Brainstorming

Yesterday I had my first meeting with one of the programmers that a group of animators and I will be working with for the next year. We sat down and had a very broad discussion about the game the programmers wanted to make and how we could help. They only had a very basic idea bout the game as they had only been working on it for a few days but it still gave us a lot to think about. We decided we should go away and brainstorm as many ideas and influences as we possibly could and then narrow down ideas out of this. So this is the first of what will be many brainstorming and ideas posts.

The basic idea we were given for the game was that it was to be a first or third person shooter. In which you played one of a team of soldiers/freedom fighters/protagonists who were battling a secret society/evil corporation/government.

Instantly I got a very dystopian feel from this idea.

dystopia: is a futuristic society that has degreded into a repressive and controlled state.

The programmers had suggested a slightly futuristic setting but no lasers (so not high sci-fi) but to me a dystopian setting set 20/30 years into the future seemed like a good place to start. It also gave us a lot of choice when it came to deciding the nature of the antagonists, whether the controlling factor in the dystopia was a Government, an all powerful company, or a secret society. So I've been going through looking up dystopian films/ games and just generally brainstorming based on what has to be one of my favourite sci fi genres.