Games Engineering Project Part 2

To read part 1 go here.

After we came up with the basis of our idea we began to flesh things out a little more and start work on the game design document and a paper prototype.

Our original idea was to model a game based on the rules off British Bull Dogs we began to elaborate further upon this idea and we came up with the following.

"The player will be given a choice of one of two teams to start on: the chasers and the runners.

On the running team the player’s objective is to run from the starting point to the safe zone on the opposite side of the map whilst avoiding anyone on the chasing team. They will be able to do this through multiple different ways, running, diving side to side, jumping and sliding. (possibility of being unable to move backwards and only in the direction they are facing) If they are caught they will switch over to the chasing team at the end of each round.

The chasing team will start in-between the running team and safe zone. The team will start off with two players but as more players are caught they shall be added to the team. They will have the same movement abilities as the runners but shall have to press an action key to catch them.

The game is aimed at players who are interested in fast paced, twitch based games. Primarily between 16 – 28 years old and of either gender.

The game is aimed at and will be developed on the PC for the PC with support for the Xbox 360 controller to allow multi-player.

The game will have 22 players in total with single-player and support for 4 player multi-player.
The team split, initially, will be 2 chasers vs 20 runners. This changes at the end of each round depending on how many people are caught."

After this we made a paper prototype to model the movement to see if the idea worked on paper and was fun to play. In the interest of keeping these post's short and sweet i am going to end this here. So Thanks for reading and be sure to pass it along to your friends! Check back next week to see what we learnt from the paper prototype. 

Part 3 - here

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