Group Concept Interrogation

• Name: Heather
• Concept synopsis: Girl raises fish from dead. Hilarity ensues.
• Project type: Story-based animation
• Next steps:
  • Develop idea more thoroughly.
  • Interpret ideas / criticism.
  • Pairdown the brainstorm
  • add more zombies.

• Questions:

  • How does it conclude?
  • How does the fish die?
  • Is it a fish? Something else?
  • Is there a moral?
  • Mother? Is she a witch? Hopped up on anti-depressents? Stoned?
  • Is mother depressed? Stressed?
  • How is mother negligent?
  • What does fish want? Why kill mother? To thank girl for raising it? Is it angry for being raised from fishy heavens?
  • Why does girl raise fish from dead?
  • How does she raise fish from dead?
  • Does fish grow in power? Mutate?
  • Does mother turn to zombie? Happy ending? Funny ending? Sad ending? Shocking ending?
  • is there a cat in this animation?
  • What is the meaning of life?

• Name: Sebastian

• Concept synopsis: Man is in supermarket and stalked by crazy killer for his pimple.
• Project type: Story/random violence based animation.
• Next steps:
  • Work out solid structure to hold it all together.

• Questions:

  
  
  • How will structure work?
  • Why does guy have massive pimple?
  • Why does psychopath care about pimple?
  • How do the supermarket staff react to their co-workers deaths?
  • Do they even notice?
  • What specific people does the psychopath kill in order to spy on guy?
  • What’s with the cutaways of puppies, anyway?
  • Why is the guy content with the pimple?
  • Does he know he has a massive pimple?

• Name: Sebastian

• Concept synopsis: Employee video goes wrong when the idea employee breaks down and kills.
• Project type: Story/random violence based animation.
• Next steps:
  • Break down causes?
  • Look into your heart and see if you could be bothered animating car driving and good handshake form.
  
  

• Questions:

  
  
  • How long is the buildup going to go for?
  • How will you handle it?
  • What elements of being a good employee will you show?
  • What exactly does he do when he freaks out?
  • Why does he react the way he does to his wife’s death?
  • Is it his wife’s death or something that makes him freak out?
  • How long is the freakout part going to be?
  • How do you handle the narrator?
  • How do you handle the breaking of the 4-th wall/killing of narrator?
  • Why does he kill narrator, anyway?
  
  



• Name: Isaac



• Concept synopsis: Build machines! Use the physics engine and parts to create battle devices.
• Project type: Flash Game
• Next steps:
  
  • Work out how to make AI.
  • Work out metagame / strategy game.
  • Interface design,
  • tied with overworld.
  • economy design
  • list of parts!
  
  
• Questions:
  
  
  • How does interface work?
  • How does it tie into world game?
  • Game world? Seamless world/two games?
  • Story? Is there one? How does the world work?
  • Strategy game on map? Mission-based?
  • Does player have avatar? Or just behind a mouse cursor?
  • Is player part of world, or god?
  • Gravity - does anybody need it?
  • Setting/time period?
  • Does terrain effect game? Is it deformable like everything else?
  • Enemy? Intelligent? Do they have machines as well? Are the monsters? Little men?
  • Linear story?
  • Is world linear? Or freeform.
  • Physical puzzles as well?
  • Conlusion: You need one right?
  • Will I add a sandbox mode? Random battle type thing?
  • How will you give player drive/motivation?