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Spirit Tsung
An Open World, Polynesian Adventure
NUA Games Art and Design 2013. All rights reserved.
Morgan Baxter. 26th November 2013.
Sam Betlem. 26th November 2013.
Elliot Burton. 26th November 2013.
Ollie Brown. 26th November 2013.

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Table of Contents
INDEX
CONTENTS
Table of Contents........................................................................................................... 2
Index.................................................................................................................................. 2
Contents............................................................................................................................ 2
Mood Boards...................................................................................................................... 4
Game Overview................................................................................................................. 6
Game Concept............................................................................................................... 6
Feature Set..................................................................................................................... 6
Genre............................................................................................................................. 6
Target Audience............................................................................................................. 6
Game Flow Summary..................................................................................................... 6
Look and Feel................................................................................................................. 7
Project Scope................................................................................................................. 7
Gameplay and Mechanics.................................................................................................. 8
Gameplay....................................................................................................................... 8
Objectives...................................................................................................................... 8
Mechanics...................................................................................................................... 9
Screen Flow.................................................................................................................. 10
Replaying and Saving................................................................................................... 11
Story, Setting and Characters.......................................................................................... 11
Story and Narrative...................................................................................................... 11
Game World................................................................................................................. 11
Main Characters........................................................................................................... 12
Character #1............................................................................................................... 12
Character #2................................................................................................................ 13

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Interface.......................................................................................................................... 14
Visual System............................................................................................................... 14
Artificial Intelligence........................................................................................................ 15
Enemy AI...................................................................................................................... 15
Technical......................................................................................................................... 16
Target Hardware.......................................................................................................... 16
Development hardware and software..........................................................................16
Game Engine................................................................................................................ 17
Scripting Language...................................................................................................... 17

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MOOD BOARDS

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GAME OVERVIEW

Game Concept
An open world adventure where a spirit inhabits an artifact, you play as a witch
doctor that died and his spirit remains dormant in the religious flute of his tribe. This
will see the spirit take on adventures.

Feature Set
An open, non-linear world which the player can interact with, going between certain
islands and environments within the game, the games main islands are:
- Boa Boa
- Tahiti
- Moorea
- Tahaa
- Tetiaroa

Genre
Open World
Adventure
Non-Linear
Puzzle

Interactive
Role Playing Game
Tactical
Strategy

Target Audience
We plan to aim this game for both males and females of the age of 12 and up with
interests in history, Polynesian myth and the growth of European empires.

Game Flow Summary

The player is able to switch between two realities, the first being the Physical world
and the Spirit World.
In these worlds some of the gameplay styles will include
Physical World
Spirit World
Play as the Flute
Play as the Witch Doctor
Playing music to get through puzzles
Use of spells and witch doctor
powers
Moving and interacting with the world
Main combat area
Possession of those who play the flute
Interaction with the spirit world
Interaction with the other religious idols
communing with various spirits,

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missions and enemies

Look and Feel

The visuals of this game are manly very artistic with a cartoon/anime like feel, With
soft edges and bright vibrant colors which helps keep the style of gameplay we are
going for with the adventure theme a lot like The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker.

Project Scope
A summary of the scope of the game.
Number of Locations

Boa Boa
Tahiti
Moorea
Tahaa
Tetiaroa
Number of Worlds

Physical World
Spirit World

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GAMEPLAY AND MECHANICS

Gameplay

Game Progression

The player takes control of a witch doctors spirit who died defending the village, his
remains dormant in the religious flute, The player then has to use both worlds
(Physical and spiritual) and explore the islands and find various spirits to gain new
songs to gain further abilities to pass throughout the world and try to find a way to
save his tribe.
Puzzle Structure

Puzzles will be an active part of the game whether this being for abilities to find
hidden areas or to just get past certain parts of the story line. This will scale
throughout the game.

