Proto - Game Prototype Final Phase
Proto is a decision making tribal survival game, consisting of evolutionary chapters. Depending upon performance and choices made by the player, deviations in evolution will occur. A communication system of grunts and gestures, along with food gathering and multiple threats will be a primary focus.
The game concept I developed centers around a prehistoric jungle scheme. A 3d open world jungle with river, fruit groves, canopies, and vantage points across the map. The play will start out each chapter in a new location of the jungle, and there will be no mini-map. The HUD will consist of the health and energy of each member in the player's tribe, and mouse-over indication of food, danger, communication, and general interaction. The art style will be dark jungle with thick canopy, but allowing for some sparse openings to let in light.
The idea of the game entails multiple levels of primate and slight variations in each depending upon the player's performance, communication, and decision making. At the start will be a gibbon-like primate with very few members of the tribe. Their specialty will be agility swinging between trees. In the later chapters, a larger tribe will exist and the primate more chimpanzee-like, with less agility and more offensive capacity. Enemies will include, but are not limited to: panthers, saber-tooth tigers, fire ants, enemy tribes, etc.
The main goal for surviving as a primate is of course, food. Fruits and nuts will be primarily the food source until later chapters, where depending on the choices made previously, carnivorousness and cannibalism will be available. Fruit and nut tree will not have an infinite course of food, but will grow back over time, causing a need to migrate. The dangerous animals throughout the jungle will be ever present, especially when sleeping, and tribe members may be picked off unknowingly. Communication and cooperation will be a necessity. Fighting other tribes and challenging tribe members for dominance will be prevalent.
