Artifact 1, Concept Bat
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Avatar Bat- concept
I am now going to write about the first artifact I have been working on during our game design class where we are creating a game from another groups design document from the previous game design course. I have been working on our avatar for our game we will create“Heartbeat Bat”. My first artifact I got to work on is the concept for our character in heartbeat bat. The character is an bat which the player is controlling by flying. I started my work by sketching many different concept ideas of how the bat could be looking and I then showed my sketches to my group so they could help decide which one of the sketches they liked most. We decided to go for a cartoony look on the bat with big eyes and ears and a bit of doglike appearance.
Some of the sketches:
  I wanted to have an animated style of the bat, a little like on Pixar style animated movies. My group chose between different kinds of feeling expressed by the bat and we decided that we wanted a cute character that is most of the time a happy and kind of innocent bat that gets an eager expression on its face when the bat is speeding up to reach its goal, which is to get home as fast as possible. The faster the bat gets home the higher high score the player will get.After the group decided about the main visual feeling and style of the bat I started to sketch a front position and a side position of the bat aswell as wings in different angles and positions.
The sketches of our chosen bat style:
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