Mega Man

Mega Man is an action, and platform game developed by CAPCOM. This game was first released in a NES in 1987.

Interactivity

There are several interactive controls for the player in this game. If the player pressed 'A' button, the character will jump. Moreover, the character will attack if the player pressed 'B' button. This attack may vary according to the character's avatar which can be acquired during the game.

Concept

Similar like other action games, player is encouraged to finish all levels included in this game. In every levels of the game, the environment used is in an industrial place. Moreover, the character used by the player and all the enemies are robots. In each level, there are many kinds of enemies with different attacks which give various damage to the player. Some of them also have unique ability such as how they protect themselves from player's attacks. Additionally, there are some obstacles within a level that must be passed by the player using several techniques in order to move on to the end of the level. Within a level, player can also acquires several power-ups which can replenish the character's health gauge or add character's life. Scoring system is also included in the game, in which can be increased by obtains power-ups and defeat the opponents.

 
In the end of the level, the player will be given a boss, in which must be defeated to finish the level. By default, the player's character attack his enemies by using standard weapon called standard blaster. However, the player is given a weapon that works similarly with it's boss attack after the boss had been defeated.

Settings

From the main menu, the player is given various levels which can be differentiated by choosing the boss of the level.

Whenever the player choose/ start a level, his/ her character is given a full hp gauge with a standard blaster which can be changed by the player if he/ she had owned a boss weapon.

Goal

Obviously, the player must defeat the final boss appeared in the end of the level and complete all the levels provided by the game. Optionally, the player can obtains a score as high as possible.

Challenge

After the player had accomplished all the levels given by the game from the beginning, a new level is appeared which must be finished to complete the game. Among other levels, this final level is the hardest game to be played. Within the level, the player must defeat more than 1 boss, and an advanced techniques must be known to finish the level.

Story

The genius Dr. Light and his assistant, Dr. Willy, co-create the humanoid robot Mega Man alongside six other advanced robots: Cut Man, Guts Man, Ice Man, Bomb Man, Fire Man, and Elec Man. These robots were designed to perform industrial tasks including construction, demolition, logging, electrical operations, or labor in extreme temperatures, for the benefit of Monsteropolis's citizens. Dr. Wily grows disloyal of his partner and reprograms these six robots to aid himself in taking control of the world. Dr. Light sends Mega Man to defeat his fellow creations and stop Dr. Wily. (Wikipedia, 2013)

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Metal Slug

Metal Slug is a 'Run and Gun' game developed by Nazca Corporation. This game was first released on Neo-Geo MVS arcade platform.

Interactivity

There are several interactive controls for the player when playing the game. If the user press 'A' button, the character will shot a fire, or stab with a knife. Furthermore, the avatar used by the player will jump if the user press 'B' button. The character can also throw a grenade or cannon when riding a vehicle by pressing 'C' button.

Concept

Basically, the player(s) must shoot continuously from incoming enemies until the end of the level. There is also scoring system for this game which is commonly used on other game(s) in this platform. This game also has time remaining which prevent the player to stay idle.

Settings

When the player start the game, he/ she will be given three lives, ten bombs, and shotgun which has unlimited ammo. If the character died and has no more life, the player still could continue the game by spend his/ her credits. On the way to the end, the character may acquire several upgrades and 'Metal Slug' tank(s). Moreover, the player can meet some prisoner of wars which will give a random item. Every mission also has different environments such as forests, and canyons. There is also co-op system which let the player to invite his/ her friend to play the game as teammates.

Goal

The objective of this game is to finish all the missions given. Optionally, the player could also obtains score as high as possible.

Challenge

When the character almost reach the end of the level, he/ she will be given a boss which must be killed in order to complete the mission. There are also various kind of enemies which had its own difficulty. When the player proceed to the next mission, the difficulty of the game also increased.

Story

The evil General Morden and his rebel army has launched a coup d'état on the world's governments, and all attempts by the armies of the various countries to curtail his growing power fail. His most recent attack has given him access to a new form of all-terrain combat tank dubbed "Metal Slug". In a last effort to stop Morden, Cpt. Marco Rossi and Lt. Tarma Roving of the Peregrine Falcon Strike Force are sent to locate and eliminate his powerbase, as well as reclaim or destroy any Metal Slugs they can find so as to keep the technology out of Morden's hands. After battling their way through hoards of Morden's soldiers, the duo eventually face off against Morden himself, in a heavily armored helicopter. After defeating the helicopter and killing Morden, they destroy his base of operations. In an epilogue, one of Morden's men is shown throwing a paper airplane from a cliff face. As the credits roll, the plane flies across the various levels of the game, before disappearing into outer space. (Wikipedia, 2013)

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Puzzle Bobble

Puzzle Bobble is a classic arcade game developed by Taito Corporation released in 1994. With a genre of puzzle game, the player should think carefully and make good decisions in order to finish the game.

Interactivity

This game provides a pointer for the player used to aims and fires bubbles upwards. The colour of the bubble to be fired is generated randomly. However, the game will provide the colour of the next bubble every time the player fires a bubble. Moreover, every fired bubble will travel in the straight line from the pointer and will end up in touching another bubble on the screen or the top of the screen. Otherwise, the fired bubble bounces off when it hits one of the side wall on the screen.

