Back Story

Back Story

The story takes place in Himmapan Forest where all incredible things happen. The forest itself known as the link between the earth and heaven. There are imaginary creatures- half angel and animal or human. In the middle of the forest, there is a big beautiful tree giving special fruits in every a thousand years. When the fruites are ripe, they turn to very beautiful women called Nareepol who are desired by other creatures including the Garuda who is very strong. He has waited for the Nareepol for long so when it's time he wants to be the first one to pick her. However, there is the Naga who protects the Nareepol from the intruders. He has a very dangerous weapon, fire balls shooting from his mouth to the enermies. Normally, Naga and Garuda are the foes for a long time. They fight and take turn to win and lose. In this particular case regarding the Nareepol, the Naga has to shoot the Garuda with his fireballs.

The Target Audience: 12+ years old

Game Genre: Advengerous game

Platform: PC

Interaction Design

Naga: Shoot the fire ball to the Garuda. The Naga has 30 fire alls to shoot. He has to hit the target 10 time so that the Garuda die. The power scale of the Garuda decreases everytime he gets hit.

Garuda: He has to protect himself from the Naga's fire balls by moving around or uses his wings to protect himself. He also has to do the tricker by picking the Nareepol to earn the score.

Nareepol: There are 10 Nareepols in the magical tree. The Naga protects the Nareepols from the Garuda.

My Concept Art

SETTING

Himmapan Forest

Regarding Buddhism and some legends in Asian countries such as Thailand, HImmapan Foest is in the Himalaya Mountains. It is believed that the forest is located below Buddhist heaven and is invisible to human eyes. Only mythical creatures can live here.


MAIN CHARACTERS

Naga

Naga is the king of snakes. He has same father as Garuda but their mother are sisters, so they become enermies because of the conflict between their mothers. He usually lives underworld in the ocean depth.

Garuda

Garuda is the king of birds. He is half man and half bird. He is a foe of Naga, but both are very powerful so no one can defeat.

Nareepol

Nareepol is a woman fruit who is born from a megical tree in Himmapan Forest. The more she grows up, the more she is beautiful. Nareepol will come out of the fruit when she is rippen.

Concept Art Ideas and References

Conceptualization Spawning Imagination

After the lecture about Conceptualize Spawning Immagination in the Game Level class, I was thinking and brainstorming the ideas from what I experienced. Since I live the most of my life in Thailand where is full of rich cultures and prosperous heritages, plus my personal interest in literature, I have been inspired and fascinated by Thai arts, tales, poems, etc. especially the Myth about Himmapan forest and its mythical creatures that exist only in Asian legends.

Based on Buddhism, Himmapan Forest is located between the border of Himalayas Mountain and Nepal, in the middle of the Himalyas hill, which was cover by the ice. This place has different time and different people also animals. Normal people cannot live there because it is too cold. The place also reconised as the link between heaven earth. The time will be faster than our time, which is one day, is four hundreds years compare to our time. Only half angle half human such as nagas, garudas, human fruits live here.

I was also impressed by one of my favourite Himmapan creature; the human fruit or woman fruits. It is the woman who has everything similar to human, but wears different clothes and has gold skin. They are the most beautiful woman, which was happening by the magic of the” Inthairat”. When the fruit grow up will have beautiful body; but when it older, the fruit will get small and smaller eventually fall down to the floor.

I am thinking about creating a shooting game from this Myth and its cool creatures. I've never seen it appears in any games so it would be intersting to work on this idea.

References:

http://www.himmapan.com/