Idea for a New Game

Stimulus
Original Intellectual Property (IP)
Original Intellectual Property is an idea that is completely my own. The idea could
take inspiration from other games and franchises but must still be my own idea all
together and an idea that I own.

Franchised Intellectual Property (IP)

Franchised Intellectual Property is an idea that has been franchised. So if I was to
use this brief I would take a game I was going to franchise, for example a Franchised
IP would be using Mario but giving it a new theme, setting, or perhaps even a
different gameplay style than the previous games.
I will be choosing to go with Franchised Intellectual Property when I create my game
idea.

Genre
Sports
The sports genre will apply
to any game that is based
on a sport. Most known
sports have been covered
by the video game
industry, games like NBA
2K16 and FIFA cover both
Basketball and Football.
There are also sports
games like UFC 2 that
cover Boxing. Focusing on
FIFA, FIFA is the most
popular sports game in the world with their newest game FIFA 17 having their sales
turn out 18% higher than FIFA 16 (previous game) in the first week of sales and
breaking UK sales record. FIFA 17 takes all of the professional football players and
puts them into one game making them all playable against other teams. Most of the
time it is football fans that love to buy and play this game, and as there is so many
football fans FIFA has lots of game sales around the world.
Adventure
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a
protagonist in an interactive story driven by
exploration and puzzle-solving. As this genre bases
its game a lot on story, it means that it can
draw heavily from a lot of other narrative
based media such as films and books.
Games like Firewatch, The Telltale Walking
Dead series, Grim Fandango, and The
Witness are all adventure games. Each of
these games have a completely different
style of gameplay as Firewatch is a first person
adventure game which tells the story of a Shoshone National Forest fire lookout
named Henry in 1989, following the Yellowstone fires of 1988. A month after his first
day at work, strange things begin happening to both
him and his supervisor Delilah, which connects to a
conspired mystery that happened years ago. Henry
interacts with Delilah using a walkie- talkie,
choosing from dialog options to communicate.
His exchanges with Delilah inform the process by
which their relationship is developed.
On the other hand The Walking Dead
Series developed by Telltale Games,
the game takes place in the same
fictional world as the comic, with
events occurring shortly after the onset of the zombie apocalypse in Georgia.
However, most of the characters are original to the game, which centers on
university professor and convicted criminal Lee Everett, who helps to rescue and
subsequently care for a young girl named
Clementine. This game does not emphasise
puzzle-solving as it focuses on story and
character development. The Witness
however is a puzzle adventure game,
experienced in the first-person view. The
player, as an unnamed character, explores
an island with numerous structures and
natural formations. The island is roughly
divided into eleven sections, arranged
around a mountain that represents the ultimate goal for the player. The game has
around 650 puzzles in total and also has an optional set of harder puzzles known as
The Challenge.
Action
The action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges,
including handeye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse
subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games and platform games which are
widely considered the most important action games, though some real-time
strategy games are also considered to be action games.

In an action game, the player typically controls the avatar of a protagonist. The
avatar must navigate a level, collecting objects, avoiding obstacles, and battling
enemies with various attacks. At the end of a level or group of levels, the player
must often defeat a large boss
enemy that is larger and more
challenging than other enemies.
Enemy attacks and obstacles
deplete the avatar's health and
lives, and the game is over when
the player runs out of lives.
Alternatively, the player wins the
game by finishing a sequence of
levels. But some action games,
usually arcade games, are
unbeatable and have an
indefinite number of levels; and the player's only goal is to maximize their score by
collecting objects and defeating enemies. A great example of an action game is
Dishonored 2, The series takes place in the fictional Empire of the Isles with the
majority of Dishonored 2 set in the coastal city of Karnaca and is set fifteen years
after the events of the first game. After Empress Emily Kaldwin is deposed by an
"otherworldly usurper", the player may choose between playing as either Emily or
her bodyguard and father Corvo Attano as they attempt to reclaim the throne. Both
Emily and Corvo employ their own array of supernatural abilities. They can
alternatively decide to forfeit them altogether. There are a multitude of ways to
succeed in each given mission, from stealth to purposeful violent conflict.

