Leaving the LPC work aside, the two other concepts I worked on for the FGP are as stated before an educational video game, and newly a set of poker cards designed with a Warhammer 40K theme in mind.

The concept of the game revolves around the idea of teaching player how to read kanji (Chinese characters used in Japan). The intention is to use already established gameplay mechanics of a turn based strategy game with role playing elements in combination with a system of command promts, which require the player to use their knowledge of kanji.

Exploration

Combat engagement

Prompt

Player input

Since the game is a project that requires fairly advanced programming skills, I plan on working on it in collaboration with a friend of mine, Tomáš Havlík, a student of CTU in Prague. Our work is clearly separated into coding on his part, creating all the visuals on my part, and is a combined effort in case of decision making in terms of mechanics, gameplay, narrative and such. The images above are his work that he made when we first discussed what kind of game we want to make.

Having a friend who’s a big fan of the Warhammer 40K universe and being one myself, I was inspired to desing a set of poker cards themed after four major factions of the W40K universe, and possibly present them to my fried as a gift once they are printed out.

The four major factions mentioned are all unique, which is very convinient as there are spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs each one could represent with clear distinction.

Left to right: Eldar, Chaos, Orks, Space Marines (not my work)

The idea was to use hearts for Eldar and spades for Space Marines with diamonds and clubs still undecided between Chaos and Orks.

Eldar Jack concept