Video Game Concept

Dark Souls with Greek Mythology Character Concepts

Chaos

The personification of nothingness from which all of existence sprang

Arachne

Medusa

The Spider

The Gorgon

Artemis

Goddess of the hunt, wilderness, animals, the Moon and young girls.

Hecate

Goddess of witchcraft, magic, the Moon, doorways, and creatures of the night such as hell-hounds and ghosts.

Athena

Goddess of reason, wisdom, intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, battle strategy, and handicrafts.

Quick Lore:
The land of Greece has fallen into chaos after the death of Zeus, King of the Gods. Each of the gods begin to fall into madness from the twisting power of Hades, who has stolen the power of Zeus for himself. Some of the gods have weakened and went into hiding while others decide to work alongside Hades. A mortal hero is then chosen to fight for the gods, using their gifts to cut down enemies and create a clear path to Hades. Hades is a puppet of Chaos.


Lore Update:
The Siege of Olympus began with Hades stealing the power of Apollo, Artemis’s brother. Hades began to cut down gods and goddesses with the help of Nyx and Erebus. Upon their arrival into the Hephaestus’s forge, Aphrodite quickly defended her husband using two daggers that were a gift from Hephaestus.

Hephaestus was smart enough to know that if Olympus falls, he will no longer be able to forge and create weapons with god-like power, so he cast a sword forged of Zeus’s lightning to the Earth.

The remaining gods fled Olympus or joined forces with Hades.

Allies: Ally gods can assist the Hero in combat against bosses, you must choose which god to represent. Covenant/Boon mechanic, buffs for the player.

The gods that offer boons will be Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, and Hecate.


Buffs:

Aphrodite: Vitality buff (More Health and out of combat Healing)

Athena: Strength buff (on hit damage with melee weapons and shields)

Artemis: Ranged buff (more damage and accuracy with bows)

Hecate: Spell buff (spell and magic damage burns enemies upon hit)

Can summon your chosen god or goddess to assist in the boss battles.

Other gods that will be around to assist the Hero will be:

Hephaestus: Item and Weapon upgrading

Persephone: Hero level up

Hermes: Fast-travel option

Gaia: The goddesses who made the hide-away for the Hero and the gods.

Main Bosses will drop crucial story items and armor

1. Chaos: The personification of nothingness from which all of existence sprang. Final Boss

2. Hades: King of the Underworld and God of Wealth.

3. Nyx: Goddess of the Night.

4. Erebus: God of Darkness and Shadow

5. Poseidon: God of the Sea.

6. Thanatos: God of Death.

7. Ares: God of courage, war, bloodshed, and violence.

8. Cronus: Titan of harvests and personification of destructive time. The leader of the Titans, who overthrew his father Uranus only to be overthrown in turn by his son, Zeus. Not to be confused with Chronos.

9. Chiron: The ancient trainer of heroes such as Heracles.

Optional Bosses will drop items and various weapons for the hero.

1. Medusa: Turned to a gorgon by Athena.

2. Arachne: Turned into a spider by Athena.

3. Prometheus: Titan of forethought and crafty counsel, and creator of mankind.

4. Hypnos: God of Sleep

Mini bosses: Heroes, Various Characters:

These characters are friendly up to a few points in stories where they can then be found out in the map as enemies.

1. Achillies: Hero of the Trojan War

2. Perseus: son of Zeus and the founder-king of Mycenae.

3. Orpheus: a legendary musician and poet who attempted to retrieve his dead wife from the Underworld.

4. Medea: a sorceress and wife of Jason, who killed her own children to punish Jason for his infidelity.

5. Heracles/Hercules: ascended hero.

Music Inspiration

For my independent project I wanted to try my hand at creating characters for a video game. I wanted to focus on designing Greek Mythology type characters inspired by the game Dark Souls by FromSoftware. I want this game to mainly focus on big and challenging boss fighting and story.

My work for this project has been slow due to me always going back on designs when they are close to being finished. I have become pleased with my designs for Chaos, Arachne and Medusa so far but need a lot more time to flesh out other characters because I am just not pleased with them.

When I sat down to start designing this game, I really didn’t think it would be this much work so far, I am very tired but I recently have had a burst in creativity for this project so I hope to continue it in the future, and maybe even have a finished game down the line.

I am currently still working on lore and I started matte painting out environments but I am not pleased with their current look so I do not wish to show them yet.