Blog Entry #3

(this description can also be found on our google doc here)

1. What type of Game will you be creating?

Our game will be a turn based strategy, with movement and activity set to a 4 by 4 grid. The game will alternate between player turns and enemy turns, and the player must maneuver their characters around the map according to the which character has what attributes, the placement of enemies on the map and their expected activity, and the variables on the map itself, in order to fulfill a certain requirement to advance to the next level,

2. What is the quintessential experience you want the player to feel?

We want the player to feel excitement and heroism. Excitement will come from the threat that comes from an enemy that outnumbers the player's characters and actively pursues them both established in the plot and experienced in gameplay. Heroism will come from the player's characters' determination to eradicate the large threat to the world despite the personal risks.

3. What is the theme of your game?

The themes are action, adventure, and man and machine vs. nature and machine, The action and adventure themes come from the combat that is the center of the gameplay, where characters battle enemies and progress through the world and discover more and more information concerning the plot. Man and machine vs. Nature and machine comes from the main characters vs. the main antagonists. The main character and its party consists of robots and surviving humans, while the antagonists consist of plant-like zombies and an AI controlling them all.

4. Provide an initial storyline

The main character, an android, awakens with few memories, and steps outside to discover they are in the middle of a zombie-like outbreak. The main character traverses the zombie-infested city and collects "recruits" along the way, consisting of surviving humans and some robots. As the game progresses the player finds out the source of the zombie outbreak. A scientist (gender yet to be determined) was trying to create a perfect AI whose purpose was to help mankind, but this AI, after observing mankind for some time, came the conclusion that humans would work more efficiently as hive minded, plant fused zombies, and releases spores into the city to begin the process. The scientist wants to stop the AI, but is infected. Before the scientist could fully turn, they uploaded their consciousness into the only robot available to them. This is the main character android from the beginning of the game. The android and it's recruits then make their way to the AI controlling the zombies and defeat it.