Theme and Concept Statement for Board Game

Theme and Concept Statement for Board Game

Concept: Release, destroy or survive, it’s your choice!

        My game theme is,  “A Monster is trapped, and the explorers job is to release him without being caught by the protector! “ In “Trapped” players have the option to play as either a protector who is ahead of the monster protection program, and he makes certain that this monster does not leave his cage. Or players can play as an explorer who has found this monster and wants to release him so he can do further studies. The future relies on these three characters, the monster, protector, and explorer. What will happen, and who will change the world?

       “Trapped” is set in the future and is in a futuristic forest. Everything started when this monster was first found and the monster protection program decided to keep the monster hidden in a forest, and lock him in a cage. They then assigned him a protector that watches over him and keeps him safe from anyone and anything. Then an explorer came around and found this monster, he made it his goal to release the monster. He wanted to further his studies and learn about this monster.

      Since I am going for a futuristic look for my game, I found some reference pictures that I think relate very well to my concept. 

This first image is from an art of Halo book, and it has nice colors and I really enjoy the environment. I feel like mixing this with a few other ideas can help make my futuristic forest believable. 

This image is from a Star Wars book, and I really like the colors and it looks futuristic to me. The cage that my monster is going to be in. I would possibly include lights and I think blue lights would look good. 

This photo is from the art of Halo book also, and again I really enjoy the colors and would like to make my board game similar to this kind of look. 

This image is from the art of Halo book also, I like this sketch and I feel like it's a good reference for when I start constructing my board. I really like the idea of how they have the a path leading out to the middle. I was thinking maybe I could incorporate that into my board game. 

This is another image from the art of Halo book, and this image looks very futuristic also. I think the overall look and color scheme is nice.

This image is from the Lilo and Stitch art book, I feel like this image is a good reference for my monster. 

This is my last reference image, overall I found this to be an awesome reference, it shows exactly how I want some of the aspects of my game to look. I really enjoy the colors in this picture and how everything is placed in the composition. 

Lastly is my color scheme, I want it to look futuristic yet not to distracting. I picked some colors that I think coordinate well and will look good overall. I want to include these colors in my board game and the pieces.