Our New Game Idea

Over the weekend I had thought up a few different ideas for games. Below is a picture of my preferred game idea. I tried to use the concept of subway surfer however have the dog move randomly on its own and have objects come onto the screen. The player would then have to tap on the good objects to make him run faster and clear bad objects to stop them hitting him which would make him run slower.

After we had our meeting on Monday, we were split into two concept groups. One half of us wanted to make a chicken running game, although it seemed fun it lacked the educational stuff that was required by the brief. I was in the other group with the idea of a matching tiles type of game that taught the children how to recognize animals and then gives them extra points for matching the correct food, and care to the animals.

We had a talk with the teachers to try and get help with our situation than was instructed to go and take both of the ideas and create something fun yet still educational from them. After another brainstorming session we had moved towards an arcade game based concept. Basically we decided to take a top down shot of a house and have the player run around the house caring for the animals. When the player gets close to an animal in need, they can interact with them in the form of a mini-game.

Here are a few concept images for the house and a few mini-games:

Fish bowl - the player feeds the fish, trying to keep the fish in a healthy weight range for as long as possible.

Cat backyard - The player uses a ball of yarn to lead a cat through the backyard hedge maze - avoiding dogs and sprinklers. The player also gets control of the sprinklers so they could prevent the patrolling dogs from reaching the cat.

Dog park – we decided to turn my game into one of the mini-games and added a storm to chase the dog so it gives the dog a reason to be running home.