer is more important, especially because that's the main reason a game like Lethal Company is so enjoyable. However, knowing how to implement multiplayer and being able to do it in many other projects a bit easier is also a huge positive for me, just like how now I know how to allow multiple people to edit one Unity project, which is something that will surely come in handy when I get into university.
For implementation, there are a lot of YouTube tutorials which are probably going to be my go-to for helping me understand how to make it work. AI is great, and I'll probably still be using it for some code, but a visual representation and walkthrough of how something as technical as this works is exactly what I need. The main issue I feel like I'm going to have is how I can put all of this together inside a Lethal Company-style game. I'm hoping there's some kind of tutorial out there to help, or I'm hoping the tools and information I get from YouTube videos are enough for me to implement it myself, but it's still something that might be a bit difficult. The other aspect is going to be how everything looks. What I mean by this is if I'm adding multiplayer, players will be able to see each other's characters, which, for me, probably isn't the best, since now I will have to make basic animations, and I can't just have a torso or arms that the first-person camera would see. Luckily, there are plenty of online resources I can get for characters, and since it's only going to be a basic game, the look and animations don't have to be anything crazy, just something that doesn't ruin the immersion too much. Looking at something like R.E.P.O. is a great way to start, since you are just a little robot. That was simple, but very effective for the comedy aspect, as well as having a fairly simple, but recognisable character. If I can come up with something simple, probably not something I'll make, but at least download something fairly unique that is customisable, I'll be set. Customisability is another thing that I'll need to think a bit about. I might just be able to change colour and some kind of accessories to distinguish players apart, but the more the better. However, this isn't something that important, so I'll keep it as a stretch goal of sorts if I feel like I have the time to improve the character.
Games (Maps)
Games (Maps)
The maps that you will be playing on are the main focal points of the game, since I need to make especially older players feel some nostalgia, whilst also not making levels feel too repetitive and boring. I'd really like to have two or three maps complete, allowing you to purchase and experience a few different environments, as well as providing an example for how the rest of the game would play and how you would progress. My initial thought was to have one console or system set up, such as the PS1, and all the maps I create are referenced from the games originally being released, or the most well-known titles, on these specific devices. However, I am now thinking that if I get around to making multiple maps, I can instead make one for each system, so a game map for the PS1, Gameboy, arcade machine, etc. Moreover, this allows me to show further how a fully released, or at least a more developed product, would look. This gives a bit more functionality to the Core, allowing you to actually change the connection to a different RDS for a reason, instead of it just not working when you do it. It also allows me to experiment with some more designs of the RDS, and maybe even give me more opportunities to make some UI menus, which is not only what I like to do, but I could experiment with some new ideas if I'm going down the route of how certain systems already work. For example, for the PS1, I could make the RDS work similarly to how the main menu works for that console.
How I'm going to style the maps is a little different. For example, Pac-Man, which is one of the games I'm heavily considering to use, would just be a maze map where Pac-Man and some ghosts are constantly moving around the area. Not only is it a perfect game for nostalgic reasons, but it's the perfect one to ease you in gradually. It would be based on an arcade machine system. A game like Super Mario 64 is another great one, and for that, I might instead base it on the interior design of one or more buildings. I think one of the most memorable is Princess Peach's Castle, which was apparently a hub world. This would, obviously, be based on the Nintendo 64 system. Finally, Tetris was a game that I had thought about making a world for. Although first made on [27] an Elektronika 60 computer, I would instead go for the Game Boy release that is more recognisable, both game and system. This is probably going to be my most challenging game world, because what can I really do for the world, other than make blocks fall from the sky randomly? I would guess that they could be the danger, so you'd just always have to watch out for them dropping on top of you, but other than that, I'll have to make structures just out of the Tetris blocks. On the bright side, this should be a fairly basic map to create, with very limited items, but it's going to take some thinking about. I may instead have this be the first game you unlock, but I don't know if that's too boring and if it'll lose user retention too fast.
