Minor Project - Initial Planning and Influences

Find Twinkle Toes - Premise/Key Ideas:

• "Point and click" but with camera "player" movement around the room - meeting/discovering different animals and adding pages to your factfile/journal, on your quest to find the free-roaming Twink.
• The more you explore and learn the more the room environment changes, and becomes more overgrown/wild/tropical etc.  
• Cabinets and other furniture become vivariums, the bed becomes a turtle pool, plants spring out everywhere, floor changes.
• Time passes, and different animals come out as per their species specific day/night cycles. eg Stevie (leopard gecko) afternoon. You have to visit certain animals before you are able to "unlock" certain next ones.   
• You can explore the room before it changes, eg open cupboards, have small interactions, eg open the wardrobe and look at a shirt in the drawer, but come back later and now the wardrobe is a snake rack, different ball pythons in each drawer. 
• Latest stage room is more rainforest than room. 

Stylistic Influences

For the overall style I'm really drawn to the low poly almost faded/pastel look a lot of indie and iOS relaxation games are currently styled as. This is the similar market I want my project to fit into - a soothing and simple game designed to focus mainly on aesthetics and buildikng your collection/exploring and developing the world. A couple of key stylistic influences I have are Tap Tap Fish - Abyssrium, Viridi and Desertopia.

I'm particularly interested in the style of creatures in AbyssRium, how in essence they are really quite simple and blocky, but still instantly recognisable as to what creature they are. This whittled down design to clear simplicity is what I want to achieve in my own designs. To have a basic shape and add all the major defining details though textures. 

I'm also taking inspiration from real life resources and locations, where merging of natural and interior design is key. My main influences here are London's Rainforest Cafe, a favourite location for child-me, Ridgeway Exotics in Gosport, a personal favourite exotics shop that earlier in the year had a full-store redecorate and now looks amazing, filled with branches and fake vines to make you feel as if you're in a rainforest when in the store, and Naturospace Honfleur - a "garden zoo and butterfly house" in Normandy I had the pleasure of visiting in July and totally fell in love.