Developing the Aliens

Here I was just looking at some different design andstyles of how id like the aliens to look. I will be creating other different types of alien concepts in the future. But I thought Id work a little on this to make a character out of it. The prgression developed from the other sketches. from the creasted head i tried to extend it and addd tenticals and on the other I attempted to add some horns to the designs I felt a few of these worked well. I also attempted to add in small strands of hair. Im unsure about keeping it in though for future designs.

Rough Alien Designs

First lots of rough designs had quite large necks etc, slight over exadurated features, as the face came out a little and the head at the back was extended.
I added small little tetacles to the chin to make it slightly more alien like in features.

The other design was slightly more femanin in terms of looks but I quite liked the design to this one. The face was a lil more squashed in the side veiw which i didnt like so much, that may of had to be changed when carrying on the idea further.

Forum - Beyondmoons

I set up a forum for this project using the invisionfree site. My main aim for this was so that I could invite people i know that have interest in games as well as people they may know interested to share their thoughts on what they might like out of game play experiance and help us get a better understanding of what the audiance of the game might like more of in the games.

Also I put up little more social areas in the forum so that members can descuss things freely so their not bound to one thing consistently.
The GAME section is mainly for use of myself, Dave and James because that is where our work goes for others to share their thoughts before we take it futher. We feel this will help us with feedback off compasionate gamers and help us acheive what the audiance would like to see.

The forum is set up to a member log in only, but people can freely register to it to join in. This is only to stop local people and guests spamming the forum :3

Anyhow here is the link, Will hope to see some of you have joined and followed us on the forum ^^

Beyond moons forum

NEW GAME PROJECT !!!!! - Negotiated studies

From here onwards will be about a completely new games project so the following stuff after this post will be on the NEGOTIATED STUDIES project and not the previous one.

For this project myself, Dave and James have joined in a group to expand on ideas and designs bringing it hopefully all together in 3D.

From my ideas on what to do I mind mapped small ideas together on theams to help me think up what it should be baised around.
These theams where mainly looking at Medevel - the environments and vehicles, Roman/Greek - mainly looking at the mythology and the armour for inspiration, Victorian - mainly looked at vehicles, This theam i dont think would work for many reasons so I didnt want to base a game around it. Norse - This I fel was a good Idea to work with since it had many isprations to look at such as traditional points, armour and weaponry and their mythological beliefs could also be coorporated in with it. The other choice was looking at Tribal themes - This I would be looking at mainly environmental designs as well as spiritual beliefs and culture.

The final choice I came to look at was space/ futuristic themes since I hadnt tried a space theme before.
For this theme I could look at mainly Hi-tech objects, weaponry and armour and would have maybe a little more freedom on the designs of stuff with this theame.
The sections I looked at where as followed broken down:

VEHICLES - Futuristic theme, would look at perhaps animes etc for inspiration for these sort of things.

ARMOUR AND WEAPONRY - Futuristic in style. Should mainly be parts of scrap metal, wires, robotic limbs and other scraps of technology used for body armour.

ENVIRONMENTS - Im guessing for this other planets in the sky, perhaps oddly coloured skys, tress or other natural things such as plant life and sea. Perhaps futuristic buildings can be added as well as some other strange sights in actual space.

CULTURE - There will be different races in the game so I assume the cultures will be different. these will be added in with the creatures designs and biographys :D

RACES AND CREATURES - Will mainly be alien baised but can be made around humanoid builds. I imagine some creatures will have basic forms of DNA as that as creatures on earth though evolved differently so they do not loose sight of what the creature is baised off but still have the oddness and characteristics of an alien. There will be humans in the world to balance out races.
As for a story I have not yet decided on a solid story yet since Id like to do that as a group and not run off ahead without James and Dave.

Dave and James also have a seporate idea on what to do since James would like to go for a lord of the rings theam, wheres as Dave has also gone for a space theam approace, though his idea consists of less developed spaces travel where humans have not long grasped the technology to go into space and have built domes to live in that orbit the earth. So we will possibly discuss this , maybe try and add in all elements with out it making the game seem to over complicated or mismatched in theme.