Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Team Gamerz

Team member: Tan Siong Zhe, Lim Yuk Min, Wang Heng Kwang
Game start scene
1. -Game start(enter the game)
2. -Continue(load previous unfinished game)
3. -Score(the best score recorded)
4. -Help
5. -Option
6. –Exit(Quit the game)

Game Start
7. Adventure mode
8. Mini Game
9. Multiplayer

Continue
10. Continue from the previous unfinished play stage

Score
11. Place where record top 10 best score ever make

Help
12. Help is making to teach player how to play the game, the control command and special function.
13. It also prepared some demo stage to allow user for some basic training

Option
14. You can set up the game difficult here. Exp beginner, easy, hard, insane.
15. Texture detail.
16. Window mode or full screen.


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Adventure mode
Stage 1 ( Teleport mode)
1. This game we going to play using dice.
2. There are 5 color kinds square (Green, Black, Red, Yellow and Blue).
3. When you steps on black color square, instantly you will be warp to the nearby black color square.
4. If player step on the square that got one people digging. It will stop user from take turn for 3 rounds.
5. You need to roll accurate the right value in order to finish this stage.
6. Example if you left 4 steps to complete the stage, but you roll a 6. Mean you will fall back 2 steps. While the step color you step on will warp you behind nearly same color square.


Stage 2(Math mode)
1. After you finished stage 1, you will come to stage 2. In stage 2 there are all about math( plus = +, minus= - , times= * , divide = /)
2. There are 3 paths; left path is all about minus math. The path is longer and easy but more math encounter.
3. While right path is about plus math. The path is equal longer as left path. The math is easy but more math encounter.
4. Middle path is shorter in order to finish the game, and the calculation need to make is more difficult but lesser math encounter.
5. In order to move in this game not dice, player need to select their path. And to move them need to answer the question. If player success to answer the question, them will move forward 1 step. Else them will not move until next round until them answer the question.




Stage 3(Word mode)
1. Stage 3 is about word typing.
2. In order to move, player need to type in the word that will appear on screen as fast as possible. The word only will stay for 6sec.
3. If player successes to type the word, then player allow rolling the dice else player can’t roll in that round.
Mini Game
Disappear square

1. This game got 7 square which contain (blue, yellow, green, purple, red, black, orange) color
2. This game we going to use the arrow key in order to play.


3. Any of the color square will getting invisible and disappear, player who step on it will fall and lose the game.
4. So in this game player need to react faster, once the square that step on going disappear, quickly make their move.
5. The game will go faster and the square will disappear more faster if winner haven’t decided after some times.



Outlook when the stage haven’t started






Sample outlook when the yellow square going disappear


6. All the adventure can be player in multiplayer mode, player can compete each other to fight for the champion.
7. The score method when in multiplayer is champion gain 10 point; runner up 5 point, for third only got 3 point. Rest 0 point.
8. If your score break any top 10 best score record, you will be ask to record your name inside.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

WARZ (working title) - a board game



Our game is based on hopscotch, but with a battle element thrown in.

Elements brought in from hopscotch

  • Jumping nodes
  • Claiming nodes as one’s own


There can be a maximum of 3 players maximum and the player needs at least another opponent to play. Each territory our game board represents a fictional geographical location on the battlefield. As such, the territory borders are drawn to define the geography of those
regions. Our game also uses an area movement game mechanic as implanted by Risk.

But instead of armies , our game uses ‘nodes’ with different attack and defense ‘stats’ which can be conquered and used against other factions.

Players continue conquering territories and ‘nodes’ until two territories of a different faction are adjacent to each other, whereby the game enters battle phase. The last faction which makes a move becomes the attacker and the other a defender. The faction with a intact territory wins.

When attacking, the attacker may choose from air, ground or sea attacks which have different bonuses to cater to the kind of territory they are attacking. Before the battle phase
starts, both players may chose to draw ‘Fate Cards’ which may have positive or negative
effects The attacking faction rolls a dice, and the number becomes the attacker’s attacking
force, after which all relevant bonuses are added to it.

The defender rolls the dice and like the attacker, all relevant bonuses are added to it. The attacker’s attack is considered successful if it is larger than the defender’s number. If he attack is successful, then the node is taken and added to the attacker’s territories.


Explanation of attack-defense mechanics:

As in real warfare, certain positions are considered more ‘strategic’ than others, and some places might be good for holding out against some kinds of attacks.

As in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, King Harold of England led his troops up a hill to defend against a Norman attack. This was because he knew that the Norman archers who could easily wipe out his infantry under normal battle conditions. However, shooting uphill, the Norman archer’s effectiveness was greatly reduced and gave Harold a fighting chance.

We plan to implement this ‘choice’ in our gameplay by offering different stats or characteristics to the different nodes/territories in our game. This way, players might rush for a strategic asset and hold the line, or choose whatever mode of attack which suits the target (enemy territory).

How we do this is by implementing the attack /defense mechanism. We thought the armies of ‘Risk’ were realistic, but more complicated to play. What we were aiming for was something easy to pick up, yet gave the player the chance to make strategic choices.

The Attack/Defense System

As mentioned before, the battlefield will be full of territories, each of which have different stats or bonuses for each mode of attack.

Assuming the attacker had a 3+ bonus in air, he could use the air attacks as the bonus gives him 3+ attacking power. But if the defender had 2+ defensive bonus, he might forgo a chance of having a larger attack in favor of another mode of attack which the defender has less bonus instead.(which might have a higher chance of actually winning.)


Summary of game events:

  1. Players expand territories by claiming them. Players roll dice to determine who picks first. Players can only pick territories adjacent to their own territory, in effect expanding their territory.
  2. Once a faction claims a territory next to another territory or node belonging to another faction, battle phase starts.
  3. The faction who moves into the node adjacent to another faction’s territory is considered the attacker.
  4. The attacker chooses from 3 modes of attack – air, ground and sea- each of which having different bonuses.
  5. The attacker then chooses whether or not to draw a ‘Fate Card’.
  6. Attacker rolls dice to determine base attack score and all bonuses are added.
  7. The defender is forced to use whichever mode of defense according to the attacker. (eg: attacked using air, defend using air.)
  8. The defender then chooses whether or not to draw a ‘Fate Card’.
  9. Defender rolls dice to determine base defense score and all bonuses are added.
  10. If the attacker’s total attack score is higher, the territory is considered overrun and claimed by the attacker.
  11. Cycle runs until only one faction is left.


Example:



Attacker’s Stats:

Air 3+

Ground 2+

Sea 1+

Defender’s Stats:

Air 2+

Ground 0+

Sea 3+

Attacker has 3+ bonus in air attacks.

Defender has 2+ bonus in air defense.

If the attacker had used the air attacks and rolled a 4 and the defender had rolled a 5.

Attacker’s total attacking score: 4 + 3 = 7

Defender’s total defensive score : 5 + 2 = 7

This leaves them evenly matched as the attacker’s bonus is just 1.

However, if the player were to take into account that the defender had +0 bonus in ground

defense, he could actually use ground attacks to get a +2 advantage over the defender,

compared to the +1 of his strongest attack - air attacks.





Sorry for all the delays, we are aware that we are WAAYYY behind schedule, but i hope you can bear with us for just a little longer.. We shall be posting up the Maps and more rules on gameplay and Fate Cards.

-Chan Hwa Ta




Thursday, April 23, 2009