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Game idea 3:

My third and final game idea would be a first person shooter, based more on console games such as Goldeneye. But a twisted version of this formula, in it- you play as the big 'Bond' style villain. Spies have been sent to your facility to assassinate you and you have to defend yourself against the attack. There would be waves of generic npcs attacking you with a boss battle at the end, with each wave getting progressively more difficult. You have access to a great variety of weapons, which you can acquire from each boss fight. These get more and more ludicrous, allowing you to pick up and shoot a shark with a laser. Maybe have a similar style of comedy to the Borderlands games? I would also implement a unique ability from the Max Payne game franchise, that allows the player to slow down time, and line up their shots. Something similar to the bullet time from The Matrix movies.

The player would control it with either a joy stick, or light gun peripheral, similar to classic arcade shooter games such as House of The Dead and Time Crisis 2. You'll need quick reaction times, and aim to take out each villain before they kill you.

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Game Idea 2:

Arcade style racing game, with similar gamplay to Outrun 2 and Mario Kart Arcade. You would play as a biker gang, with each of the bikers working as a segment of health. There are 7 bikers in total (=7 hits the play can take), when a player collides with another vehicle, they lose one member. The goal is to make it to the end with all 7 members, and the best possible score time. The cars would be rival gangs trying to stop them reaching the next checkpoint.

I would want the gameplay to feel similar to Outrun, where you are moving fast, whist simultaneously avoiding an abundance of vehicles. The game would also feature pixel art as a tribute to the games from this era.

I would like the game to be controlled by a bike styled peripheral like the one below, so that the player could lean left or right in order to steer the direction of the bokes- allowing them to feel more immersed.

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Character & Setting

My game is essentially Geometry Dash where the protagonist is a solitary cube trying to make is way to the end of a course while avoiding an abundance of obstacles along the way.

The setting is essentially a dystopian city that is relatively alternate to ours where the sky is always red because of a blood moon which is eternally active.

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Mind Map

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Mood Board

All three of these games use the same control scheme of a single button or key pressed, each game is essentially a side-scroller.

They are all endless-runners except for Geometry Dash which has a selection of replayable levels within which you race to the end avoiding obstacles placed in your path.

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Respawn

I used the above video to give me a helping hand with the respawn feature within my game.

I first created a new blueprint for the respawn point and made it hidden in game, then I made a new event and got an "all actors of class" node and cast that to the BpSpawnPosition, and then from there to the ThirdPersonGameMode, then I had to come off of there with a "get gamemode" node, then cast from the gamemode to a "Respawn Player" node and then finally connect that to the SpawnPosition via a "get actor transform" node.

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Fighting Games

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat is a series of Fighters where you play quick and fun rounds of Kombat against opponents, each character you can play as have exclusive and distinctive move-sets and abilities with which you use to defeat your opponents with.

It was developed and published by Midway Games.

Tekken

Tekken is again like Mortal Kombat where it is a series of Fighters with quick rounds of combat and an array of characters with unique move-sets and abilities.

It was however developed and published by a different company: BandaiNamco- a Japanese company.

Street Fighter

Street Fighter is in the exact same boat as the games mentioned above, like them it is a series of fighting games, the only contrast between them all are the dissimilarities between the playable characters within each respective franchise.

Like Tekken it was developed and published by a Japanese studio, though a different one at that, Street Fighter was developed and published by Capcom.

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Brawlers

Bad Street Brawler

Bad Street Brawler is a a game from 1987 developed by Beam Software.

In the game you go through different stages beating up enemy gangsters along the way while assuming the role of Duke who is described as a former punk rocker and "world's coolest" martial artist.

Throughout the game you take on a range of enemies such as Gorillas and dwarves who throw hammers at the player, the game has 15 stages to get through.

The game was not received well, it has even been put on a list of "20 worst games of all time".

Mayhem Brawler

Mayhem Brawler is a side-scrolling "beat 'em up" developed by Hero Concept with elements of a " '90s arcade spirit" and fantasy, the game has two modes: Solo and Couch Co-Op which you can play with up to 4 friends.

The game has five playable characters against 30 mobs, including 12 unique bosses, it also has three unique and alternate endings, whichever one you get is determined by your actions and choices during the course of the game.

Smash Club

Smash Club is a brawling game developed and published by Four Fats and Mooff Games.

The game has fifty playable characters with which you can form a vigilante gang to rival other gangs throughout the city.

You can use various items such as pipes, bombs and even smash telephone booths over opponents' heads.

The game has local and online multiplayer, you can play with up to four players using local.

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Racing Games

Burnout Paradise

Burnout Paradise is a racing/slam-racing game developed by Criterion Games and published by EA.

It is a game where in order to secure your rightful place in first you have to take out the competition by ramming them off the road and totaling their rides.

The vehicle options come in four categories: Cars, Bikes, Legendary Cars and Toy Cars, there is also the Cops & Robbers pack if you own the dlc.

The game was well received upon release winning several awards in 2008, it is regarded by some as "one of the greatest videogames ever made" a statement of which i can agree, it is my all-time favorite racing game just because of the chaos you can cause and the objects you can destroy is immense.

ATV Slam Racing

ATV Slam Racing is a stunt-filled thrill-fest of a game in which players must race their way to the finish line while pulling stunts, tricks and avoiding obstacles in your path.

It was developed and published by SEGA.

Mario Kart Arcade

Mario Kart Arcade is a free-for-all racing game developed and published by BandaiNamco where you compete against a whole host of opponents to complete laps and finish the races in first place.

On the tracks there are special items you can pick up and use, some can be used against your opponents while others can give your vehicle a temporary speed boost which can better your chances of winning and give you a bit of an advantage.

