Thursday, March 12, 2009

Game Design Document

Game Design Document

Bar Game (W0rking Title)

Overall Design Summary
Player controls a male bar attendant who's aim is to get drunk by the end of the evening (5 minutes) while juggling both money and his bladder level.

Design
Goal:
The player will have to balance the amount of alcohol he can hold at a time with how much money he has and the time limit. The player will have to earn money to spend on drinks by completing mini tasks for the characters around the bar. Upon successfully completing these tasks the player is rewarded with money which they can spend on more drinks. He will have to avoid the obstacles of the bar that take money away from him upon interaction with them.


Gameplay:
The game consists of 2 kinds of screens. Pre-rendered scenes such as buying a drink at the bar and actual gameplay screens.


During the pre-rendered cutscenes the player will be able to interact with the scene by clicking on the various buttons such as what drink to buy. The pre rendered scenes will be taken from the players eyes and it will be in a first person view.

The other kind of screen is the actual gameplay. The player controls their player from a top down point of view and has to navigate around the bar to various areas such as to the counter or to the bathroom to empty his stomach meter.


Controls:

During the pre-rendered cut scenes the player will use the mouse to click on the buttons to buy drinks.

The player will be able to move to th


Scoring:
The player has to try and fill up his drunkenness meter as high as possible but as the player drinks more their stomach meter will fill up requiring them to go to the bathroom. En route to the bathroom the player will have to navigate around different enemies.

Once in the bathroom the player will move to the cubicles

The two different types of enemies are:

A)Shady Guy

Shady guys are people who have beanies and brown coats. They move in a pattern around the bar and upon colliding with them the player will lose some money and their drunkenness meter will slightly decrease

B)Pink Females

Women are in pink and travel as a group of 2-3 sprites (tiles). The sprites will home and follow the player as they walk around and upon collision the player loses money and a bit of their drunkenness.


Death:

The player can't die per se but they can fail to get drunk by the 5 minutes and the game will end.


Artistic Overview
The game has a retro feel with the graphics being slightly blocky sprite art. The game takes place mainly in a small bar.

Technical Overview
The game will be programmed in Python:

A)32 by 32 grid.

B)544 by 576 screen size.

C)Each character will have 4 different sprites for each direction.

D)Images=Gif

E)Walking e0000.gif , Walking e0001.gif
range 0000-0003

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Game Parameters

No parameters to list at this time as they will need to be tweaked and changed.

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