This post will outline my ideas that I created for my individual game project. It will discuss the process I undertook for developing my idea from just a brainstorming thought to a structured game with a story line, theme and mechanics.

The initial idea

The initial spark for my idea began in class when we took part in a class activity of writing down 5 random game ideas in 5 minutes. Along with a lot of complete nonsense that I wrote down such as Drama Llama and DJ doggo one of the ideas I wrote down was Sewer Rats. I liked this idea because it was about an animal that usually doesn’t get much good publicity in comparison to a unicorn, cat, dog, llama. It wasn’t like any game I have heard of before. I began to expand and think more deeply about the idea that I had written down…