Logan's Game Design Blog: Early Years

Original Stain I found this stain in my dorm common room and immediately saw it as a sentient rollerblade type creature with only one wheel. Sketch and Action Pose For my sketch, I simply drew an oval and added a wheel to it. Once I had done that I looked at the stain a bit more and realized there was a bit of a dip on the far right side of it. I figured that I could turn this into a turbo booster for him to travel faster. This idea led to my action pose of him zooming around. When it comes to animation, I believe this animation would have very little frames. You would simply need to change the facial expression and make the fire coming out of his booster change between two sprites. I feel that my character is easy to identify via silhouette because it has a very unique shape. 

  Stereotypes      Fetz has some stereotypical things about him. Hoodies can be related to shady individuals. There is a reason that gas stations require people who wear hoodies to keep the hoods down. Another stereotype could be that he is a snake, who is also a metaphorical snake. He lies and manipulates others to get what he wants.       Fetz also has some qualities that defy stereotypes. He isn't human, a lot of games main character are humans. The main character is a villain, many games' main character are heroes in their own stories. Fetz knows that he isn't meant to be a hero, he finds joy in the suffering of others.       "However, he also cautioned against defining characters by trauma or oppression" (Allen 2017) If I were to continue to make this game, I would try to avoid this stereotype. I would not want Fetz to feel that he is a villain because of trauma, I want him to be a villain because he wa...