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Shooters/Rail Shooters

Overkill

Overkill is a vertical scrolling shooter made by Tech-Noir and released by Epic Games (known as Epic MegaGames in 1992).

The objective of the game is to travel to outlying planets that have been taken over by alien forces in dire need of liberating.

The ship has some basic needs such as fuel, shields, and a weapon but it can be upgraded by picking up various items.

Being hit by projectiles or running into enemy ships and walls damages the ship. Once the shield meter is depleted, the ship is destroyed and costs a life.

The House Of The Dead

The House Of The Dead is a horror shooter from 1996 developed and released by Sega, it sees you take on the role of two Agents as they take on waves of undead creatures/zombie created by a mad scientist.

When the player takes damage or kills a civilian a health point is taken away, the player can find health packs to regain health, when a level is complete extra health can be awarded judging by how many hostages were rescued.

The game has a decision making function where your decisions shape the way your experience pans out, if you make bad decisions there will be dire consequences to come, maybe not straight away but they will come nonetheless.

The game has a grand total of 3 endings, whichever one you get is determined by your score at the end of the day.

Crisis Zone

Crisis Zone is a direct spin-off of the Time Crisis Arcade Shooters, it was developed by Namco and published Namco and Sony Computer Entertainment.

In Crisis Zone the player assumes the role of leader of an elite anti-terrorist Special Tactics Force who are tasked with taking down The United Resistance Defense Army who have taken over a complex a day before its grand opening.

Crisis Zone is the first Time Crisis game to allow the players to select between 3 distinct levels, when all three are complete the player will then be able to move on to the final level to beat the game.

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Classic High Score Arcade Games

Pac-Man:

Pac-man, transliterated as "puck-man" in the Japanese industry, is a 1980 maze action video game developed and published by Namco for arcade machines.

In the NA industry, the company Midway Manufacturing started developing the game as per agreement with Namco of America. In the game, the player controls the character (pac-man) where the objective is to "eat" all the dots inside of a maze while avoiding four differentiating colours.

Game development started in early 1979, headed by Toru Iwatani with an initial 9-man team. Iwatani wanted to create a single game that appealed to both genders; this was because most games were catered towards the themes of war and sports.

The Japanese title "Puck-man" roughly translated to "paku paku taberu", meaning "to gobble something up"; for the NA release, this was changed to "Pac-man".

Defender:

Defender, demonstrated in late 1980 and released in 1981, is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Williams Electronics.

The game's setting is dependent on version, where the player could be playing on either an unnamed planet or city; Being a shooter, the objective is to fend off waves of alien combatants while protecting a group of astronauts. Heading game development was Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Jarvis' first video game was Defender, and it drew inspiration from the titles Space Invaders and Asteroids.

It became available to the Japanese market via Taito. Defender is considered to be within the ranks of the "golden-age" of arcade games, selling over 55,000 individual units and becoming the company's best selling game and one of the highest grossing games ever.

Galaga

Galaga is a 1981 fixed shooter produced by Namco and released in North America by Midway Manufacturing. It is a game where the player pilots a starship which moves side-to-side on the bottom of the screen, the main purpose of the game is to fend off endless waves of enemies with the built in blasters of the ship, racking up a high-score while trying to survive the onslaught.

Some enemies can capture a player's ship via a tractor beam (which pulls them in holding them captive), which can be rescued to transform the player into a "dual fighter" which is two ships merged together to give the player additional firepower

This game's concept is relatively similar to that of Defender and Space Invaders.

"Although early location tests were unsuccessful, Galaga received critical acclaim and went on to become one of the most successful arcade games"-Wikipedia.

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What is an arcade game? & its history

https://www.betson.com/the-history-of-arcade-games/

Both articles mention Pong which released in the '70s and that it essentially kickstarted the Arcade Gaming Industry and gave it a boost, there were a few games beforehand but they weren't as popular or successful. It was made to draw women into Arcade Gaming as well as men as its predecessors were shooters & sports games which didn't really appeal to women during that day and age, from there iconic arcade games such as Pac-Man, Donkey Kong & Space Invaders were brought about for our entertainment.

A decade later we were introduced to an all-new arcade gaming format: Fighters, Street Fighter is the game that gave this new genre a jumpstart in the Arcade Gaming Industry, fighters were fun to play because it had short and entertaining rounds of combat where you can fight your friends or against the AI. A few years later in 1992 we became acquainted with the very first Mortal Kombat which brought about a new era of fighting games where we were faced with a never before seen feature such as gore, with the addition of this brand new feature the Mortal Kombat franchise gradually became more violent with the executions and fatalities, the most iconic feature of the franchise is the "Finish Him" voiceover when you perform a fatality on your poor unfortunate opponent.

Arcade games started to become popular in the late 1970s but the 1980s were the main highlight of the Arcade genre.

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Spikes kill player

I added a new blueprint for the spikes and then made the object into a cone stretched into a spike, then within the code I added a feature that would apply damage to the character when it come into contact with the spike, for this to work I had to set up a collision box, once that was set up I then added a destroy actor node which allows the character to be killed by the collision with the spikes, I also had to set up a health node and a death node within the character's coding so it would take the damage and die.

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Background in game world

I imported my background image into Unreal Engine and made it a material, within the code I added a panning feature so it would give it a panoramic view which allowed it to spin and play it like a continuously moving background, then I just implemented it onto the back wall.

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Background

I used the paintbrush, paint bucket and shape tools to create my unique background image.

I started by making her background red, then I added black rectangles in to make different sized building silhouettes and a dark road with the dotted white line via the shape tool within Photoshop, I then used the shape tool again but this time to create two circles, I used the paint bucket tool to make each circle a different shade of red and made the darker of the two overlap the lighter one to give a unique and cool effect of a blood moon.