[Concept Art/Game] Dan's Game Project

[WhoWhatMan]

Hi, I disappeared off the face of the earth for some months due to using Twitter often and wanting to develop a project of mine.

So this project in question is a RPG that is (tentatively) named Walter.

Art made by Samson from twitter (srsly commission him, he put way too much effort for the prices he ask for) ((also character designs are legit not final))

I showed off the robot character once or twice before but yeah, his name is Walter and he's the main character of this game. He lived in a world where it's like ours, but just with advanced robotics. They can range from simple cleaning tools, workers/actors/any role you can think of with human like personality to giant military mechs. Walter, on the other hand, was made in a basement through the teamwork of a young couple that just got out of college.  He act as a extra hand at his creators' general shop. 

Recently, in the world of Walter, there were couple of terroristic crimes throughout the world by a unknown extremist group. Their goals aren't clear but most of their crimes greatly involve use of robots. Either they be hijacked or custom made, this causes some rising tension between the relationships of humans and machines. As a way to ease the tension, the government made a program called the "Reconnection Project" where they have a randomly chosen robot to go through the motions of human life instead of being stuck doing one job. As a way to get anywhere with the plot, Walter was chosen to be the first volunteer on this experimental project. Due to Walter having a mentality of a young child, he get sent to a school.

During Walter's... adventure(?), he'll make many relationships with his classmates and the citizens in his home town. The three kids, from left to right, are named Miguel, Amanda and James. Considered these guys as the starting party.

Miguel is a young Hispanic boy and is a classmate with Walter. He is bit of a trouble maker and tad to act without thinking. The type that wouldn't mind being dirty or worry about being sick by playing outside during a storm. Unfortunately due to his excitable personality, most of his peers view him as annoying.  During battle, Miguel fights by throwing his shoes and shouts (childish) insults toward his enemies. Though, if he miss his target, he had to waste a turn to run and pick up his shoe.

Amanda is a peer of Walter at his school.  Her family own one of the leading robotic manufacturers in the state and in turn, this caused some unneeded paparazzi to follow her around when she's out of school. It got worsen when a rumor was broke out about a controversy regarding her family's business. Despite that, Amanda keep a calm and cool personality and occasionally revealed that she's pretty street smart. In battle, Amanda abuses the hell out of her data plan and make massive use of her phone. She can call for a pizza, some backup (aka assists) or even requested an air strike.

Finally, James is in Walter's homeroom. James is a worrywart; wanting things to go smoothly as possible without trouble. He is prone to panic when he's in a situation that he isn't familiar with. Outside of that, James is a smart and kind young man that enjoy knitting. He make use of this talent in battle. With his scarf, he can slap enemies with it or get them into a bind to limit their mobility. He can also knit items during battle and offer them as a  gift (bribe) toward his enemies to make them more kinder toward the party or to make them leave.

And there's more characters to come that can assist Walter and his group of friends on the way.... if I can get the money soon to pay the main artist anyway.

So yeah, the game is a turn based RPG mixed with a heavy focus on side quest/activities. So imagine a mixed of Earthbound in term of gameplay and the Yakuza series in term of the weird side stories you get into if you choose to do these side tasks. Similar to the Persona series, they do give you some benefits when you complete them. You'll earn two things when you complete a quest from a character: Bonus stats and assist you in battle. With bonus stats, each character can hold a certain amount of bonus stats. They can range from having higher offense or being strong against certain attacks. This way, you can customize your party to your liking. On the assists, if you run into a battle in the character's general area, there is a high possibility that they'll join in your fight and help you out. It will also make Amanda's phone call for help more efficient by lowering the amount of turns for the character to come and help.

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Okay, post dump is over lol. This is gonna be a long lasting project of mine and I want to have some place to share my ideas and basically do like a "production blog". The updates are going to be super infrequent since I'm still working on finalizing Walter's world and gameplay ON TOP of learning how to make a game proper AND also making money to commission people to bring my ideas in a more presentable light. But uh yeah, I hope you guys enjoy reading my ideas on this project of mine and I'm gonna try my best to make it into an actual product instead of keeping it a day dream.