For this project, I think my goal is to have 2 or 3 different games that you can explore. Originally, I was thinking of making the games you play unique from the original titles from specific systems. What I mean by this is only using games that were first released on the console or other device you have selected. However, I think I can move away from this and instead make a game for any system, just reusing certain maps while altering the map loot pool. However, I won't really have any use for this in my FMP because I won't have enough time to create that many maps, so it'll just be a stretch goal to re-add maps to different systems. One idea for how I could change games based on the system is how they look. For example, if I take my previous idea for Tetris being one of the games I make, I could use the old Game Boy green look for the Game Boy system, and the more well-known, coloured version for something like the arcade machine system. This would hopefully be fairly easy to implement into my game, since all I'd need to do is change some textures around, as well as what items can spawn in. Then, I'll have completed 3 games, but have provided at least 4 purchasable ones with some more variety, and of course, nostalgia.
Pac-Man 3D Map Example
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Super Mario 64 Princess Peach Castle
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Tetris on the Game Boy
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Game Entities
Game Entities
As well as the game maps, I am going to have to think about the entities you will encounter in your journeys. Here, I will go through the three main maps I will most probably be creating for my FMP. For starters, we have Pac-Man, which, as already talked about, will include Pac-Man and some ghosts. I feel like the ghosts should have a respawn timer of some kind, or I should make the map relatively large and put quite a few around that have their own surveillance areas to prevent you from eliminating them all straight away. With regards to Pac-Man, I think he should be the main character of the area, resulting in him becoming the most difficult to deal with. My idea for some items in the game is that you can find Power Pellets that you can either save and deposit into the item chute for a fairly large sum of money, or you could eat them if you're around ghosts, giving you the ability to eat them for a short period of time. Additionally, you might be able to find the regular Pac-Dots around the level that you can turn into money. However, there could be a few things I could implement to make it more difficult to collect lots of them. For starters, maybe Pac-Man is also looking for them, so he will gradually eat them all. Moreover, maybe if you have them in your inventory, Pac-Man will be alerted to your rough location, meaning you should dispose of them quickly to prevent him from being able to easily find you. To eliminate him, maybe there's a specific item in the store that you can buy, which will temporarily stop him. I feel like he shouldn't ever be completely gone, so there's always going to be some kind of threat lurking around corners, but at least this would give you some time.
Moving on to a game like Super Mario 64, it would obviously be awesome to almost recreate the game maps entirely, but I definitely won't have the time. Instead, I feel like I should add just a little bit of each map into their designated doors inside the castle. On top of that, the entities inside each room could be exactly like what they are in the actual game. However, in Super Mario 64, they drop a coin every time you eliminate one. I wouldn't want something like that, because otherwise, you could very easily get infinite money in my game. Instead, I'll probably just have them drop nothing, but keep respawning. That might be similar to what I have in my Pac-Man game, because I don't want everything to be easily eliminatable, and then you have nothing left to worry about. I think having the main boss similar to Pac-Man is probably a good idea, too, but you won't need any special tool to help you. Instead, I'll have to try to implement the movement and mechanics that are inside of SM64. Not only should something similar just be possible anyway, but an action like body slamming yourself into the ground is a feature I'd love to see in more games.
Finally, Tetris. This is going to be a tough game to implement separate entities into because the game doesn't really have them normally. My thought process behind it is that while you are going around trying to find items, some blocks come alive as a living entity, rather than just being a solid block falling from the sky. If you get too close to these blocks, they will wake up and begin chasing you. I think it would be cool if they sort of acted like a mix between the Bracken and Coil Head (basically a weeping angel) from Lethal Company. By default, they will just stalk you if you are within a certain radius. However, looking anywhere near them will cause them to flee and hide. They try to stay hidden by blending in with the environment, but I feel that it's probably better if they don't attack if you get too close, especially since I plan on having a few roaming around. I think they should be fairly opportunistic, creeping up behind you quite fast. A video I watched a while back actually includes this very feature as the main aspect of the game. In this video, [29] the developer has challenged himself to create a horror game using a random asset pack. He chooses to create a horror game that has a similar gameplay idea to that of Pumpkin Panic, a game I researched a lot about during my first year of FMP. The idea is simple: grow pumpkins, sell them for money, but beware of any suspicious pumpkins. He then did quite a bit of programming, trying to get the AI just how he wanted. Initially, they just moved slowly towards him when he was facing away, stopped if you looked in their direction, and jump attack you if they were close enough. However, the game got repetitive and easy, so he made some changes in the way they worked. For starters, they would try to run out of sight if you turn around, making you constantly more confused about their whereabouts. Not only that, but they just acted a lot smarter, instead of the basic "move towards player and attack". Although the YouTube developer wasn't using Unity, it must be possible to replicate some sort of AI like that, and he apparently did the whole game in 24 hours, so I should be able to get something similar in the weeks I have, even though I have a lack of experience.
