For my verticle slice I pondered between doing Sci-Fi or Fantasy. I decided to go with Fantasy and came up with a couple of different ideas:

-Being in a “main street” of a medieval town, where the main focus of the viewer would be a fountain which would have houses on the sides and towered over by a castle in the back.

-A stable with horses and artillery, as if the knights were ready to go to war.

-A decaying/abandoned throne room, which would aim to give the “viewer/player” a sense of curiosity to know what went on in that place.

I decided to go with the last one, and I sketched out two rough designs for it.

-One would have a long stair way towards the throne, which would show the wealth of the Kingdom (making the mystery of what happened bigger)

-The other sketch was a simple throne room with just a carpet which would lead to the throne. The throne would be surrounded by decaying pillars as well as having a sword laying on the throne showing that the King died protecting his Kingdom (that last part was just to give it a “story”, I may not follow through with the sword part though)

Ultimately, I’ve decided to go with my second choice, I believe that scenario has more of a relation to what we see in real-world decaying ruins of old castles.