Objectives
To eventually be able to save your tribe from being imprisoned

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Mechanics
Physics

The Physics in both worlds are both normal

Movement

The general movements of the game are similar to that of a common 3 rd

person game.
General Movement

Right Joystick: Movement

Left Joystick: Camera Control
Directional Pad: Form Changes
Left Trigger: Jump
Right Trigger: Become inanimate
Other Movement

Play Note 01:

Play Note 02:
Play Note 03:
Play Note 04:
Play Note 05:
Interact: A

X or Square
B or Circle
Y or Triangle
Right Bumper
Left Bumper

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L Trigger: Jump
Joystick: Movement
Click: Spirit World View

R1: Note 5
Back: Map

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R
Trigger:
Become
Inanimate
Y: Note
R1: Note
4 3
Start: Menu

B: Note 2

Y: Note 3
X: B:
Note
1 2
Note

DPad: Form Changes

A: Interact

X: Note 1
A: Interact

Menus

Menu: Start
Map: Start or Select

R Joystick: Camera Control

Combat

The spiritual world is where the main combat exists as you are mainly
defending off other
spirits to protect others in the physical world.

Screen Flow
Main Menu Flow:

In-Game Pause Menu:

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Replaying and Saving

The replay within the game is that of any open world game, as you will
normally always find new things youve never interacted with/seen before and can
always have multiple save points to replay your favorite sections.

STORY, SETTING AND CHARACTERS

Story and Narrative

Specific details like scripts and cut scenes may not be in this document but be in the
story bible
Back story
You as the player, are the spirit of a dead witch doctor, who died
defending the village, his spirit remains dormant in the religious flute, There is
another witch doctor from another tribe whom killed the main witch doctor dies and
his soul is also inhabits an object, instead of a flute its a dagger.
Plot Elements
The tribe of the main witch doctor gets captured by European colonials
and the witch doctors as the flute/spirit needs to find a way to help his tribe.

Game World
The game world is based upon typical Polynesian islands. There are many islands
within the game and so this will cause different tribes to have different culture,
religion, beliefs and way of survival which will be impacted by different
environments. The colonials from Europe have an impact throughout the game
world, and will be having more of an impact on the game world further into the
game.

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Main Characters
Within the game we have a couple of characters that stand out during the game for
various reasons.

Character #1
Witch Doctor Tsung (Flute Form)
Back Storyboard

The Witch Doctor was respected within his tribe until he got killed by an
enemy tribes
witch doctor, because of this the witch doctors spirit infused
with a flute and thus the witch
Doctor lives on.
Looks

The flute itself is made to look like a flute from Polynesian culture however
instead
of the holes for fingers to cover the flute could grow legs to
move around, the flutes from
Polynesian culture are very detailed thus
making the object look like it has personality.
Physical Characteristics
Highly Detailed Wooden Case
Animations

Walking
Special Abilities

Being able to perform songs which are abilities

Relevance to game story

The Flute is one of the main parts of the story.

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Relationship to other characters

The Flute is connected to both the Witch Doctor and his tribe.

Character #2
Evil Witch Doctor

(Dagger form)

Back Storyboard

The Evil witch doctor sought jealousy over the other tribes that populated near
his tribe as well as feeling inferior to the other witch doctor the only way he
felt he could do something about him; he sought out the death of the other
witch doctor stabbing him with the same knife he now possesses.
Look

The Knife again

value
to
it,
again
theme,
knife would look a bit
damaged to show its
Physical
Rugged
Knife

contains
historical
sticking to Polynesian
however
the
more
dark
and
evil side
Characteristics
(repaired)

Animations

Not Applicable
Special Abilities
Not Applicable
Relevance
to game
This witch doctor
other witch doctor is

story
is the
dead.

Relationship

characters

to

other

Sworn Enemys

reason

the

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INTERFACE

Visual System
HUD

Within the heads up display you will be able to see

-Map
-Time of Day
-Objects (carrying)
Rendering System
The rendering of this game will be running at 60FPS, with no filters.
Camera

The camera will be moveable however will be able to rotate around the
player.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Enemy AI
The enemy AI will be based upon two situations the first being what difficulty chosen
at the start of the game and how far you progress into the game.

Support AI
The supporting AI consists of AI following you around for certain quests being able to
assist you as well as possession.
Player and Collision Detection

We would like to make it impossible to move through objects/players

without the right song for the flute; however the right flute could make you invisible.

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TECHNICAL

Target Hardware
Next Gen Consoles.
Component:
CPU:
GPU:
RAM:

PS4
8-Core 1.6Ghz
AMD 800Mhz
8GB GDDR5

Xbox One
8 Core 1.75Ghz
Custom
8GB DDR4

Development hardware and software

Some of the programs to be used are

-Photoshop
-Autodesk Maya
-CryEngine

853Mhz

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-UDK
Game Engine
CryEngine / Unreal Development Kit.

Scripting Language
CryMono / UnReal Script

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