Before I finish, I should probably discuss what I want the entities to look like. Although I'll get a bit more into that later, I'm just going to do a basic, low-poly model for them. Hopefully, when I later add some kind of pixelation effect, it'll sell the game's graphics as retro style instead of something more modern. I am hoping they look somewhat similar to old PS1 characters, mixed with a bit of the pixel art style seen in arcade games in particular.
3D Pixelated Pac-Man
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Some SM64 Enemies
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Tetris Entity Ideas
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PvE Mechanics
PvE Mechanics
When going into any game like R.E.P.O. and Content Warning and Lethal Company, there is always going to be an encounter with enemies which you will have to deal with one way or another. Although I've sort of already talked about how the gameplay might work, I do still have more ideas. For starters, I really want to make it so you can throw something like controllers to either distract or stun an entity. This will never be enough to eliminate them or take them out for any great length of time, but it does give you the chance to get away. Going back to the Pac-Man level, you will be chased and outnumbered. You could just get Pac-Man close to the ghosts, since I will want him to be scared of them, however, that doesn't really help if there isn't any ghosts, or if you get cornered somewhere. Being able to throw the controller at them would buy you just enough time to run around them, as well as possibly getting you out of their line of sight. Thinking a little deeper into this, you will also be able to find a few Power Pellets which you could eat, giving you the chance to instead chase and take down the ghosts. I was previously undecided for if there would be a set amount or if they would respawn, but I think I'll just have the regular 4, maybe plus a few more if I make the map large, that do respawn after a certain amount of time. I also feel like making the Power Pellets non-renewable is a good idea, since, yes, you are on a time limit, but it's just free money if players can just sit at one and it respawns after a certain time. Moreover, for Pac-Man, I will make some kind of item you can buy from the store to temporarily distract/eliminate him, but he will always return. Since there is a frog named after Pac-Man, called the pacman frog, or scientifically known as the horned frog, I am thinking maybe there's something I could make that fits within that circumstance, but I don't really know what.
Target Audience
Target Audience
Look & Feel
Look & Feel
Audio
Audio
Saving
Saving
Cheats
Cheats
Ethical & Environmental Considerations
Ethical & Environmental Considerations
Timetable for Upcoming Weeks & Trello Board
Timetable for Upcoming Weeks & Trello Board
Assets
Assets
Menus
Menus
Settings
Settings
SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
- I've already worked with the tools I will be using quite a bit
- I have played similar games and still have access to them if I need ideas
- I won't have to worry too much about the graphics being AAA comparable, since it's meant to be low-poly like retro games
- I have produced other games since my time at college, so I feel somewhat prepared
- I have the equipment I need to also complete work at home if needed
Weaknesses
- Very limited amount of time
- Lots of modelling and texturing involved, which isn't my speciality
- I have yet to implement multiplayer into other projects, so it's something new
- I haven't ever made transitions between multiple maps before, probably including scenes, so that's something I'll have to set up
- I haven't played many retro games since I wasn't from that era of gaming
Opportunities
- Producing my best work yet, using all the skills I've gained from the 2 years at college
- Hopefully be able to publish a playable game
- Will have something very useful to put in my portfolio
- Explore more games that I haven't played and have no idea what they're about
- Begin learning how to add multiplayer and what is needed to set it up and use it in future projects
Threats
- The base idea has already been created, so it's not unique
- Copyright is an issue since I'm considering using certain characters and textures
- Limited audience and visibility since it would only be published on itch.io, and probably won't get many players if published
- I won't have enough time to get lots of gameplay implemented, meaning I'll have a stale game
- The work I have given myself to complete in the time is daunting and difficult for my experience and skill level
References
References
Week 4
Week 4
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Week 5
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