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Character Idea breakdown

These are my initial ideas and notes for my 12 characters that will feature in my all female fighting game.

Themes:

Career Girls

Astronaut: 

Space 

Planets 

1967 (first trip to space)

United States/ Russia 

NASA 

1980s

Cowgirl:

Wild West

1865-1900

America

Horses

Guns

Rodeo

Annie Oakley

DJ:

Music

Accidentally invented in 1930s

EDM

Rave Culture

First DJ dance party held in England

Turntable invented in jamaica

Idol:

South Korean 

K-pop 

Black Pink 

Aespa

Pirate:

1500s - 1830s

Caribbean 

Eye patch 

Ching Shih (pirate Queen)

Fantasy Girls

Gecko: Crested Gecko

New Caledonia 

Eye lash gecko

Eats Fruits 

Habitats are forests that are humid or costal forest 

Mythology Girls

Cleopatra:

Queen of the Ptolemaic Egypt 

51 - 30 BC 

Athena:

Daughter of Zeus 

Goddess of War

Creator of spiders 

She created Medusa 

Owl as a symbol

Artemis:

Daughter of Zeus 

Goddess of Hunting and Nature 

Twin to Apollo 

Moon and Night 

Deer Symbol

Joan of Arc:

French

A Knight 

A bad temper 

1400s

Burned at the stake for being a Witch

Bob haircut

Sekhmet:

Daughter of Sun God Ra 

Warrior Goddess 

Lioness

Enjoyed the taste of blood

She spread disease if she was in a bad mood

Hua Mulan:

She takes her fathers place in the army

Practiced Kung fu and trained with a sword 

Fighting styles:

All of the characters will use a mixture of the 16 different types of martial arts fighting styles 

Astronaut: Jeet Kune Do

Cowgirl: Karate

DJ: Capoeira

Idol: Taekwondo

Pirate: Krav Maga

Gecko: Wing Chun 

Cleopatra: Tai Chi 

Athena: Muay Thai

Artemis: Aikido 

Joan of Arc: Kick Boxing 

Sekhmet: Hapkido

Hua Mulan: Kung Fu

Special Moves:

Each of the characters will have a special move that they can do once the player hits the right combination of buttons. The special move will be enabled after your character is charged up enough. They will get charged up through points they gain when successfully completing normal combination attacks. The special move will do a high level of damage. 

Weapons: 

Each characters special moves will involve a weapon that will only appear during the special move. The rest of the game play will simply be hand to hand combat. 

Astronaut: Missiles

Cowgirl: Lasso 

DJ: Vinyls

Idol: Lightstick

Pirate: Cutlass

Gecko: Tail 

Cleopatra: Dagger (fan?) 

Athena: Spear

Artemis: Bow and Arrow

Joan of Arc: Canon

Sekhmet: Arrows

Hua Mulan: Halberd

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Ideas for characters

Some concept ideas for characters I want to create:

Alien/ Astronaut

Cowgirl

Dancer

DJ

Robot

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Books I have read

To get a better idea of how I will create and present my final work, I picked up a few concept art books to look into.

To start I look at The Art Of Monsters Inc. This book goes through the many years it took to create the Disney and Pixar film Monsters Inc. It shows the different iterations of the characters, the overall aesthetics of the world as well as the specific sets and locations. It really helped me to get a better understanding of what I will need to do when coming up with my game as well as how to present the final collection of art.

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Music - XG "GRL GVNG"

To gather more ideas I wanted to look into music that may inspire me. My main goal was to just find songs or instrumentals that I felt fit the vibe of my game or that I could imagine playing during the game. Once I found a song, I looked into the music video and imagery that was released alongside the song to further my inspiration.

To start I have XG "GRL GVNG"

(Music Video Screenshots)

Promotional Images

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Existing Female Characters

I wanted to look at existing characters to get some better ideas of where I wanted to go with my designs. These are only a few examples however it was very clear through my research that a majority of female characters wore revealing clothes or skin tight clothes. Personally, I don't think this is too much of a problem as it's okay for women to dress this way and that is something I would like to explore in my game, however, I would be interesting to see more of a variety with female characters in the future. For example, there could be more characters that are fully dressed like the character Lili from the game Tekken that you can see above. The way the characters are currently dressed becomes a problem when you start to look into the reasoning behind these choices. The biggest global fighting games that are around at the moment, that being, Mortal Kombat, Tekken and Street Fighter are all made by men with a male target audience in mind. There are very few female characters in these games and when there is one they are dressed for the male gaze which sexualises and objectifies women.

Another thing to note is the overall lack of diversity. All of the characters are either white or asian, they all have slim body types and straight hair. For my designs, it would be interesting to try and create a wider selection of woman then is currently seen in todays media.

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Aesthetics

To start I wanted to gather lots of images for inspiration. I really want a strong idea of aesthetics to start myself off as I would like my game to stand out in terms of the look and vibes.

This is what I have so far. I like the bright colours and the ideas of lots of love hearts and overall feminine and girly symbols.

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University Final Major Project

Hello, I am Llowllowii

I am in my final year of university studying illustration and for my final major project, I would like to design concepts for a fighting game that features an all female cast. My main aim with this game is to design a game that mainly targets female players and can display that a strong female character doesn't have to be the stereotype that we are always told about.

The final product will either be a concept art book or website. So far I am only certain that I will design characters, backgrounds, graphics and promotional material however this may change. Please join me through my process of designing this game!