A page for general thoughts and Ideas, create a header for a new thought if necessary

Pictures

• It might be a good idea to include pictures, even if it is a crude drawing, to aid in explanation of ideas or pitches.

General game idea/implementation/tweaks

• I don’t know if anyone has heard of wii tanks, it is a game (in a game) where you drive a tank around and try to destroy the enemy tanks before they hit you. Bullets bounce of the wall and enemy tanks have different abilities such as periodically turning invisible or having faster shots. The game itself has different levels each of which take place on a map which looks similar to a maze. I wonder if it would be a good idea to take this concept and tweak it to add more features such as random modifiers that affect the map at specific intervals, these modifiers could include turning every wall into physical objects which can be pushed and adjusted or applying ice like physics to the floor, we can even implement ideas from other pitches. For example from the crossy road idea we can create a modifier which makes objects move from one side of the screen to the other which would damage/destroy you. From the abyss idea we can create a modifier that turns the screen black in which the player has to use a sonar ability to see the enemy/shots.
• I suppose the main purpose of this project is to get us familiar with an industry style development process and to understand why documentation matters. I also played a few of the games made by last year’s cohort and, maybe wrong, noticed they kept things simple and workable (the MVP). So maybe we choose a simple game idea (like the tank game) we can build from scratch or tweak the source code with p5.js library, introduce some engineering challenges to differentiate it, and put our effort into a strong rationale for why we chose it.
• I like Georgia’s alpha build. It reminds me of Super Mario and brings back memories of wasting time on games. That said, as a play tester, I’m assuming that is the easiest level and I tried a few time and struggled to reach the goal. It’s the same feeling I had with several of last year’s projects. My confidence is gone. To soothe my fragile ego, I googled whether this is my problem only and came across an article on what makes game enjoyable, quoted below. I am sure that version is just a starter and we will build from there. Just a bit of thought that we could consider as we build the game out.

GameFlow: A Model for Evaluating Player Enjoyment in Games

The level of difficulty in games should be varied, gradually increasing to maintain the interest of the player but provide more challenge as he or she develops mastery [Desurvire et al. 2004; Pagulayan et al. 2003]. Games should not start out too difficult [Pagulayan et al. 2003], but invite players to try new strategies and extend their repertoire each time they play [Juul 2004; Pagulayan et al. 2003], culminating in the completion of the game [Johnson and Wiles 2003].