2D Game Pitch Legend of Seth the Bard

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2D Game PitchLegend of Seth the Bard

• Andrew Claus
• Greg Conklin
• CIS 487/587 Fall 2009

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Game Features

• Sierra-Style Interface and Gameplay
• The Legend of the Red Dragon related Storyline
• 30 Different Rooms to Explore
• 2 Major Questlines
• 5 Different ways to Kill the Red Dragon
• 4 Sad Endings
• 1 Happy Ending
• 7 Different ways to Die
• 5 Random Forest Events
• 3 Hidden Objects

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Game Story Abstract

• Continues storyline of the Legend of the Red
  Dragon
• A town which is haunted by a legendary Red Dragon
  is looking for a hero to save their land from the
  frequent disturbances
• Various heroes have trained years to hunt down
  and slay the Red Dragon
• Many have attempted to slay it
• Some boast to have killed it
• Most do not come back alive
• Seth the Bard, a local tale spinner, armed with
  the knowledge of past heroes, has vowed to stop
  this menace once and for all

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Appearance

• Classic Point-and-Click adventure/puzzle game
• 80s Sierra / Lucas Arts style
• 8-bit graphics style
• Static 3D landscape backgrounds
• Dynamic sprites placed on top of background
• The user can move the character in all 4
  directions on each screen (north, south, east, or
  west), and when the player reaches an edge, the
  screen changes to the next scene in the
  respective direction.
• Once the final scene is reached, the player will
  loop back to the opposite side of the world.
• Medieval/Fantasy setting

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Appearance contd.

• Screenshot from Legend of Seth the Bard

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Player Roles

• Player controls the main character, Seth the Bard
• Main goal
• Kill the Red Dragon
• Sub-goals
• Find/acquire items needed to slay the Red Dragon
• Complete various side-quest objectives
• Discover interesting treasures/artifacts/locations
  
• Exploration
• The player can explore most of the world without
  restriction, additional areas can be unlocked by
  figuring out the puzzles

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Available Player Actions

• Mouse actions include
• Walk to location
• Interact with item
• Look at item
• Talk to person
• Open inventory
• Look at inventory item
• Use inventory item
• Keyboard actions include
• Start/stop walking (north/south/east/west)
• Save/Load game

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Strategies and Motivations

• Talk to the locals to get additional story,
  information, and hints
• Find useful items in the games landscape
• Use the look at function on landscapes and
  objects to get additional information and hints
• Use or barter the items found to receive new
  items, or progress game play in a logical fashion
• When confronted by enemies, run away

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Level Summary

• Main town
• Main buildings and characters found here
• Inn, weapons shop, armour shop, training hut
• Forest
• Creepy forest area
• Enemies can be found here
• Farmer Fields
• Other Places
• Mysterious location
• Dragons Den
• Location of the Red Dragon

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Story Progression

• The player will start inside of the Inn with no
  inventory and little story information
• This will force the player to talk with the
  locals in the town to gather more information and
  location hints
• Upon exploration of the available areas, the user
  will be able to find objects which can be used to
  progress the game
• Trading objects with non-playing characters
• Combining objects to form new objects
• Using objects to open new locations
• Once the player finds and uses all objects in the
  intended manner, the player will have the ability
  to find, confront, and kill the Red Dragon

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Hardware Software Specification

• Hardware
• Modern PC with keyboard and mouse
• Video card
• 320x200 or 320x240 resolution support
• 32-bit color support
• Software
• Adventure Game Studio Editor
• Scripts written in AGS Script (similar to C)
• .NET Framework 2.0
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
• DirectX 5 or later
• Video drivers
• 320x200 or 320x240 resolution support
• 16-bit color support

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Algorithm Style

• Adventure Game Studio Runtime Engine
• Graphics drawn using DirectDraw 5
• 320x200 screen resolution, 32-bit color
• Sprites used to implement animation
• Coordinate based collision detection
• Audio supported by DirectSound
• Mouse functionality supported by DirectInput