New Project

On monday we started a new project. Our new project is to design a game for the iPod, iPhone or iPad. 

So inspired by the idea of the new project i did a load of research over the last few days and found out that there are a few things that lead to popular game...

1. Create / choose your own character. 
2. Edit your characters appearance.
3. Have real time waiting eg. crops harvesting times, ect.
4. zombie game (not original but sells loads)
5. Simple is more, but very hard to find something catchy. eg. Angry Birds, Doodle Jump, ect.

These are just a few things i researched that created good games. But themes of games that are overly popular follow...

• Zombie games.
• Cafe games.
• Farm games.
• jump/platform games.
• ‘Flick’ games.
• Sports games
• Village games

And areas that dont have not been over used too much are...

• si-fi games.
• school based games.
• pokemon style games.
• Grand Theft Auto style games.

Anyways after evaluating the available possibilities, i figured out that the two area that are good areas to focus my game in are the school based game and the grand theft auto style games, pretty much free rome games. So i am thinking about combining the two and creating a school/GTA style game kind of like the PS2 game called ‘Bully’ but with a lot of differences. I still need to work out how it is going to work. but so far i have a few ideas.

• there will be a selection of starter characters.
• the idea is that you have just started school and you have to survive and become popular.
• there will be two different types of reputations you can work towards. Teacher/ parent reputation ( going to classes staying out of trouble increases this). And pupils reputation (doing stupid stuff in class and accepting and completing dares or challeneges)

So far i have done a few designs for the starter characters. They are as follows:-