"Weekend Market" Concept by The EL

Diversifier list: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JTIF7ftId_1LB8OVT6xwXA31zN5WxwCa/view 

“Weekend Market” plan:

Narratively driven, top-down simulator type game thing

Overview:

• Selling goods to customer 
  • NPC customers would request items, player grabs item from shelves
  • Customer says a few narrative related words before departing
• Buying stuff online after day (non-essential)
  • Player returns to bedroom scene after working
  • Player is required to purchase stock for the next day with computer
    • Could play around with buying cosmetics/trinkets as well
  • Player interacts with bed to end the day
• Stock up in the morning
  • Player takes boxes to shelves and starts shift
• 3 day story plan
  • Player learns about the town and characters through conversation
  • Dream sequences maybe
  • some kind of disaster
    • Does not have to be shown, up to interpretation or revealed by newspaper type thing
• Market changes with the days (non-essential)
  • Day 1: Lemonade stand type thing
  • Day 2: Small shop
  • Day3: Full supermarket
• Seaside town setting (Anchorage or Seward Alaska)

Diversifiers: #1, #8(?), #11(?), #12(?), #13, #20

Inspiration: 

• Chef RPG
• Stardew Valley

Aesthetics/art direction:

• color pallets could change each day to match the feel

• Cool palettes:
  • https://lospec.com/palette-list/blessing
  • https://lospec.com/palette-list/paperback-2
  • https://lospec.com/palette-list/slso8
  • https://lospec.com/palette-list/midnight-ablaze <= lvoe this one
  • https://lospec.com/palette-list/orsage
  • https://lospec.com/palette-list/henge5
  • https://lospec.com/palette-list/odd-feeling
  • https://lospec.com/palette-list/dead-weight-8

Awful Drawing:

Workflow/plan I guess:

Concept:

1. Lotta Ideas, see what we can come up with
2. Create a design document (I’m doing that right now :D)
3. Critique Ideas and refine possible projects
4. Choose project
5. Concept art and mockup mechanics

Prototype:

1. Design and refine mechanics
2. Work out which essential and non-essential gameplay aspects we keep
3. Begin developing art and sound
4. Have a full mockup scene done

Production:

1. Finalize and implement art and sound
2. Finish all gameplay systems
3. Develop story
4. Work on cut content (if there’s extra time)

Release:

1. Visual and mechanical finishing touches
2. Finish any story-related sequences and scenes
3. Work on cut content (if there’s extra time)
4. Tie up loose ends