Animooter: Concept

Background concept for the game:
Whilst this is not central to the theme of my project I thought it would be useful as a general guide to the style of content I will be creating for the map. As a consequence most of the concepts here are not in the slightest original, inspiration comes from science fiction novels.

"The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist, socialist, and utopian^[1]^[2] society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks which features in a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction by him, collectively called the Culture series."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

mixed with ideas obtained from here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

Story:
You wake up in a foggy dark forest,head towards the dim light in the distance, you enter the building with walls made of water, there's a flickering hologram in the centre that activates, it speaks for only a fraction of a second, you can't make out what it is saying. Flick a glowing switch to turn on the lights and a small robot teddy bear wakes up, he has the personality of a child so he isn't very helpful, you attempt to find out where you are, what is this place and what the broken hologram is saying, he gives you some vague answer that the previous people became boring and you need to fix the hologram

it's about a race of beings that "sublimed", the hologram represents their species, they eventually lost contact with the physical world due to small changes in the physical constants of the universe which affected the technology they use to communicate between the normal universe and where ever they are now, they've been isolated for a long time...

It's just a short game, the objective is to fix the broken machine by looking for parts and solving puzzles.

A collection of images that go with my theme: