Game prototypes

3 prototype games for my CART 315 class

1. Last Breath Of A New Empire

• Interactive narrative
• Mild resource management
• Sci fi political interest
• RTS-style strategy game set in space
  
• Heavy focus on dialogue
• Stellaris-like interface, but with less tension and more whimsicality
• Story focuses on the player as a shopkeeper, watching the collapse of an inter-galactic empire through sales and conversations
• Some resource-management and special events here and there

2. Kharkovchanka

• Infinite and procedurally generated levels
  
• Dynamic vehicle controls
• Snow physics
• Task-based research game
  
• Semi-historical setting
• Procedurally-generated
• Research mechanics
  • Star tracking
  • Meteorite discovery
  • Ice core drilling

3. Vehementia

• Heavy focus on balancing narrative and combat
  
• “Feel-good” combat, with satisfying responsiveness
• Integration of voice lines and accompanying animated text
• Replayability, with moments of reprieve for proper pacing
• Is it possible to make an (at least mildly) ethical ultra-violent game?
  
• How can we use calm and/or proper narratives to counteract this?
• Use of gameplay “momentum” to sway player emotion