Simulation
A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of video games,
generally designed to closely simulate aspects of a real or fictional reality. A
simulation game attempts to copy various activities from real life in the form of a
game for various purposes such as training, analysis, or prediction. Usually there
are no strictly defined goals in the game, with players instead allowed to freely
control a character. Well-known examples are war games, business games, and role
play simulation. Farming Simulator 2017 is a game where the players are able to
farm, breed livestock, grow crops and sell all assets created from farming. The game
has sold over four million copies. In career mode, the player takes on the role of a
farmer. Their task is to expand on their "dated" farm and machinery. The main goal
 of the player is to harvest their crops and
sell them in order to expand their farming
enterprise (e.g. machines, fields, animals
and buildings). The player is free to explore,
grow from their choice of several crop types,
and invest their money in additional fields
and equipment. Livestock may be
purchased, and then it is up to the player to
care for the animals.

Strategy
Strategy video games are a genre of video game that emphasize skillful thinking
and planning to achieve victory. Specifically, a player must plan a series of actions
against one or more opponents, and the reduction of enemy forces is usually a goal.
Victory is achieved through superior planning, and the element of chance takes a
smaller role. In most strategy video games, the player is given a godlike view of the
game world, and indirectly controls game units under their command. Thus, most
strategy games involve elements of
warfare to varying degrees, and
feature a combination of tactical and
strategic considerations. In addition to
combat, these games often challenge
the player's ability to explore, or
manage an economy. XCOM 2 is a
turn-based tactics video game
developed by Firaxis Games and
published by 2K Games. XCOM 2 is the
sequel to 2012's reboot of the series,
XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Taking place
20 years after the events of Enemy Unknown, it follows the continuity that XCOM, a
military organization trying to fight off an alien invasion, has lost the war, and is
now a resistance force against their occupation of Earth.

Puzzle
Puzzle video games are a genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The
types of puzzles can test many problem-solving skills including logic, pattern
recognition, sequence solving, and word completion. The player may have unlimited
time or attempts to solve a puzzle, or there may be simple puzzles made difficult by
having to complete them in real-time. Professor Layton is a puzzle adventure game
series for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS developed by Level-5. The first three
games follow Professor Hershel Layton and Luke Triton's adventures together. The
subsequent three games and the film are prequels, and focus on how Luke and
Layton met, and their "original" adventures. Each title is based in a series of puzzles
and mysteries given by the citizens of towns that the main characters visit. It is not
necessary to solve all the puzzles to progress, but some are mandatory, and at
certain points in the game a minimum number of puzzles must be solved before the
story can continue.

Role Play
is
a

video game genre where the player

controls the actions of a character
(and/or several party members)
immersed in some well-defined world.
Many role-playing video games have
origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games (Including Dungeons & Dragons) and
use much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. Fallout 4 is an
action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published
by Bethesda Softworks for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Released worldwide on November 10, 2015, it is the fifth major installment in the
Fallout series. The game is set within an open world post-apocalyptic environment
that encompasses the city of Boston and the surrounding Massachusetts region
known as "The Commonwealth". The main story takes place in the year 2287, ten
years after the events of Fallout 3 and 210 years after "The Great War" that caused
catastrophic nuclear devastation across the United States.

Management
A management game is a video game where you take on the role of a
investments you could either
manager within a company or sports team.
Management game can also link in with
simulation games like how Sims has both
aspects to its gameplay. Football Manager is
a game where you take on the role of
managing a football team and its players.
The game plays through match seasons and
depending on your choice of players and
do well in the tournament or not do so well.
Educational
Educational games are games explicitly designed with educational purposes, or
which have incidental or secondary educational value. All types of games may be
used in an educational environment. Educational games are games that are
designed to help people to learn about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce
development, understand a historical event or
culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they
play. One of the most popular educational video
games is Reader Rabbit. Reader Rabbit is an
edutainment software franchise created in
1986 by The Learning Company. This series
currently makes up the greater part of a
franchise of grade-based and subject-based
titles, where the games for infancy through second grade feature Reader
Rabbit. The games for third grade through
sixth grade instead feature The ClueFinders.

The first game in the series taught language arts, featuring a variety of simple
games designed to teach schoolchildren basic reading and spelling skills. Originally,
the title character's name was changed to reflect a change in subject, as with Math
Rabbit, but it has apparently since been decided to retain the character's original
name regardless of the subject area covered by a particular game.

Viral Marketing
Viral marketing is any marketing technique
that uses web sites to other sites or users,
creating a potential growth in the message's
visibility and effect. One example of
successful viral marketing is Outlook (now
owned by Microsoft) promotes its service and
its own advertisers' messages in every user's
e-mail notes. Or in other words, viral
marketing, viral advertising, or marketing
buzz are buzzwords referring
to marketing techniques that use pre-
existing social networking services and other technologies to try to produce
increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as
product sales) through self-replicating viral processes.
Market Research
Audience
Age:
As the video games industry is a worldwide industry means that to further
companies sales they would have to make games that appeal to all different ages
as then more people would buy games. Over the years games have adapted to
different age groups and restrictions. PEGI is the European video game content
rating system. PEGI has five age categories.

