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      Pitch and Concepts

 

Pitch 1 (30/4/2014) 

For pitch 1, we brainstorm and came out with a few concepts.

Idea 1:

Game Title: Primitive Maze Tower

Game Concept: 2D top down puzzle which involve 20 levels of different forms of puzzle on each level.

 

Feedback from the panels:

Different forms of puzzle are hard to balance the overall gameplay and it is challenging to contain the fun for the player to enjoy, as it has different forms of play involve in the game concept listed. 

 

Idea 2:

Game Title: Lion Puzzle

Game Concept: Platform puzzle which involve switching of lion and cub to solve the puzzle. Puzzle involve activating switches, going through tunnels, avoiding hunter and hunter’s trap.

 

Feedback from the panels:

A better way to design a game that allows the lion to crouch instead of switching between a lion and a cub to solve the puzzle. Need more thoughts to improve the mechanic of the player to create better experience in the game.

 

Idea 3

Game Title: Angus

Game Concept: A cut-scene story based platform game where player solve puzzles to gradually understand its story of his forgotten memory.

 

Feedback from the panels:

We Should improvise the game closely with story such as where player solve puzzle within the context of a person’s mind to learn his or her story to understand the story instead of cut-scene which is common among games.

 

Idea 4

Game Title: Shape Shifter

Game Concept: Collecting shape and piece out shape into puzzle to form an animal to obtain an ability to solve certain puzzles.

 

Feedback from panels:

Maybe you could combine the abilities. Idea 2 and 4 seems to have similar mechanic and gameplay. Panels suggested to combine idea 3 and 4 to pull out an interest story closely to the player to enjoy.

 

Pitch 2 (7/5/2014)

We narrow down the 4 concepts into 3 and decided to blend in Angus and shape shifter together into a story based platform game.  We've changed the idea for the primitive maze tower and lion puzzle into Fit In and Formers. 

 

Idea 1

Game Title : Fit in

Game Concept: Player avoid within four grids with endless obstacles on the grid for player to avoid.

 

Feedback from the panels:

No innovative involves and requires new mechanic to enable the game to be fun. Therefore, we decided to reject this idea.

 

Idea 2

Game Title: Formers

Game Concept: Platform puzzle where player forms a shape using 9 square shapes given and form shape like stairs, vertical ladder, bridge, and anchor.

 

Feedback from the panels:

9 square will be a little harder to execute and the number of squares can be reduced. Maybe as the level progresses, player is given more square to work with. Panels suggested more work on gameplay to enhance the gameplay experience.

 

Idea 3

Game title: Shape shifter

Game concept: Platform puzzle where player collect shapes and piece up shapes to form an animal puzzle to obtain ability to solve more puzzles.

 

Feedback from the panels:

Panels suggested to limit the number of animals player able to form into 3 instead of 5 and plan more solid levels to allow each type of animal to be used to its fullest and also combine ability of each animal on each level.

 

 

After some discussion on final concept idea, we decided to choose Shape shifter. It has the most potential compared to the other ideas.