DevLog 00: The Journey Begins - Echoes Of Tomorrow

DevLog 00: The Journey Begins - Echoes Of Tomorrow

Welcome to our first dev log for survival extraxtion shooter Codenamed Echoes of Tomorrow

Kicking things off!

To start off we started to brainstorm potential game ideas that we found intersting and passionate about. Luckily we both have similar tastes in games and for this project we wanted to work something that we wanted to play. Below you can see a list of potential, gameplay mechanics, genres and themes we love.

Genres We like	Themes	Gameplay Ideas	Games We Like
Strategy	Sci-Fi	Sabotage/ Social Deduction	Crusader Kings
Turn-Based	Future Realism	Resource Gathering	Stellaris
Management	High Fantasy ( Lord Of the Rings)	Upgrading	Helldivers
Realtime	Low Fantasy (Game Of Thrones	Tech Trees	Halo
First Person Shooters	Medieval		Battlefield
Simulators	Post Apocolypse		Skyrim
Extraction Shooters	Zombies		Fallout
Survival	Vikings		Manor Lords
Choose your Own Adventure	Samurai/ Japanese		Total War
	Diesel Punk		Dungeons and Dragons
	Sci-fi Realism		Warhammer
	Cyberpunk		Civilisation
	The Expanse- Realistic Scifi
	WW2
	Alternate History
	Iron Harvest

Deciding on an idea

After a night of deliberation and discussing potential gameplay loops that focus on. We have recently been playing alot of Helldivers 2 and we was having quite fun with the extraction gameplay, mainly because of the high stakes risk and reward it entails and the rush you high intensity fights. We quite liked the idea of having a survival-based action game with a sci-fi realism theme. We were inspired by the work of Simon Stålenhag. His work is an amazing blend of post apocalypse and high tech, giving a good contrast.

Moving forward

To get started working on the project we created an unreal project and hosted it using PlasticSCM Version Control to help us collabortate between us and to allow for rapid testing,

We then created a basic To-Do List in excell to keep track of what needs to be working on next in prioty order.

Thank you for reading!

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