Final Project Proposal

I wanted to create a pixel game in the software of Game-Maker that involves both pixel animation, coding, and scripting a story.

Software:
Photoshop, Blender (possibly), and Game-Maker

Main Steps:
1. Think of the plot, sprites, settings, and game play (1)
2. Plot how the levels will look like (same day as step 1)
3. Create settings and character in Photoshop (3)
4. Coding (3)
5. Finalise the project and mesh everything into an elaborate game (1)

Resources I intend to use:
Youtube tutorials, such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECdvBzkaCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0boZofzJfME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_IWUxd1ps4

Game Idea:

Sam lives in a world where people finally have the technology to control dreams, and many find themselves lost in these incredible alternate realities.
But people begin to have peculiar dreams, and begin to die.
Sam, who also experiences one of these dreams but is able to escape, finds that he/she can go back and forth from dreams to reality and once inside he/she is able to find the cause of the deaths and the "things" which are causing them.
End:
He/she is able to trace the deaths back to a woman who was in control of a medicine factory. She was making certain pills have fragments of "leerus", which is similar to a virus, but instead manifests your head.

Gameplay:
Killing leerus (opponents)
Searching and removing pieces of their fragment from your mind.
A shooting maze game.

Levels: 3
1st- sunset setting
2nd- house setting
3rd- ocean setting (or night?)

Characters:

-Sam (player) {Gender unknown}
-Death of random characters seen by player in phone
-Leerus (enemies in game)
-Woman (medicine factory)