Concept

Every time the player start the game, there is a playing box contains a random sets of coloured balls which supposed to be bubbles. At the bottom of the screen, there is a pointer for the player to fire bubble. Similar with other arcade games, scoring system is also included in this game which leads experienced players to acquire score as high as possible. If the player hits two or more bubbles with the same colour, it will popped up and gives 10 points each. However, if the player popped these bubbles with another pair of bubbles hanging from popped bubbles (as known as dropped bubbles), the score given to the player will be bigger. One dropped bubble scores 20, two scores 40, three scores 80. Therefore, the score is doubled for every bubble dropped. Bonus points can also be awarded to the player if a round cleared in 5 seconds or less.

Settings

The player can also play two player mode which enables the player to compete with another person. In this mode, there is no round and the game finished when any bubble crossed to the bottom line on one of the player's arena. When a player removes bubbles on his/ her arena, these bubbles will be passed on the opponent's arena.

Goal

The objective of this game is to removes all bubbles on the arena without any bubble crossed the bottom line on the screen that leads to game over. Moreover, the player must finish all the rounds and try to get a score as high as possible.

Challenge

If the player remains idle when playing the game, the pointer will automatically fire bubble(s). After several shots from the player, the ceiling of the arena drops gradually along with all the bubbles within the arena. The closer the bubble(s) to the bottom line of the screen, the faster the music plays which intends to frighten the player. Furthermore, the difficulty of the game increases every time the player cleared the arena by creating a new pattern of bubbles.

A.G.E. Framework

Game Design Workshop - Week 3

This week challenge is taken from Brenda Brathwaite's blog.

In summary, this challenge gives the easiest way to design a game. From the instructions given, it tells us to create a race game. Basically, player(s) begin at a point (start point), and should reach the end point (goal point).

Rad Racer

Because my group members only had a digital dimensional dices, and were provided a paper with a honeycomb pattern, we made a race board game. It is obvious that honeycomb looks like hexagon which has 6 sides. Therefore, my team decided to use only 6-dimensional dice.

After brainstorming for a while, we come up with an idea in which the player(s) started from the bottom of the paper, and should reach the top of the paper.

Game's Map

For the movement, we decided to use 3 of the upper hexagon's edges since the remaining edges leads to backward movement. By using 6-dimensional dice, the number's given to the player will move him/ her as follows:

Player's Movement

Moreover, every player's movement will leave its previous trace(s). Therefore, the player has a head and a tail which is similar with a snake game.

There are only two rules on this game, consists of:

1. If the player's head hits other player's head, the other player's head must be moved to the start point.

Player 2 hits Player 1's head, which leads Player 1's head back to the start point

2. If the player's head hits other player's tail, the player cannot move to its place. However, the player can leap other player's tail by having double movement (dice number: 4,5,6).

 Player 1 leaps Player 2's tail by having dice number 6

3. If the player's head is on the left/ right edge of the game's map, half of its head is placed on its current position, while the other half is placed on the other edge. Therefore, the player's next movement will either go on the left edge, or the right edge of the game's map.

To make the game more challenging, there are several items spread randomly within the game's blocks. These items can give either advantages or disadvantages to the player which step on the item's block.

Game's Item List

Kirby's Adventure

Kirby's Adventure is a NES game developed by HAL Laboratory released in 1993. This game is a platform game which makes the player to jump his/ her avatar to and from suspended platforms and/or over obstacles in order to continue the game.

Interactivity

Every game must be interactive to play in order to attract people play its game. In this case, Kirby's Adventure provides many actions for the player. By pressing left or right keys twice, the player's avatar will dash to the desired location. Moreover, the avatar will slide down to a given direction by pressing 'A' button and down key. If the player press up key, the avatar will fly over stuff! Furthermore, the avatar will inhale enemies in front of it when the player pressed 'B' button. The avatar can also take various enemy's power within the game by pressing down while inhaled an enemy.

Settings

There is no settings in this game for the player to choose difficulty, single or multi player game. However, the player can choose his/ her saved game from the main menu of the game. If there is no saved slot, the player must choose any of the three slots available. By doing this, the player will start a new game and the game will be automatically saved after each level passed.

Concept

The game consists of several worlds, which contains either regular level, boss fight, or world to world warp star door. Sometimes, the player may be given mini-game which provide benefits to its avatar such as health items, or certain powers. During the game, the player may attack enemies and have to proceed to the end of level until the final level of the game.

Goal

The objective of this game is to complete all levels given. Optionally, the player could acquire score as high as possible, and complete all the mini-games.

Challenge

By watching the introduction tutorial from the start of the game, it can be predictable that the game will have a long story to finish the game. The player must reach the end of each level without being killed by enemies. When the character almost reach the end of the level, it will be given a boss which must be killed to finish the level. Since the story is a bit too long, the developer of this game gives health bar and life's token which can be increased. Therefore, the player's avatar will not be easily killed by the enemies yet the player still have to complete every level within the game.

Story

After Kirby wakes up from his after-lunch nap without having any dreams, he goes to the Fountain of Dreams to investigate. In doing so, he discovers that King Dedede has stolen the Star Rod, the source of power to the Fountain of Dreams, and broken it into seven pieces, giving six fragments to his allies, Whispy Woods, Paint Roller, Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright, Kracko, Heavy Mole, and Meta Knight, also keeping one for himself. Without the Star Rod, all of the inhabitants of Dream Land are becoming restless and unable to dream. Kirby decides to track down the fragments of the Star Rod and bring them back to the Fountain of Dreams in order to restore everyone's dreams. (Wikipedia, 2013)

A.G.E. Framework

In conclusion, A.G.E. Framework can be made from above. This framework list action, gameplay, and experience received by the player when playing this game.