The Fall semester has begun, and so has development for this semester’s gaming project. This semester, the focus is on 2-D games, rather than 3-D, which is the focus in Spring. My partner, Riley Cordova, and I have started brainstorming, and thus far were wanting to create your good, old fashioned brain eating zombie bang-bang shoot’em up, but with a wild west/steampunk twist. Characters in a post-apocolyptic world fight off zombies (the products of a mad scientist) with turn of the century technology. So a cool vehicle could be an antique car modified into a small tank with a turret on top, for example. A good rule of thumb for envisioning steampunk, is finding a method of creating technology that performs the same tasks as modern technology (robots, tanks, ATVs, machine guns, planes) using only the technology and materials available form the turn of the century era.
Wikipedia has a good article on Steampunk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
Well thats what we have so far, and were going to be fleshing it out over the duration of the semester, till we have a completed product before Christmas.
Heres a sketch I did, trying to get some ideas for a main character:
