March 08, 2010

Design

• What type of game are you going to produce?
Ans: I’m going to produce a platform type game. It will be at a medium level of difficulty – not too hard, not too easy. There will be a lot of fighting, and lots of traps in which the character will try to be sucked into and defeated in.

• What will it look like?
Ans: My game will consist of different varying “levels”. “Ground” levels, “underground” levels and “sky” levels, to be precise. There shall be many traps and lots of enemies trying to stop the main character from reaching his destination and accomplishing his mission. There will be many power-ups at different portions, allowing the character to regain power by collecting them. Also, there will be different landmarks throughout the game

• How will the characters be controlled?
The “left” and “right” arrows on the arrow pad will be used to control the avatar/character in the game, while the “up” arrow button will allow it to jump. The “space bar” will allow the character to use the many weapons provided to destroy enemies and hazards, and the “C” button will be used to activate the provided jet packs.

• What will be the objective of the game?
Ans: The game is about how the character is seeing a vague world in his sleep. He is sure that he has seen this world somewhere before, but he can not recall where from. He soon finds out that he is not able to leave this world, and the only way for him to do so is to eliminate all the enemies and predators in this world, collect all the gems and safely reach the other end of this world. He has a long journey ahead of him, and it will not be safe.

• How are you going to make sure that the players like your game?
Ans: First I will play the game myself, and see if there’s anything that I think is terrible or bad, and then I’ll fix that part. I’ll get my friends and other classmates to check it and take their feedback and suggestions and ask them what they think of the game. I will also ask them to tell me what they thought was good and what they think that I could do better on.

• How long will you need to create it? Give a timeline for its completion.
Ans: The game will take about three to five days to finish, as it is slightly complex and filled with different elemental stages (water, fire, sky etc.). The game should be finished by the 8th of March at the most.

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