The Farm
General description
This is the safe zone, also this is the location for tutorial level and exposition cut scenes. The location of the farm and the farm house is set in North of Iran, near mountains and jungles (not desserts) it snows relatively frequently.
The Game start location is the place where villager hold their town meeting as its the chief's home!
Inspiration
There is village in north of Iran that I got some of my inspirations from called Ozkala. It has mountains and jungles all around the village. I feel like the layout of the village will be similar to Ozkala, but it wouldn't be an exact replica.
Ozkala
The following are some picture and the sources of Ozkala for inspirational purposes
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFL8pWJByFn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Birds eye view
The right side of the image above is a mountain that is connected to the jungles and farms that leads to the village. That is similar to what I had imagined for the game.
The in game design for the farm as a whole is shown here. It is only a rough sketch but it shows almost every important point of entry!
I've tried to have the map loosely based on the shape of a heart, showing the importance of heart in the game
The Army base (Main Gameplay Area) would be the other side of the mountain on the rail road but the river connects the two and Darius's house would be on the farm that is on the closes line of pedestrian path by the river.