Dr. Rivers, Winston and Sister Joy

There were three characters i didn't manage to focus on too much so sadly there is only their initial concept sketches. However, each character did receive a full biography.

Dr. Rivers was one of the first characters to be created but because our group simply saw him as the doctor and assumed his story was interesting enough, he was sidelined for the majority of the project. It was only when the end of our project was in sight that I realised how under-developed the character was. To counteract this I tried to give him a more interesting back story that showed that Rivers had a lot more history than a standard doctor.

Winston Cobblebottom

Regrettably, Winston Cobblebottom is the most under-developed character in the project. Due to disagreements on whether the character should even be in the game I was reluctant to work on him as i didn't find him very inspiring. Instead, Bas did some concept art for him and after that progress for Winston came to a halt. I did write him a biography and attempted to make the character somewhat interesting but i found it very hard to muster any interest in him. I would have preferred to have made Henry Van Herk a playable character for two reasons: because I felt Henry was a much more dynamic and interesting character and also because it would balance the age of the playable characters, since three of the four male characters are over the age of thirty. However, as time was running out Winston was allowed to stay, although if the project were to have continued, I would have liked to have scrapped the character entirely.

Sister Joy

Sister Joy was a very late entry to the character roster, being created after the simple idea of a nun with a gun which we all thought sounded cool, and since our whole project was conceived from a 'cool idea', she was added to the game and replaced the rather dull character of Adelaide Davenport, the grandmother of Odette and Edward. Adelaide is still a character, but a background character that is unseen and only referred to in the game as she is the Davenport grandmother that lives in a different city to the rest of her family. I would have loved to have thought up Sister Joy at an earlier stage as i think she had a lot of potential and could have been one of the most iconic characters. But sadly poor timing meant that Sister Joy was never to be as developed as the majority of the characters.