The Adventures of Tokk Project Report Raphael Leon 31 may 2014 | Page 3

from the golden age of gaming and this project will allow me to show just how
relevant these games can still be. My 8-bit platform game includes numerous
animated sprites in a pixel art world and demonstrates a platform charactercontrol system as well as well-scripted levels.
After university I plan to work for an independent games company such
as “Ravenous Games” in Canada or “Jagex” in Britain. These are both companies
that I have been in touch with over the last few months and are both expecting to
hear from me after university. The work I have produced for this project will give
me a firm footing at the beginning of my career and a portfolio of work that I am
confident to show to prospective employers. I have allowed myself the summer
to continue perfecting code languages and have booked a one-month course in
Soho to learn C sharp proficiently. I also want to get a developers licence for
Apple and for Android so that I am able to start putting my own GameMaker and
Unity3D games on the market. This will show employers that I am able to create
complete games in my own right as well as possibly giving myself some industry
recognition.
Concept
After reading the book “Kappa” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa I became
infatuated with Japanese folklore and felt that it would be the perfect vehicle for
a platform game. Knowing that I wanted to create a game I teamed up with a
talented modeller and later a competent draughtsman to design the level layout
as asset design. As the group’s director I organized meetings so that the group
could begin to discuss the look of the game. The art director, in charge of
character modelling, and the level coordinator both produced such a high
standard of work that I was happy to leave the concept art to them, although it
was felt that it was important for them to show their work to both myself and the
group to ensure the final art was liked by the whole team. (Kanjidaisuki, K.
2014).

After some discussion the three characters that would be used in the
game were chosen. Our main character and hero was to be a young Kappa named
Tokk and the enemies we chose were an Umbrella Demon and a possessed Sake
jar called a Kameosa. A kappa tends to look like a humanoid turtle around the
height of a young child. They are characterized by a large beak, a shell and have a

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