[Scott]

i don't care if it's not final....THAT ART IS GORGEOUS!!!

 

Definitely loving Miguel and Walters designs the most! Really look forward to seeing more of this!

[WhoWhatMan]

Thanks, Scott! Glad that you enjoy their designs.

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Alright, another day (well night) for a update despite me saying that it's going to be super infrequent! (Don't expect updates back to back after this point lmao) 

Like I kinda mentioned in my last post, Walter can run into many side characters in this game and walk into their own little problems and world. One of which is the deadliest, edgiest infamous vigilante in  town.....

SKULLCRACKER

he didn't really think out his name through

Art by Ferris on Twitter

Skullcracker is a urban legend among the kids at Walter's middle school. Many said that he hide in the shadow and jump at any evil doer in any alley. Other claim that he's "above" the law and want to "stick it to the man". Many people, children especially, looked up to him due to how he look like a sentai hero but with bit of a EDGE....

But in actuality, he's some 40 year old who's going through a mid life crisis and wanting to break away from his samey, old job. He blew his budget on the mask so he had to scrapped together random article of clothing to make it work.

Anyhow, Miguel (Being a fan of sentai/power rangers like shows) caught wind of these rumors and thus, start a "hunt" with Walter and the others to find this masked man to get an... autograph.

Yep

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Alrighty, so I want the tone of this game to be "The Sandlot" mixed with weeby, anime garbage and well, this character is part of the latter half of my mission statement. The main inspiration was Kamen Rider (Specifically, Kamen Rider Skull) and bit of Skullomania from Street Fighter EX. Initially, he was going to be more a straight example of this archetype but I asked the artist to play up the "edgy" aspect of his design.  I eat edgy looking characters up so I was delighted when he made this new design! He's part of a "chapter" (just calling it that for simplicity) where Walter and friends sneak around in the town at night to find this vigilante. I like to make different part of the game focus on certain things. This one for example is more of a exploration section with heavy focus on dialogue and mini bosses (That I'm going to hold off from showing for now). Other sections of the game  maybe focus more on the usual RPG affair, on puzzles or what have you. 

Unfortunately, he won't be a "main" party member but he'll join Walter as a temporary one at various points and will be one of many character assist you can use. I hope I can fresh out his scenario as I develop this game along and share more information about this guy in future!

[WhoWhatMan]

Made by a discord friend

Hello! It been a while since the last update. I got a job now so hopefully the wait can be less long (and I can irresponsibly spend it on video games). Now, I got some other stuff in holding but I decided it would be best to not blow it all off on one giant post and instead give you some small pieces of the pie. The usual artist I commissioned (https://twitter.com/jungleasian) is still working on the last group of art so I feel it'll be a good build up! Anyway, not to delay any further, let's get going!

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Walter BOOM

 

Oh boy! Redesigns! All it amount to is giving a character a change of clothes, so don't worry!  No one  else is gonna have this big(?) of a change. To begin with Walter, I noticed that he kinda looked like Sans from Undertale and I really want to avoid those dumb "IT'S SANS UNDERTALE" memes in the future if this project make headway so I gave Sam some suggestions and rough sketches to give a good idea of his new outfit. Now it's a raincoat and to accommodate, he got a change of boots! I wasn't ever a fan of Walter's furboots of his old design so this change made me greatly happy. Finally, those arrow things on his legs is where his ball joints are at (Imagine Chibi Robo). Just added as a way so Walter won't have weird noodle legs.

As for James, I wanted to fix his color scheme because I notice the amount of red that the characters I revealed so far got. So I'm gonna be shifting around the colors for him in the future. The only big changes he got beside that is the removal of those green triangles and now wear pants and shoes. The shorts and boots from the original didn't really make sense considering he's wearing a jacket AND a scarf. 

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BUT YEAH! That's today update. It wasn't too mind blowing but the next couple of updates are going to be some new characters (in which I tease in some of my status updates). Hopefully you stay tune for that!

[MightyRay]

This is looking good! You've picked a really good artist to commission, they've nailed those expressions very well. I'll be keeping my eye on this project!

