5. Art Bible
We are using the sprites from the Play Station version of the game, those can be found here.
Each character has its diferent personality and so its correspondent color palette. The level of detail in the game is pixel art, so the characters are an aproximation to the concept art images bellow. We didn't choose the main final fantasy charcaters to create our game but the ones that could give a nice impression and give the game a new look.
We have four main characters from which the player will choose. The camera sees the characters with a top-down perspective view, and remains this way all the game. The camera of each player follow its character.
This character is a blonde blue eyed female wizard that wears a long white dress with red decorations. She seems to be the cute happy adventurer.
Basic Attack
Special Attack
Ultimate Ability (smoke animation)
He is an old wise wizard, who wears long and wide clothes. He's got a long white beard that remind of characters like Gandalf or Dumbledore and give the feeling of experience.
Basic Attack
Special Attack
Ultimate Ability (Teleport animation)
It is the most discusting scary looking character in our game, it gives the creeps. It reminds of characters like David Jones who give the feel of the unknown. He is related to death and black magic.
Basic Attack
Special Attack (Ink splash)
Ultimate Ability (Tentacles show the area of effect)
She looks like a more serious advanced warrior who has a huge ability with weapons. She has a medieval green look of misticism.
Basic Attack/Ultimate abillity (Normal axe / Axe when stuck on the ground)
The map tilesets used the original game maps as references, they can be found in here. There are up to 125 different maps and different lands in the Final Fantasy world from the original game in this website. The map is divided in 4 distinct zones so players can recognize where in the map they are.
The perspective is top-down and the borders are made mostly of water (or it's equivalent depending on the tileset).
One for each Zone
We will be using the Minecraft font which can be found here.
All menus revolve around a book.
Is the cover:
The rest of the menu screens are the inside pages of the book.
Players can select and try their character.
Screen before each round so players can look at the map first.
Music and sound sliders and keybinding support.
Transition between menus.
The life points of each character will be reflected in a bar placed on top of each character. The special ability bar will be placed in each player's screen. In the middle of the four screens, a time watch will display the remaining time for all the players.
Each player has its circle under it so they can be better differentiated. The otter cian circle indicates if the shield is available.
Each player has also these arrows around them pointing towards other players.
The shield ability:
Crystals:
Bubbles (Spawn and death)
Death Screen (for each individual screen)
