Game Character
by Elliot Yee
Project Brief
This project required me to identify the genre of a videogame and create a character that suited that genre.
I’ve always been a big fan of the “mascot platformer” genre of videogames (i.e. Banjo—Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon, Kirby, Conker’s Bad Fur Day) so it made sense to create my own mascot character.
Specifically, I wanted to create characters for a buddy mascot game — games where two protagonists operate as a single character (Such as Banjo—Kazooie, Yooka—Laylee, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank).
My Design
The first step in creating my character was to choose a character for it’s base. I chose Banjo/Kazooie, Yooka/Laylee and Crash Bandicoot as each of these characters had elements I wanted to use for my design.
I then chose two rarely used animals as my protagonists to help them stand out from the rest — an aardvark and a hoop snake. I named them Gad and Zooks so that their names together would make the existing word GadZooks.
