Proposal

Client Needs
I have joined a team at Rockstar Games and my first task is to provide my ideas for
the sprite graphics, concept art and the game packing for a new game.

Overview and Genre

Assassins Creed Empire is an open-world, action-adventure RPG
game. The game is a franchised IP from the Assassins Creed video
game series. Throughout the game you will play as a single
avatar progressing through a storyline. The player can also
travel around the open-world and complete side missions and
picking up collectibles to unlock in-game content.

Audience
Looking at previous Assassins Creed installments I can see that the gaming
audience that bought them were both genders aged 18 and over, this is because of
the age restriction on the Assassins Creed games with there being violence. The
storylines throughout the Assassins Creed series have always had a deep emotional
feeling to them and that is why they are popular with both genders and most ages.

Market Research
Age:
As the video games industry is a worldwide industry means that to further
companies sales they would have to make games that appeal to all different ages
as then more people would buy games. Over the years games have adapted to
different age groups and restrictions. PEGI is the European video game content
rating system. PEGI has five age categories.

3: Suitable for all ages. May contain very mild violence in an appropriate
context for younger children, but neither bad language nor frightening
content is allowed.
 7: Suitable for ages 7 and older. May contain mild or unrealistic violence (e.g.
violence in a cartoon context), or elements that can be frightening to younger
children.

12: Suitable for ages 12 and older. May contain violence in either a fantasy
context or a sporting action, profanity, mild sexual references or innuendo, or
gambling.

16: Suitable for ages 16 and older. May contain explicit or realistic-looking
violence, strong language, sexual references or content, gambling, or
encouragement of drug use.

18: Unsuitable for persons under 18. May contain extreme or graphic
violence, including "violence towards defenseless people" and "multiple,
motiveless killing", strong language, strong sexual content, gambling, drug
glamorisation, or discrimination ("stereotyping likely to cause hatred").

Having to stick to these

ratings whilst trying to
produce a good game can be
hard as most of the age
restricted content is the
content that actually sells in
video games.

Gender:
Both males and females play video games. Through gender stereotyping it makes it
seem that males play video games more prominently than women, when
in fact both genders play video games equally as it depends on
the persons mind set whether they like to play video
games or not. Making a game appeal to a certain
gender may seem easy as people may say you could
make a video game appeal to a girl by making the
game all pink and flowery. But this may cause
controversy in gaming communities that a certain games
developer wasnt considering the ethics of the game and that
people may find it offensive that they chose to put flowers into a female
based game.

Objectives
The objectives within my game will be to initially play through the main story
missions and complete all mini challenges within them. Once the player has played
 through the missions they can then go off into
the open world to pick up collectibles and
complete other challenges like races and bounty
hunts. If the player fails to complete the mini
challenges within a mission they can go back to
that particular mission, replay it and complete
the challenge.

Structure
Assassins Creed Empire will have a complex structure. To see this structure in more
detail, see attached copy of structure diagram.

Features
Assassins
Creed
Empire
features a
new setting;
Empire is set
in Ancient
Egypt during
Ramses IIs reign over the 19th dynasty. A new system for detecting the environment
around players will allow them to use walls and other in-game structures as tools for
dismantling hostiles. Those that prefer sneaking around will have a much easier
time as well, with increased options at their disposal for stealth takedowns. Barrels
hanging precariously over an enemy? Bring it down on them. Guards huddling
around a fire? Shoot a berserk dart into the flames and watch those around the
blaze begin to attack one another as they inhale the fumes.

Characters
Empires story line will be based around a new set of characters. There will be 3
main characters within the game, these characters are;
 Ammon: Ammon is a slave that has escaped captivity from
Ramses II. Throughout the story he will join the Assassin
brotherhood with the help of mentor Zane and overcome the
hold Ramses II has on Egypt.

Zane: Zane has been part of the Assassin brotherhood since

he was a young boy. Overtime the brotherhood has
deteriorated within Egypt but with the help of Ammon, his
assassin trainee, the brotherhood may be reborn again.

Ramses II: Ramses He was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the

19th dynasty. He was also regarded as the most powerful
pharaoh of the Egyptian empire. Ramses is part of the Templar
Order and is the main antagonist throughout the storyline of
Assassins Creed Empire.
The graphics I will be creating are; an A3 poster, a game cover, a character and a
HUD or background graphic.
In my poster I will include a graphic themed from my game, the title of the game
and logo, the date of release and the age rating.
On my game cover I will need to at least show the title and logo of my game,
information about the game (on the back) and the age rating.

Mechanics
The controls of Empire will be exactly the same as previous Assassins Creed games
as if I were to change the controls the audience may not like the change as they
may be used to the normal controls. To see the controls for Assassins Creed Empire,
see attached document.

Story
Ammon is a slave that has escaped captivity
from Ramses II. Throughout the story he will
join the Assassin brotherhood with the help of
mentor Zane and overcome the hold Ramses II
has on Egypt. Along his travels he meets a man
called Zane. Zane is part of the Assassin
Brotherhood, during the story he becomes
Ammons mentor. Ammon and Zane go through
the story dismantling the Templar Order that
resides over Egypt because of Ramses IIs rule.
Theme
The theme of my game is to play through the story and side missions and to initially
reach %100 synchronisation by collecting and completing everything within the
game. Depending on the console, the player can also get trophies or achievements
to add to their public collection for other players to see.