Wytze van Balkom Blog: oktober 2014

Game character

Real name: Ana Rodríguez

Age: 32

Callsign: As de picas (Ace of Spades)

Time period: alternative current time

skills: Elite marksman, survival expert

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Background:

Ana grew up in a small Colombian village deep inside the jungle, here she learned how to survive from her uncle an old soldier. At the age of 9 she was lured into the drug cartels who used the village as a base of operations and when they killed her mother, father and uncle she ran away and found her way into America where she became an elite marksman for a mercenary black-ops team called the Wildcards.

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Important Features:

· A muscular body, dark suntanned skin and short black hair

· custom army equipment

· A modified Barrett M107 sniper rifle and a custom AMT Hardballer Colt M1911 sidearm with silencer

· brown intense eyes, piercing towards her target

· custom and lightweight camo cloak and features on her equipment

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Initial Idea:

I decided to make a character that appeared physically powerful but graceful and could hold her own. My goal was to have lots of different influences in the character because most soldiers generally look boring or just ridiculous in lots of games, so I wanted a character to not be boring but had character and a convincing realistic look.

The initial idea was to make a character wearing pretty normal army clothes but with changes to avoid the norm and make her more of an individual. The ability to kill someone from great distances or close by undetected in a particular setting required some custom equipment so I began researching different weapons, camouflage, used by different military branches.

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Character Profile:

Some basic questions that will help the design, all of these can be adjusted later on during this project.

Q: Target audience and medium?
A: The character is part of a mature action first person shooter game, in which you play as a soldier on different missions as a new member of a elite mercenary black-ops team.

Q: Who is your character? Is he/she important? Good or bad? Profession? Background?
A: The character is one of 4 members of the team the player is in.

Q: What kind of world does he/she live in?
A: The world resembles an alternative war based representation of current time. Evil warlord, drug cartels, corrupted politicians are slowly taking over the world.

Q: Any special abilities?
A: She's an elite marksman specialist in sniping and both far and close range assassinations , expert survivalist in almost any environment but especially jungle and forest areas.

Q: What drives your character? Goals? Objectives?
A: The character is part of the team and holds a grudge against "bad" men especially drug cartels due to her past.

Q: What attributes does he/she use? Weaponry? Tools? What does he/she need those attributes for?
A: She fashioned a custom equipment load out for herself using whatever she could use from the army. Her weapons are a modified Barrett M107 for longrange sniping and a custom AMT Hardballer Colt M1911 sidearm with silencer for close silent kills. She also wears a small combat knife, radio, ammo, water bag inside the back of her tactical vest and distinct ghillie camo cloak and pants.

Q: Does he/she have relatives/companions?
A: The other members of the team she and the player are in.

Diamond King: He's the commander of the team, hard, short to the point, but fair. He's the one who always has a plan. (close combat specialist, leader)

Jack of hearts: He's the field medic and support member of the team, don't let his smile and al around good nature fool you he can be tougher than a brick wall. (medic, heavy firepower support)

Joker: this would be the player who has no real defined role on the team yet since every player has a different style but he is considered the new promising rookie of the team.( anything ?)

Ace of spades: She's a silent but deadly type, she is the long range support on most missions (survival expert, sniper)

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