Roguelike

To the left and right are some examples of the camera angle we want to go for, which is an isometric view/camera. Diablo 4 and Baldur's Gate 3 are perfect examples of what this view looks like. Another reason I got screenshots from these games is that they are not only successful, but after personally playing these games for many hours, this camera view is ideal for a game. It can include a lot on the screen at once, making the player the center of attention in the view, with everything going on behind it. Also research into this camera view also can  give me on ideas on how i can break the rig to make my animations look better from the camera view without the player noticing. The camera is also important as depending on the camera angle you can then do certain movements that break the rig of a character but look good from the players point of view

To the left is a chart from our initial survey we put out that asks what people's favorite roguelike game is, and one of the options was Dead Cells. So, to act on this information of people choosing Dead Cells, below you will find screenshots from Dead Cells with descriptions about what they are showing that makes them important to our brief.

For question 1, we asked people what their favorite aspect of a roguelike game was, and the most popular choice was combat. This tells us that one of the main focuses in the development of our game should be the combat, as this helps the game to feel nice to play and fun. Combat is also a major way to engage our players in the game, so a good combat system will be crucial to a successful roguelike game.

In contrast, if the combat was not fluid, fun, and engaging, our players could get very bored quickly, which is something that you don't want in a game, especially one that has a massive focus on combat.

For question 2, we asked people what their favorite aspects of roguelike games were, and the most popular responses were related to combat and the replayability of roguelike games. As I already talked about the importance of combat in a roguelike, I won't go into much detail, but it is one of the main engaging factors in a game like ours. Replayability is also a huge part of this game type and tells us that one of the big focuses for us should be to find interesting and unique ways to make our game replayable.

Yet, in contrast to this, for a roguelike game where it is crucial to its design that it is replayable, and if it hasn't got much replayability, then that would be a massive error in the game's design as it is a huge part of this type of game.

Here for question 3, we asked what people's favorite roguelike games were. We did this to help find the most popular one. This would help us know what games to look at to see what they did right and wrong, and do our best to avoid these to make our game the best we possibly can. This will also help give us inspiration for what kind of mechanics should be present in our game and ideas of how to execute them. 

For question 4, we then asked why this is your favorite roguelike game. We asked this to help identify what people's favorite things about these games were. The most popular response for this was how all the runs you do in the game feel different and unique and how the mechanics in these games are smooth and engaging. This again reinforces what we should be focusing on for mechanics and how if we have bad mechanics, our game will be unenjoyable, also further reinforcing how important combat is to a game like this.

For question 5, we asked what makes roguelikes appealing or unappealing. We did this to further reinforce and find out what people like about the genre of games. The findings from this question further reinforce how important combat is in a game of this type. The answers we received also mentioned the replayability and how it helps the game to stay fresh and enjoyable. In this question, we also have an example of why surveys can sometimes be ineffective as we got a response that tells us that someone didn't understand the question and interpreted it wrong, which can be a result of the way we asked the question, something to improve for our next survey. 

For question 6, we then turned focus on asking people if a the story was important to our game. The results we got where very interesting as all the answers we received where above 5.

These results tell us and show that a good story in a roguelike game is also important to the enjoyability of a game. this is because a story in a game is another engaging and important feature of a roguelike game. 

For question 7, we asked about how the levels should be designed. The overwhelming answer for this question was open levels.

This was a crucial question to ask as it is vital to the level design to know what levels people enjoy in roguelike games.

As the more popular result was open levels, it also tells us that people like freedom and the ability to be creative in roguelike games.

For the final question we asked about the theme of the game. (here you will find more explanation to why we asked this question) This was another crucial question to ask , as if people didn't like the theme which was a main part of the game that would mean that people may not enjoy and engage in our game.

The theme is a major part of the game as all of the characters , weapons and levels are based in 15th century london.

Here is a negative review that gives Hades a 0/10 and talks about the repetitiveness that the reviewer finds in Hades, making the game very boring. This helps us as it gives us insight into what to avoid in making our game, which is repetitive systems. 

Here is a negative review that gives Dead Cells a 2/10 and talks about how the grind in this game is very boring. Further on, this user talks about the loot system in this game being 'rubbish' and how the weapons are 'terrible'. This review helps us avoid making weapons that have no impact on the gameplay and are not engaging to use.