Freak Show

I've made a lot of progress on my final. This past weekend I took a trip to Coney Island to get a feel for the whole aesthetic that I am striving to achieve. It was pretty eerie seeing Coney Island during the winter time. The whole place was abandoned, and it was getting dark. After my trip, I went on www.flickr.com and found a bunch of really good photos from the Coney Island Sideshow.

I also began designing my character selection screen, as you can see in the image above. I've determined who my three freaks are going to be, and began to lay out facts about their backgrounds and their lives.

Inked Inga-
1. She got her first tattoo at the age of 6. It was a ___(TBD)____.
2. Currently she has 371 tattoos covering her whole body.
3. While pregnant her heroin-addicted mother accidentally injected a tattoo needle into her vein.

The Amazing Gorilla Man-
1. He was born with a coat of black hair covering his whole body.
2. In his high school yearbook he was voted "most likely to discover a cure for baldness."
3. In his youth he once attempted to shave his whole body, but he spent the next week with a hellish case of itchy stubble.

Lobster Claw Larry-
1. He was born with deformed hands that strikingly resembled lobster claws.
2. His deformity was exploited since an early age, he was a child star on multiple sit-coms including: ___(TBD)___, & ___(TBD)___.
3. Ironically, he is allergic to shellfish.

These facts are subject to change, but I am currently working on their backstories, and random facts about these tragic yet intriguing characters. I chose these characters because they will each have an interesting hand (which will be the only part of them that you see in the game, besides on the character selection screen.

I've also completed the code for the database portion of my Rock Paper Scissors game. While it is not designed to fit the style yet, it is fully functional as a database. Here's the link to it: Test Freak Database The concept behind the database will be that if you lose, you are forced to submit something about yourself to the "Freak Selection Committee".

I am continuing to design my characters, the interface, and the stories surrounding the characters.