Game Concept

2 years ago by cdtran

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Dino The Dinosaur

1. The working title: Dino The Dinosaur

2. The concept statement:

Dino is a newborn dinosaur. One day, Dino lost his mom when he went to the outside world without permission. Dino must find the way back home in no time by get over obstacle as cactus, blood thirsty dinosaurs, volcano firer, poisonous scorpion to reunite with his mom before the dark. On the way back home, Dino can fly to get over obstacles or equip random weapons to fight again his enemies such as firestone, a powerful rare stone that generated by volcano explosions.

3. Genre: Action – Platform game

In this game, a single player will play a role as a dinosaur in 2D world. Using inputs from computer keyboard, the player controls the dinosaur helping him bypass many levels, collecting objects to be able to avoiding obstacles and fight back to enemies. The player gets to the end of the game by finishing multiple levels to complete a final goal and see the credits.

4. Concept creation process:

The creation of Dino the Dinosaur is inspired by popular “Chrome Dinosaur” published by Google Inc. The game that can be play for free when the Chrome browser is unable to establish the connection to the Internet.

Dino the dinosaur game concept creation process is started with defining the main character of the game is the Dino, the dinosaur. Like the original version, Dino can only run forward; he can jump to avoid impediments and fight back his enemies, by successfully bypass an obstacle or an enemy, he will score one 1 point. This point can be accumulated to reach 100 points then the Dino can have extra life (maximum 3 lives). This extra life will act as a second chance if the Dino fail to bypass an obstacle or unable to avoid an attack from the enemies without restarting the game all over. In case Dino lost 3 lives during a level, the game will start all over again. To pass a level, Dino must avoid all the obstacles on the way with at least 1 life remaining. Player can select 3 different difficulties level to challenge themselves (Dino’s running speed will be increased depend on the level)

Different type of obstacle:

· volcano rocks

· cactus

· volcano fire

Different type of enemies:

· Flying dinosaur

· Flying volcano fire

Different difficulty level:

· Easy

· Normal

· Hard

5. Audience and competitive analysis.

Dino the Dinosaur is the game for everyone, male and female, children from 3 years old and up. As an upgraded version from the original Chrome Dinosaur with beautiful 8 bit graphic and decent game sound effects. Dino the Dinosaur will impress classic version players. The gameplay is very simple by jumping to avoiding things will enable players enjoy the game at their first try. The meaningful story of the game will have an attention from the group of teens who are from 8 to 12 years old, especially for those who love dinosaurs. However, this game may not have many players who aged from 45 and up as the game play may be too fast for them to follow and the graphic is too childish.

Dino the Dinosaur can also be played by men and woman who find the game is interesting to play while they have a short period of time (while having lunch at office, on the train to go to or go back from work) and found out that helping the Dino going home somehow relate to them who are also going back home from work. The game can be playing almost any places that has Internet connection.

As inspired a well-known “Chrome Dinosaur” game, Dino the Dinosaur faces heavy competition. In addition, easy game play just by jumping and avoiding obstacles, players may find it like previous games they used to play. The selling points of this game over the tother is that it has wide-range of game play levels combine with Dino ability to fight back his enemies while the classic version game does not support.

6. Game treatment and concept art.

Game Treatment

Player will play this game as a role of Dino who lost his mom while he went to the outside world not knowing by mom. In panic, Dino hurry to find the way back home, unfortunately, a rock from the far-away galaxy just hit the earth, caused volcano explosion and the rain of lava to everywhere. Dino knows that this is his last chance to see mom again before it is too late. Dino did not give up and try to run as fast as he can. On the way going back home to find dinosaur mom, there are multiple threats that can kill Dino as lava rain, blood-thirsty flying dinosaur, volcano rocks.

To survive the run, Dino must collect enough points to have extra life. Dino also able to collect random rare diamonds which appear on the roads to increase speed and stamina.

The key features of this game are the random items appear on the runway will boost Dino ability that can impact the level progress, depend on how skilful the player is, they can finish the game in different interesting ways. Random enemy or obstacles also impact on the speed of the Dino, if the Dino got hit by poisonous cactus his speed will be reduced. The speed will be restored after 10 seconds.

The key mechanics of this game are that the player can spacebar button to control the Dino to jump, if the player press the spacebar key longer will make the Dino jump higher. Dino will never stop running until being hit by enemies or obstacle.

Concept Art

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