[WhoWhatMan]

Thanks Ray! He's a pretty cool dude and highly recommend commissioning him (which is like the tenth time I said that but still)

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Sam finished up the last couple of characters so now I can have some steady steam of updates! (For like, 3 days)

Stacy

Another classmate of Walter. She's part of the robotics club. Despite her robotics team numerous failed attempt of reaching first place in the bimonthly, school district sponsored robobattle tournaments, Stacy keep a positive attitude and encouraging her teammates to keep advancing forward and experimenting to see what sticks. She is also prone to overworking herself and being late to classes. 

 

Stacy can be part of Walter's party and make use of her previously failed projects to do HER BIDDING

yeah. 

Bryan

Bryan is like that tag along friend and is just "there". He's pretty quiet and act super nonchalant at literally anything. He could be getting mugged and getting threaten at knife point and all his reaction would be "Oh". Beside that, he play the guitar but really sucks at it... like the only song he can play really well is the first 16 seconds of Smoke on the Water. He's trying though! 

 

Bryan is another party member and make use of his (poor) guitar playing skills to boost various character's stats. It's the passion that count!

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Alrighty, these two guys are more members for Walter's party. Stacy's design was originally going to be Amanda's but I feel it can stand as a separate character. Plus, it kinda dude city at the moment so hopefully I'll get more female characters to be designed to balance the male to female ratio. Initially Stacy was also going to act as a "guide". I planned on Amanda to have the ability to take pictures of enemies and send it to Stacy to get important and unimportant favor text about them. It kinda like Goombella's tattletale from Thousand Year Door (Don't worry though, I got someone else to take care of that role!). Bryan was based off of my short time of trying to learn to play guitar until I eventually given up on it. His personality is based off of my guitar tutor.  

 

But yeah, that's it for today! Still got some more characters to show off so I hope you guys stay tuned. 

[WhoWhatMan]

Uh Hi LOL

Sorry for just being gone! I just did some growing up to do and focusing on my time elsewhere (also generally embarrassed by how I acted on here when I was younger like every adult gets when they're looking back)

So first thing first, I am 100 percent way more active on twitter over here and you'll be able to see me being alive and talking wow! You will also tend to see me posting art there first than here since this is a rather old website that I don't really want to associate with as much, if I have to be brutally honest.

Second, my art skill certainly got better so I'm going to post more of my stuff that may or may not be related to this current project right now. 

To start off, here's the current castaroni of what this thread was originally based on 

Drawn by yours truly
 

They have bit of a different look than before, don't you think? Especially in term of Walter.

So the reasoning for walter's drastic design change is that the TV head look is kind of generic? Some of my friends made some slight jokes about his old look and this WONDERFUL art attack I got from this year's art fight (which is underneath the spoiler due to slight nsfwness (Nothing sexual, just a beef boy is in the mix lol)

Spoiler

kind of bought into light at how overused the TV Head look was. So in turn, I decided that I should up the "a robot that was made on a zero dollar budget in a college grad's basement" look and give the redesign he got now. Hope you'll like it! I try the best to give the same kind of "odd yet cute" qualities of the original. 

Oh yeah, also the story got changed a bit to be ten times less extreme but I'll get into that when I have more stuff done because uh, terrorist attacks sounds way too extreme for this project LOL so please disregard about what I got written up for the characters and whatnot until this point. 

Anyhow in term of smaller stuff, I played around with some design for a shop keeper NPC

 

I felt inspired by the character designs in Drill Dozer so I tried to apply that into these guys' designs. Their name is Mimi and Momo and they run uh, some kind of shop that is going to be forgotten probably when you find a better one BUT YKNOW STILL  

On the fan art side of things, I drew Amitie from Puyo Puyo!

 

Hope ya guys like because I'm awfully proud of this drawing.

Anyhow, that's all for today. It might take a whole year for me to post again but again, please follow my twitter if you want to see what's up with me!

Edited December 3, 2018 by WhoWhatMan
grammatical mistakes. this is what i get for posting at 11 pm lmao