Week 3 Lab

With the inspirations of the emojis provided I came up with more ideas:

Originally I thought I'd lean towards the snake-like game but with the emojis provided I came up with a couple of ideas I like a lot more. At first I saw some of the nautical themed emojis like the ships, orange life buoy, and fish and thought maybe snake but with a leviathan snake monster that had to take out ships for points. But then I thought that I really wanted to change the layout of the board and it'd be hard to encapsulate a monster like that (it could easily break anything meant to kept it within the border of the stage). So I looked at the emoji list to see what stood out. I then saw that the chicken had a variety for life stages in emoji form. The following list is a quick run down for my thought process in turning them into a game:

Chicken Pen

• The restrictions of the map could be made from a fence.
• Collect chicks, eggs and turn them into the henhouse.
• Predators could be foxes, wolf.
• Predators go towards the eggs and chicks maybe based off of life stage.
• Chicken feed (wheat, catapillars, ants) to speed up. This could speed up the chicken by allowing it to move more than the predators.
• Maybe as chicks grow up add lives.
• Checkpoints maybe?
• Daymode and darkmode? Might add if I need to make the game more complex.
• Lightbulb at night so you can see the map.
• Have to turn lightbulb on to see predators.

While looking for a fence to border the layout I saw cars, pizza, gas pump, money, trees, and houses and had a backup idea. I could take some of the ideas from the chicken pen and create a more in-depth version but with pizza delivery. One of the issues I ran into with this idea though was the idea of traffic lights, stop signs, possible police idea if going too fast, gas being added to the game could be too complex since its another way the player could lose, and how intensive the maps would be(would they be randomly generated because if so that'd get really complicated). These are the quick ideas I had come up:

Pizza Delivery

• Change the layout of the neighborhood.
• Tip goes down when taking too long.
• Obstacles such as cars on road.
• Score is tallied to the money you own.
• Score goes negative then you lose.
• Also lose when you run out of gas.
• Breaktime "prepare round" which would allow the player to get gas.

Overall

I'm definitely leaning towards the chicken idea as the more I thought about the pizza delivery game the more I realized it could be a little too complex. I also really like the chicken idea as I think it can be cute. Could add personality to the game by having a backstory as to why this chicken was chosen to aid the eggs and chicks.