3: Suitable for all ages. May contain very mild violence in an appropriate
context for younger children, but neither bad language nor frightening
content is allowed.

7: Suitable for ages 7 and older. May contain mild or unrealistic violence (e.g.
violence in a cartoon context), or elements that can be frightening to younger
children.

12: Suitable for ages 12 and older. May contain violence in either a fantasy
context or a sporting action, profanity, mild sexual references or innuendo, or
gambling.

16: Suitable for ages 16 and older. May contain explicit or realistic-looking
violence, strong language, sexual references or content, gambling, or
encouragement of drug use.

18: Unsuitable for persons under 18. May contain extreme or graphic
violence, including "violence towards defenseless people" and "multiple,
motiveless killing", strong language, strong sexual content, gambling, drug
glamorisation, or discrimination ("stereotyping likely to cause hatred").

Having to stick to these ratings whilst trying to produce a good game can be hard as
most of the age restricted content is the content that actually sells in video games.

Gender:
Both males and females play video games. Through gender stereotyping it makes it
seem that males play video games more prominently than women, when in fact
both genders play video games equally as it
depends on the persons mind set whether they
like to play video games or not. Making a game
appeal to a certain gender may seem easy as
people may say you could make a video game
appeal to a girl by making the game all pink and
flowery. But this may cause controversy in gaming
communities that a certain games developer
wasnt considering the ethics of the game and that
people may find it offensive that they chose to put
flowers into a female based game.

Core:
A core or mid-core gamer is a player
with a wider range of interests than a
casual gamer and is more likely to
enthusiastically play different types of
games, but without the amount of time
spent and sense of competition of a
hardcore gamer. The mid-core gamer
enjoys games but may not finish every
game they buy, doesn't have time for
long MMO quests, and is a target consumer. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated
that they designed the Wii U to cater to core gamers who are in between the casual
and hardcore categories.

Casual:
The term "casual gamer" is often used for
gamers who primarily play casual games,
but can also refer to gamers who play less
frequently than other gamers. Casual
gamers may play games designed for ease
of gameplay, or play more involved games
in short sessions, or at a slower pace than
hardcore gamers. The types of game that
casual gamers play vary, and they are less
likely to own a dedicated video game
console. Notable examples of casual games
include The Sims and Nintendogs.

Gaming Communities:
 Gaming communities can be developed
through many multiplayer games like
World of Warcraft as it involves a lot of
other players from around the world.
Within gaming communities gamers may
help each other with problems or
challenges within the game their
community is based around.

Preferred Game Genre:

The game genre I am going to base my game off is actually a sub category of the
Action genre which is Action-Adventure I will be franchising my game off the
Assassins Creed series.

Similar Games Already in The Market

As I am creating a franchised game this means that
I have based my game off of the Assassins Creed
series which has already been created. The genre
action-adventure has already produced some
similar games to my game idea, games like Prince
of Persia and the Infamous series with some of the
same gameplay elements.

Target Platform
Desktop Computer
Desktop computer gaming has become more and more popular over recent
years with games like World of
Warcraft and League of Legends
selling millions of copies. A desktop
gaming computer is much more
powerful than a normal computer as they
have to run computer games for a long
time. An example of a very good
gaming computer is the Chillblast
Fusion Catapult.
 Console
Consoles are the main platform of gaming
these days with recent consoles being
released like the PS4 Pro and XBOX One S.
The graphics and hardware within these
consoles gets better with every release. My
game idea was created with the platform as
a console as that is what most people play
games on.

Mobile Device
Games developed for mobile devices come in the form of
apps. Theyre are millions of different type of game apps like
Candy Crush Saga and Temple Run. The apps that are
developed for mobile devices are small games that are
considered to pass time and have a few simple levels or
objectives.

Television
A few years ago there were some games
developed that were playable using just
your TV like Sky games, there were
games that were based on gambling,
platforming, and even puzzle solving.
Nowadays technology has developed and
less people are using TV games.

Online
Some games are made to be free that you play
online like on websites like miniclip.com. This
website is probably the most well-known for its free
games and the mass of people that play them.