Game Concept

 Overview

• Working Titles

HopFlee

• Game Concept Statement

HopFlee is an entertaining game that provides an exciting environment and challenging atmosphere for the game user to play. The aspect of this game is about how long can game characters player survive in the game through the 2D environment to escape and avoid colliding with the obstacles they are facing in the game environment. In this game, the players must prevent themselves from danger and fight for high scores since there is no ending in this game. The game will keep going until you lose at any point in the game scene.

• Genres

The core genre of this game is Survival game. In a Survival game, the game users must keep their game characters alive no matter what the obstacle is. The game user needs to keep up with the problem and continue to reach any part of the game that might satisfy them. 

• Concept Creation

HopFlee is initially developed as an Anti-game which takes part from existing game genres. The game's ideas are basically similar to some games like flapping birds, and Flappux. but come with the purest difference in the style of the game.

HopFlee is developing as a 2D game that came with single characters player. In the game, the character players will encounter a fresh new environment and a level of difficulty based on how long they play in the game. From time to time, the game will get more and more challenging for the game user to accomplish.

The simple idea of this game is that game users will be taking control over the character or player in the game. In order to avoid the obstacles and prevent losing the game, the player can move either up or down direction since the scene of the game will take you toward the incoming obstacles. The upcoming traffic will be generated in a random position in the scene to make the game more exciting for the game users. The game users must escape the obstacles they encounter to receive the scores or points in the game. However, there is no finish line in this game because it is a survival game where users must keep themselves alive to reach any desired high score points.

When the game begins the game users will be given time (a few seconds) to respond to get ready before the real game proceeds. If the character players fail to survive at any point in the game, the program will tell them that the game is over, and the score they achieve will display at the same time.

The game achievement will be recorded in the game Score because each game user will achieve a different result as the game is based on a game user’s ability and skill. It is up to the capability of the users as to whether they can accomplish any possible outcomes in the game. 

• Target Audience and Competitive Analysis

This game is quite attractive and aimed at game users who enjoy playing a challenging game under a bit of pressure. This is an RPG game that can possibly hook all game users of every age. As well as, these days every game users are completely into a game that is extremely challenging and struggling to win because it makes them more competitive and not tedious whenever they play the game.

              There are a few similar games that have the same genre, structure, and familiarity in style as HopFlee. The Flappy bird is a mobile game that is developed by a Vietnamese video game artist (developer Dong Nguyen) for both platforms (android, ios) in 2013. Flappy bird is suddenly a hit in the world game market in early 2014. It then has the most download number of game users in the game store. 

Flappy bird game (Source: https://courses.ece.cornell.edu/ece5990/ECE5725_Fall2018_Projects/yw2243_zp83/in...)

In the world of games, game users will always expect a game that is likely to bring attention to everyone or a game that is like the one that they used to play which highly improves their game experience by collaborating with a new variety of game preferences to make it more interesting. However, HopFlee will be different from Flappy bird. HopFlee will transform itself into one of the most exciting for game users. HopFlee will be designed based on standard challenge gameplay to make game users satisfied and challenged at the same time. HopFlee will also develop a better UI and animation in the game compared to what Flappy bird does. 

+ Game Treatment

• Game Characters
• Player: cartoon airplane is a player character that can move up and down direction, and the camera will keep following the player to every point in the game scene.
• Obstacles: the problem that players will encounter come with different dimensions such as hurdle sticks, blocks of the wall, etc. The obstacles will be in random areas in the game field.

Cartoon Airplanes (Source: https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/cartoon-airplane)

• Setting

The character in the game scene will have an art style that matches the environment they are in. The game character will begin at the center on the left side of the lovely landscape which is surrounded by a beautiful environment. The landscape is based on a foundry with areas full of natural beauty-like scenery from the countryside. The obstacle will appear after a character in a game start moving. The obstacle is being the first level, and very basic for the game users to achieve at first. However, it might even get more difficult after a specified time pass.

• Why do I want to play this game?

The game is designed to be a bit longer depending on how the game user could achieve and is basically easy to get hang of. Game users will feel a sense of satisfaction when they play and compete in a challenge with other game users to seek the player who beats by high scores in the game. Users may even feel a sense of excitement due to no limit of time and end point in the game as the game will keep playing until the character player loses.

The game is not that difficult to play since the design is based on the analysis of the ability and skill of the game users. HopFlee game can also engage users by challenging themselves rather than just making the user happy. 

• Scope

The game is developed to target both PC and Consoles. Since the game has simple control and not very demanding graphics, it will also be easier for mobile and laptops as well. The game does not require a large amount of memory to store in the machine. Moreover, HopFlee does not require a large cost of budget to produce and design. Nonetheless, based on the game features. We expect more from the game especially the popularity and an impressive whole sum of profit in return for the sale and advertisement of the game.

• 2D Platform

HopFlee is a 2D platform game that comes with a similar platform style as Flappy bird and other 2D games but with a more advanced animation and UI. In this game, we can control our character player to start from the middle left side of the scene and move the players from up to down or down back to up depending on the situation that users want the character to be in the game. We can also speed up the character played in the game to make it more fun. The game character will keep moving forward in the right direction of the scene with a reasonable amount of distance in a direction which is where they will face the obstacles.

• Game Controller

In this game, I will prioritize design on a PC and Laptop platform base. The game player can control the character by using keyboard keys such as:

• W or Arrow Up (key): to control the movement of the character to the Up direction.
• S or Arrow Down (key): to control the movement of the character to the Down direction.

• Game Instruction and Rules

• The player must play as instructed by the text that appears during the game. If the input of the game is incorrect, the game will not be implemented.
• Click the start button to get into the game scene to play the game.
• Before the game start, there will be a time display given to notify the user to get ready for the game.
• Once you cannot get hang of the game and want to play again. You can proceed with the game again button.
• Once you collide with the obstacle you will lose the game. Then the game point will be displayed with the high scores you achieve in the game.

• Art Design

Landscape Sketch (Source: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/9640586687457166/)

The game will loop the background scene as this game will come with an entry point but without an endpoint to capture the spawning obstacles in the scene with simple 2D looping graphics. The sprite of the character will be animated to determine the movement of the player. The camera is equipped with a variety of movements to follow the performance of the player. The obstacles will also be animated to spawn different barriers to stop the character player’s action. There will be an explosion with the Particle system when players collide with obstacles.

• Audio

There will be a variety of audio sources in the game like background music and sound effect when the player collides with the obstacles that will fit the environment of the game.

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