Game Brainstorm

Game Brainstorms

Four types of games that I would like to possibly develop in the future.

1. First-Person Shooter

Inspired by the likes of classic shooter games from Doom (1993) to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) I would like to create a simple First-Person Shooter (FPS) game. Having started our Unity tutorials in Week 2 and creating a simple environment to run around in I think it would be an interesting challenge. There are scripts and tutorials (from none other than Jimmy Vegas himself) available online on how to make a FPS game. He goes in depth on how to make a basic shooter and I feel that if I was to watch his videos it would be possible to bring that knowledge into my own environment. The video series even goes as far as to create spider enemies that you can shoot in game. My overall idea would be to create a presentable and fully working level where you have to shoot all of the spiders to complete the level. I would also be thinking that I could have five "waves" of the spiders that you have to kill in order to finish the level, adding a bit more depth and task to the level.

In terms of graphics I am not too pushed on having the next award-winning open world shooter that the grass and water moves and the weather changes every 10 minutes in game. Simple graphics and textures in a mountainous/woodlands environment that works is good enough for me. Having said that a simple game by modern standards, the 2007 classic Medal of Honour: Airborne has most of its fighting in urban settings during WW2. The textures are simple but effective in setting the tone of the levels.

2. First-Person Adventure Game

My second idea is a First-Person Adventure game inspired by the likes of Oblivion (2006) and Skyrim (2011) which are both part of the same game series; The Elder Scrolls. My idea is to create a moderately large open world with mountains, woods, creeks and a small waterfall. The objective of the game will be to collect gems like the ones we made in the first Unity tutorial. I would like the game to have dialogue pop up boxes that create a bit of a narrative and also instruct the player on how to move, jump and use other controls. I think it would be a nice homage to The Elder Scrolls games to have your main weapon be a sword and to possibly have to defeat skeleton enemies as a challenging side objective in the players quest to collect all the gems.

3. Jump Adventure Game

My third idea would be to have a 3D version of Super Mario where the objective of the game is to run around and jump on enemies to progress. Much like my FPS idea the enemies could come in five waves, each more difficult than the last to help make it more challenging. In terms of graphics/textures I would like to make the game look very cartoon-like (example below) to somewhat resemble Super Mario and similar games, and to give it a somewhat childish and nostalgic feel for older players. The world I would create for this idea would most likely consist of small hills, trees, some running water that the player could possibly bob along in (similar to Minecraft) and a bright sky with puffy white clouds. I would love the lighting to be bright to really give the Mario/Minecraft feel to the game.

Cartoon 3D Background - Source

4. Open World Detective Game

A little different from the rest as this one does not revolve around any form of violence, whether childish or otherwise, my last idea is to have a detective game where the player has to follow a series of clues in a small open world. I think with this world it would be cool to use some basic house structures (like in PUBG) that you can explore, as well as outside with the usual trees and water sources. I think it would be nice to have items that you can interact with to give you the clues in a dialogue box, and a counter on the right hand side of the screen to let you know which clues you have collected e.g. Clues A-E. These could possibly be selected to read their dialogue boxes again by utilising the F keys on the keyboard e.g. press F1 to bring up Clue A etc.