1. The Mantis Bot By Richard Thomas
My Final Major Project
The Mantis Bot
By Richard Thomas

2. My project is inspired
by Ratchet and Clank.
More specifically this
enemy from Ratchet
and Clank 2.

3. Audience My target audience will be teenagers.
Similar to the inspiration: Ratchet and Clank.
I will avoid adding mature themes such as gore.

4. Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Platform: Playstation 4

6. Design Document

7. Character A mass produced security robot.
They are allocated in small groups to defend important locations.
Acts as an enemy of the player.
Relies on it’s long claw arms and its strong legs to leap at the player and assault them.

8. World The setting is a heavily populated futuristic metropolis.
Robots are used to fill a huge variety of job roles.
People have become dependant on the service of these robots.
The corporations which mass produce these robots have a huge amount of control over the city.

13. Trends My character would be an enemy in a Sci-Fi action game.
Action games are one of the most popular game genres, ranking second in sales in the United States in 2015.
Sci-Fi is a popular genre with such recent titles as Fallout 4, Destiny and Halo 5.

14. Thank you for listening

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