Text and Drive game Breakdown

Text and drive

• A first person perspective from the inside of the car as the driver (3D)
• The player has to steer the car with the numpad and text his girlfriend with the keyboard while using the mouse to look
• There is a clingy girlfriend who keeps texting you as you drive and you must respond fast
enough or be dumped
• While texting a post effect blurs the road as you focus on the phone
• You must navigate traffic and obsticles to survive
• Your “score” is based on the number of texts you send as well as the distance you travel
• To reply to your girlfriend there is a template response which you must type correctly, as the
game progresses the complexity of the responses increases and
• Start, pause and end gui are all within the phone

Experiential Aims

We aim to provide the player with a unique challenge/simulation experience 
challenging the players reaction speed, multitasking and typing skills.

Game Rules

The game has 2 end condition rules miss 2 texts from your girlfriend and she dumps you and you throw the phone into your speedometer from pure rage at what a bitch she is OR you crash your car into another car or obstetrical and you crash and your phone is embedded into the speedometer from the force of the crash both leading to the players end score and options to play again displayed on screen.

Systems

1. car control
2. switch focus
3. text input
4. pause menu
5. start menu
6. end game
7. tutorial
8. odometer
9. cars AI
10. scripted SMS

Conflict / Why its Fun

conflict is created in our game by giving the player 2 obviously counter productive tasks that they need to balance in order to continue and get a larger score. Driving means you cant see what your texting and you inevitably make spelling mistakes (which you tight ass bitch girlfriend hates) and pulling up your phone obscures your driving view making it easier to screw up driving.

its fun because its a challenge and it has a quirky humor.

Goals

the games goals are firstly to get the high score, maintain control as long as possible and also unwind the story unfolding between you and your (demon harpy from the pits of hell) girlfriend.

Story / Gameplay Outline

start the game you are greeted by a loading screen of a mock iphone or galexy or whatever also the loading screen for the game as your phone boots up it takes you to the start menu a bunch of apps (start menu) giving you options of start, info on the game & how to play.

starting the game you are prompted to type out a text to your girlfriend "hey :)" after that you get a text from your service provider the screen that tells you "numpad enter switches between drive and phone mode, 1=left, 2=slow down and 3=right esc=Pause NO REPLY" effectively pushing you straight into the game and giving you all the information needed to start playing.

The game ends when you either crash into another car or meet up with your girlfriend and she throws away your phone because, you guessed it. shes a bitch.

Mechanics

1. Car Controller
2. Texting
3. Switching focus 

Demographic

12 and up, anyone who can type and has a sense of humor. mild swearing.

Console

PC

Game Prototyping

polished game ideas from our awesome TEAM TACO's prototyping week.

Magic Pet Shop Escape

• save magic animals and help each other escape from the wizards pet shop to maul him after trying to burning it down for insurance money
• play as different animals with unique controls and abilities to escape the inferno!
• 3D 3rd person cutesy art style 
• save different animals to use them by opening their cages, switch through different animals to solve puzzles
• dog: super strength (push cages)
• rabbit: ice breath (hold off fire for small amount of time)
• cat: telepathy (scout the puzzle/maze)
• animals that survive try to maul a wizard
• gameplay style is akin to "push box"

Taco Tactics

• Grow your taco business from the ground up, use advanced marketing techniques, espionage and good ol' fashion delicious tacos to put your rivals out of business and become the most gargatuously mammoth taco company of all time
• 2D isometric strategy game
• Ruthless AI opponents
• be the first to make 1 million dollars profit to win!
• hire taco vendors to move more product and take revenue away from rival taco vendors
• street thugs to pester rival vendors and protect your own
• cooks to increase the deliciousness and demand of your tacos
• and spies to steal taco recipes and intel from rival companies
• build various buildings to research recipes, sales techniques and upgrade your units

Flock of Life

• Lead your flock of homing pigeons to relative safely with your pigeon (cursor) avoiding obstacles on the way in an Apocoliptic Hellstorm
• pick up stray pigeons to your flock and avoid losing your pigeons to meteors, hell deamons and giant floating Beiber head (the obvious bringer of the apocolypse)
• top down "galaga"-ish view but with awesome crisp 3D graphics
• Epic Environments 
• attack enemies by forming formations (scissors, gun, ect) that are more powerful depending on your flock size

Text and drive

• A first person perspective from the inside of the car as the driver (3D)
• The player has to steer the car with the numpad or arrow keys
• There is a clingy girlfriend who keeps texting you as you drive and you must respond fast enough
• While texting the road blurs out as you focus on the phone
• You must dodge traffic to survive
• Your “score” is based on the number of texts you send as well as the distance you travel
• To reply to your girlfriend there is a template response which you must type correctly, as the game progresses some of the characters are missing and dificulty of responses increase
• Start and pause menu are in the phones menu, end screen is a car crash