Survival horror
Assignment deliverables?
The documents?
Who is going to do what on the document?
How big is the document going to be
What format? {word, notepad)
Presentation?
The presentation?
What is the best format for the presentation?
Length?
Visual aids?
Who will do what?
Physical aids?
The game?
The competition
What are the competitors? (survival horror genre)
How will our game be different? (usp)
What will be similar?
The game story
The length of the game/story
Games structure?
How much will the narrative infringe upon the game?
Main character gender?
Good or bad ending?
Multiple endings?
Inclusion of readable books/Diaries/videos left behind?
Surroundings?
Background story of enemies
Background story of Npcs (friendly and enemies)
Game mechanics?
Items?
Amounts of items within the level?
Rarity?
Locations of items?
How many items can you hold?
What kind of items?
Keys?
Amount of uses?
Power ups?
Items used to progress the story?
What are their effects?
Market that sells items?
How much do items cost?
Looting system?
Characters?
What will they look like?
Gender?
Customization?
Amount of characters?
Character interaction?
Personality?
Character role within the game?
Can you kill them?
Abilities?
Speech? (are they going to talk to you)
Can they help you?
Enemies?
Strength?
Looks?
Sounds?
How many within each level?
Type of enemies?
Spawning points?
What will they be?
How fast will they move?
Will the enemies have weapons?
Levels?
Weather?
What will the levels look like?
Time?
Scale of the level?
Destructible environment?
Linearity? (linear vs. open ended)
Puzzles?
What puzzles will there be
Frequency of the puzzles
Realism?
Character and enemies movement and speed?
Frequency of supplies
Heads up display?
Health bars?
Crosshairs?
Ammunition?
Will there be a head up display at all?
What will it look like?
Game visuals?
What will the enemies and characters look like? E.g.
- Will they look like humans, mutants, aliens etc?
- Will they look more fantasy based, than realistic?
Gore?
- Will the game contain a lot of blood?
- Would the main character be able to remove enemy limbs?
Setting? Environment, Lighting
- Will the levels be dark and moody?
- Will the levels seem claustrophobic or more open spaced?
- Will there be any form of natural lighting in the game?(sunlight)
- If set in a building, then what type of building would it be? (School, hospital, churches).
What would the items look like?
- Will the items have an ancient or present day look to it? (E.g. keys that open doors, will they be big + heavy like old Victorian keys, or small and portable like present day keys)
- Will the health items be basic (medic pack) or will it be something unusual (elixir or syringe).
Camera system used within the game?
- Will it be a fixed camera?
- Will the camera be close behind the character or quite far away?
- Will the camera have any effects.
Game sound?
Enemy identification
Weapon sounds
Enemy sounds?
What type of soundtrack?
Background sound effects {weather}
Communication
Game Format
What console?
Unsolved?
What is a survival horror?
How will our game scare the player?
What type of enemies?
Will inventory screen?
Fighting system within the game? (weapons)
Camera system used within the game?
Shop elements within the game?
Items?
Learning curve? Difficulty.
