The Two Game Ideas

The team went through quarter presentations successfully. Looks like all the faculty have an idea of what we are upto. Many even felt that we have a solid process in place. For this week, we discussed about how we wanted to proceed further.
1. There should be a facebook oriented outlook, which focuses on facebook and database specific challenges.
2. There should be game idea discussions and prototyping.


For now, we have decided to collect the Name and Location of the objects in the image. 


Accordingly, we have come up with the following two ideas about our game.


1. Lazer Tag - Shoot Lazer at the image where-ever you want. the objective would be to cut out the object. once the object is cut out, it would gain life of its own ( shown through animation and sound effects ) and would fly around the screen. Perhaps it could fly into your 'box' where you could use it for something later. this method tags the objects,but there is no method for verification. The idea is to extend lazer into other cutting tools like chainsaw, scissors, etc and make it addictive.


2. Flip tiles - To verify what has been cut from (1), we decided to have the flipping tiles game. the player is shown an image and it is covered with tiles. The player has to flip the right tiles to uncover the object. Minimum number of tiles flipped would merit more points. It is assumed that the chances for both the players to tag as well as uncover the wrong object is minimal. It is also assumed that it would be a good idea to introduce a character into the game. The character itself can be a 5 lined comic figure which happens to be your cursor. This would make the player to be emotionally attached to the game. 


So the team is currently prototyping the games (1) and (2) and would like to infer the results from play. The team is also concurrently working on setting up a database to host our game on facebook. A game that was developed for Game Jam ( Pepe ) is being uploaded onto facebook, so that the team will know about the process.