Dead Run

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Dead Run

• James Kelly, Mike Papo, Josh Lovatt

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Basic Details

• Single Player
• Top Down Action game

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Summary

• The player controls a misunderstood zombie
  named Carl. Carl only wants to escape and
  survive. The only thing standing in his way are
  the humans who want to kill the zombie.
  Unfortunately, he can no longer speak the human
  language. Carl must make it past the humans and
  their pets to the exit before they kill him.

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Carl
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Appearance

• Hand drawn graphics
• Grid-Like Level layout
• The entire map will be displayed at all times
  when playing the game.
• A HUD will be displayed at all times showing
  score and health.

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Player roles and action

• The players role is a misunderstood zombie that
  needs to escape from the murderous humans.
• On each level, the players goal is to fufill a
  given objective and reach the finish alive.
• Objectives can be as simple as reach the end or
  can be more difficult, requring you tokill all
  enemies or collect an item (liek a key) that is
  gaurded by humans.
• Power-ups will randomly spawn to give stat boosts
  like 2x speed.

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Controls

• Dead Run will be played with the keyboard. The
  Menu can be controlled with the mouse but
  gameplay will be done using the keys.
• The arrow keys will control movement.
• Z, X and Space will control attack, interact and
  jump.

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2x Speed Power-up
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Stratagies and motivations

• The player can use the environment to hide from
  the humans.
• The player can also use the environment to
  escape. I.e Stepping on a pool diving board will
  fling the player a random distance across the
  map.
• If avoidance or escape isn't possible, the player
  can attack the humans. Warning Attacking head on
  will result in death.

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Combat

• Humans can have a variety of weapons like
  torches, axes, crossbows and guns.
• Carl only has his claws. This limits his attack
  range to the space in front of him.
• When Carl attacks a human, if the human is facing
  him, the human will automatically kill him. The
  only way for Carl to kill an enemy is to attack
  them from the side or behind.

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Level Summary/Story Progression

• The first level is laid out like a neighborhood.
• The player must get across the neighborhood to
  the park.

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First Level Concept
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Hardware

• The Hardware required for the game is a computer
  and a keyboard.

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Software

• Game will be developed in flash and will be
  playable on any system that supports flash and
  keyboard input.
• Art will be completed using Photoshop and Sound
  will be recorded using Audacity.

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Algorithm Style

• The game will be built in a polymorphic style.
  The different parts of the game will be designed
  as screens. The menu, loading screen, levels, etc
  will each be screens and each part of the game
  will be loaded screen objects.
• Collision detection will be done with basic
  collision boxes. Each object will have a
  collision box and the game will check for
  multiple boxes intersecting each other.

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AI

• The Enemies will have a simple AI. They will
  follow a preprogrammed path until they achieve
  line of sight with Carl. When they see Carl, they
  will move towards where they saw Carl and attempt
  to kill him. If killing him is unsuccessful, they
  will move back and resume their preprogrammed
  path.