Game Design Ideas

#Game Design Ideas

Generally wanted

• 2D
• Multiplayer
• Content Generation

##Shapeshifter (preferred)

• Change into objects/beings to trick/avoid/fight enemies or solve puzzles

  • e.g. Change into a vase inside a house to avoid being seen.
  • but: your transformation is not perfect, you have to learn to master it.
    • e.g. vase with glasses/mustache/bunny ears -> low disguise level in the beginning.
    • e.g. frog can only jump once in the air, later more often
    • plenty of easter eggs possible (e.g. cardboard box from "metal gear solid" series)

• Auto generated monsters/enemies

  • generated out of a set of body parts (head, arms (2, 4, 6), legs, tail, body, ...)
    • see "pokemon fusion"
  • animation???

• few or no attacks(?) -> stealth?

  • try to avoid attacks if possible

• (local) Co-op: help each other through the level

  • e.g. player1 transforms into baseball bat, player2 uses him to fight off enemies
  • e.g. player1 transforms into fan, player2 transforms into paper plane, ...
  • e.g. player1 transforms into vase, player2 into flowers, to achieve better disguise values
  • => would need gamepad support.

• AI of monsters/enemies would be trivial -> attack on sight, react to louder sounds -> no actual cognitive AI

• possible story:

  • sorcerer (student) learns basics of transformation from his master (tutorial: you play the master), then needs to do stuff on his own (Coop: with other student(s))
  • e.g. saving the master, saving, the princess, saving the world... whatever.

• possible setting:

  • medieval, modern elements
  • funny, humorous, not serious
    • see "Magicka"

• Inspiration:

  • Magicka (setting, story, humor)
  • Mark of the Ninja (stealth, confusion-spells ?)
  • Rogue Legacy (setting, humor, jump-n-run, enemies, ...)

##Strategy Space Shooter

• Auto generated space (Planets, Asteroids,...)

• Choose a battlefield (set marks on a map), place spaceships, fight as one of them.

  • e.g. in an asteroids belt enemies can't find you that easily, but you have to avoid collisions.

• Gain resources/money from enemies to buy new ships/weapons/upgrades/...

• Multiplayer (versus) -> LAN

  • evtl. singelplayer, but a "humanlike" AI is needed here (strategy, planing, ...)

unfinished:

• Gamedesign skript (is halt leider deutsch)
• from Wohlbrecht for "Praxis der Spieleentwicklung" http://data.wohlbrecht.de/emptyspaces_skript.pdf