GAME PROPOSAL Ni Ye, Alain Sakha & Dom Romano COMP 376

Summary When the University of Zachary O’Mally-Bush Interdisciplinary Edification (Z.O.M.B.I.E) decides to serve D grade beef in the school’s cafeteria, strange things begin to happen to those who eat it. Hours after ingesting the contaminated meat, students begin to turn into these zombie-like creatures, mindlessly attacking and trying to eat the other students. This is when we are introduced to the hero/heroes of the game (depending on number of characters you decided to play with) who are all students in a class in which an infected student has begun attacking the teacher. They save the teacher by defeating the zombies but find out the school is overrun with many of these sick, zombie like students. But time is of the essence: the cafeteria sold beef tacos at half price for lunch, and everyone loves tacos. It won’t be long till the infections changes those who ate it into zombies. Their quest is not only to escape from the school alive, but to help other students and faculty that have yet to be contaminated. That is if they can do it in time before our heroes, who indulged in Cheap Taco Tuesday, become zombies themselves.

General Information Title: Zombies Ate My Teacher Tag line: “They were what they eat” Platform: PC/Xbox 360 Genre: 2D Action Role Playing Game Market : – Male ages 13-30, who play videogames with others – Zombie movie fans – Survival horror game fans Setting : College/University campus-Present day Plays like: Diablo 2 meets Dead Rising

Mechanics 1.Gain experience as you progress through the game to level up character. -This is the basic system for RPGs. When a character defeat an enemy, they will gain some experience points (XP). -When the XP reaches a progressive threshold, the character will “Level up”. -Each level the player attains will increases the character’s abilities (i.e. strength, defense, etc.) and will also receive a skill point to spend towards the character’s skill tree. -Each level up will aid the character in fighting stronger enemies (who have a set level).

Mechanics -Each character will have their own skill tree. -Each time a character level up, he will get one point for his skill -There are different levels of skills, and as such, to acquire higher levels of skills, lower levels must be purchased first. 2. Skill tree for characters to acquire and build special skills

Mechanics 3. One way economy - Each time a character defeats an enemy, the enemy will drop a random amount of money, with the upper range increasing as the enemy level increases. -Character can use the money to buy food (to increase health, or temporarily increase other abilities) and supplies from various vending machines around the environment.

Mechanics 4. Two player co-op with four playable characters -Single and two player co-op modes -Four different characters to choose from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses

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Reference Art 1. Highschool of the Dead (Anime, 2006) Very similar situation: Students fighting against zombies.

Reference Art 2. Night of the Living Dead (Film, 1990) Classic zombie movie in which a small group of strangers work together to try to survive

Reference Art 3. Lone Survivor (Game, 2012) A very dark and scary 2D survival horror game

Reference Art 4.Resident Evil 4 (Game, 2005) Different forms of zombies

Reference Art 5. Ghost Ninja Zombie Beatdown (Android/IPhone) 2D zombie sprites

Reference Art 6. Cell (Novel, 2006) -A cellphone signal turns all those with that service provider into zombies-like drones

Related games 1.Dead Rising (2006) Dead Rising is a survival action game which has one character fight a large amount of zombies. Both games are located in a closed environment (a mall for Dead Rising). Both have the main character/characters search their surroundings to save others.

Related games 2. Diablo 2 This action RPG also uses a bird’s eye view camera to view the environment. Its graphics are similar to the 2D look in ZAMT. Like in ZAMT, Diablo 2 uses experience points to level up the main character. With each level, the player is awarded with ability upgrades and points to spend on the skill tree. Enemies also have levels and drop loop upon death, which is used to purchase inventory, likewise in ZAMT.

Related games 3. Left 4 dead Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter. Set during the aftermath of an apocalypse, the game pits its four survivors against hordes of infected people. As in ZAMT, Left 4 Dead features a single and co-op mode.

Why we want to make this game -Why is it innovative? It is introducing the RPG genre to survival horror gaming. -Why is it interesting for target audience? It allows the audience to experience a zombie survival horror game in an environment they are familiar with.(school)

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