Into Chaos
The story of my
level:
The level is a station in orbit around a large planet. Inside it is like
a city headed by elected Chairman of the inter galactic federation Ashtar. As
shown in the previous post, I want my city to resemble the one in Minority
report and I want it to be under a honeycomb like dome allowing the citizens to
look out at the galaxy. This community is a center for genetic research on the
planet below.
You are an important
member of the crew summoned to Chairman Ashtar’s quarters (The bot will tell
you to follow the green lights). You are racing there due to urgent news. On
the way there the urgent news becomes very apparent. All citizens are told to
go to their assigned escape pods. You now follow the red arrows.
(Another
possible story to do with this set up is that you are infiltrating this station
to help bring it down, which would allows stunts that deal with security traps
and cops)
NEW IDEA: (I'll be doing some more drawing because I suddenly had this idea and I think I just got married to it...)
You're not a reptilian... and you are going in to destroy the ship (alternate route that is open for only the first lap where you must run into the ships power core, which will set off the alarms and start the chaos?) And everyone else on the ship is reptilian (which makes for a lot of fun signs and posters). You're reason? They are in orbit around your home planet and do genetic research on your people.
New things this would allow that are not yet in the sketches below?
-cop chases
-sirens
-security traps
-announcements
Disaster Events?
-The moon, or something else in orbit, is crashing into the station
-The planet below is fighting back and is shooting or crashing ships into
the space station.
-meteor shower? (nah)
Things that happen:
-Helicopter crashes
into the road and breaks the mechanism holding panels in place and creating
guard rails…guard rails disappear
-Walls explode and
open a new track through a lab where tanks fall and crush you. (The next lap
there will be a speed reducing fluid left over from the tanks)
-The hall with the
escape pods breaks apart and you have to jump from section to section on the
track.
-Each lap around will
change the track by opening new paths and blocking others.
Things I want:
-Ashtar and other propaganda billboards. (they can fall and make ramps!)
-The racetrack will be above the city on transparent paneling.
-Midday setting.
These are a few color schemes I am thinking about. I know that I want to do a painting and combine a few of the Hubble telescope images for my skybox, and depending on what I come up with for that I will pick a color pattern that compliments it.
I know that I want a lot of contrast with very light color set against near black shades.
Drawings
These are a few sketches I did a week ago. They aren't very good but I figured I would throw them up.
This is my idea for my track. Of course this is the whole track. I want the player to start in the dome on a transparent road above/through the city where I plan to have a lot of billboards with propaganda on them.
So at one point in the level I am going to have a helicopter crashing into the mechanism that creates/controls the guardrails (they are like holograms). I'm going to figure out the design for that soon.
This is the last stunt before the track repeats. The track has broken apart and you are in space and have to hop from piece to piece, get onto the large ramp and bust through the front of a glass building and back onto the road.
