Monday, September 5, 2011

Before designing the characters

Every character in Ravenous has a background story to establish who they are and develop their place within the story. I start off with some simple questions like:
Name and age?
Where are they from?
How do they earn a living?
What should they look like?

Nothing of this is final and the characters change as the story gets fleshed out for example: 
Dr. Wallstonecraft was originally and old father figure yet he evolved into a younger version to better suit the story.  This being a game the story itself isn't set in stone since things need to serve a purpose and users need certain level of control as to how and when events take place.