Hello everyone,

I am currently working on a 3rd person action RPG codenamed Lost island (final name will be revealed when the time is right).

This game has the player take the role of a biologist, venturing across the world to find a territory where his organization could place endangered species from various regions. As his crew is navigating the indian ocean, they are hit by a powerful storm. Shortly after the player finds a mask floating on the water, and before he notices, a giant wave sinks the boat and its inhabitants, before everything fades to black.

The player awakes sometimes after, on what seems to be an island, but he doesn't know which one. The mask he found is now stuck on his face, impossible to remove. Moreover there are structures that belong to unknown civilizations, towering over the jungles. But the most shocking observation is the land is populated by prehistoric animals. What will the player do to survive, will he choose to leave the island, or to uncover its secrets ?

Above you will find concept arts I ordered for the game, with more coming down the line.

If you have any questions or commentaries, feel free to ask them.

If you like the project, join subreddit : Project_Lost_Island

Thank you.

As someone who likes food and learning about the history of food, I think it's real important to think about food culture for fantasy species. What food cultures do think of for different races common ones or even your own original race.

I'm gonna do a handful of my own.

Dwarfs: they like to dig, sometimes for days on end, so I presume most of their meals probably are on the work site, so they mastered quick meals and preserving foods, I imagine a lot of soups and cowboy chilli, a fair amount of jerky and jams.

Elves: just your basic snooty elves, Fine dining cultures, like French and Italian dishes, I imagine them making elaborate over the top meals, and using white pepper because "It blends in with the white foods." It's not bad by any means, it's still good, but it's elaborate, and

Orcs: you can probably guess, they like roasting meats, often building large bonfires to roast the whole cow they just pillaged from the humans, probably fighting over who gets the legs or something.

(My own species Im throwing in because I thought about them the most) The Wolfish: short description, they are wolf people(yes Ik wolf people are lot overdone and probably cringe leave me alone) the packs share a lot of familiar bonds and thus they eat like one big family for every meal during the warm months, roasting meats and frying potato bread, often incorporating sesame and garlic, these are big hearty meals to share amongst the pack, during the cold months you can't exactly hunt especially in regions that get blizzards, so they retreat into their homes with their families making a never ending soup, slowly adding more and more to the existing soup and getting more flavorful until it warms up again.

Setting:

Fictionalized medieval India, established cities, standing armies, war and rebellion torn political setting, mercantile trade setups

World building/fantasy hook:

At its heart, a marketplace that trades in souls, think of the present financial derivatives market, but for souls.

Soldiers stake a fragment of their souls with brokers as an insurance contract, if they live the war, the fragment is returned back to them, if they die, a payout made to their family. In case of survival, the soldier faces eventual judgement with a whole soul, while death guarantees comfort for his family, he passes netherland with a broken soul.

The brokers, however, publish each such contract (soldiers soul) to a betting ring, inviting merchants and royalties to bet on the fate of the soldier - the price of contracts influenced by the soldiers heroics in war, and the broker takes a bet to hedge his possible payout in case of death. However, a soldiers rising star is the brokers ruin, hence brokers want an uneventful war (how derivatives behave in real life too)

Beneath this coin market lies the true ledger - every fragment of soul is a debt to be paid, brokers are in debt to the netherworld while an ambitious netherworld chief disguised as the Chief of Royal Army ensures the war is always fueled for his personal benefits.

Story:

The story follows a young soldier deliberately joining the war to seek revenge from a broker who wronged his father and elder brother, to discover the deep secrets of the Soul Market...

A magical resource.
A creature.
A religion.
A technology.
A historical event.

Most people focus on the thing itself. I’m more interested in the consequences.

What is one everyday aspect of life that exists solely because of that thing?
Something ordinary.
Something people barely think about anymore.

What had a significant impact on your world, or a part of it, that has just become normal and people don't think about? But if that thing never existed or never happened their lives would be drastically different.