Theme
Most importantly: The purpose of this game is, in some way; not necessarily with strong realism, to show some of the downsides of overfishing. Creating shocking images that gets to people is far from the idea here. The kind of goal here is that a lot of people play this game, notice the links we'll place in it leading to Ocean Legacy's website(s), and become more aware of problems in the sea industry such as overfishing.
Basically, you would start out as a small fish. There would be different obstacles along the journey, like hooks, nets, bottom trawlers, discarded fishing gear and garbage. The objective is quite simply survival. Having an end-game prize is not of big importance, seeing as the game should be almost endless (or, it should be so hard towards the end that just one in a million will actually finish it) because it's supposed to be a high-score-battle kind of game.
Gameplay
Basically speaking, we're making a slightly more advanced and hopefully much more graphically pleasing version of this game:
[http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Games/FlyHelicopter.htm]
[http://www.gizdic.com/freegames/gamespages/helicopter.htm]
Controls
The controls would probably be like that helicopter game (either holding or quickly clicking the mousebutton in order to raise higher), with some possible additions not yet decided.
Up/down (ascent/dive) - One shared button.
You may also jump by ascending all the way to the surface. Depending on how much speed you gather before the jump, you will jump higher.
Objective
All you have to do is get as far as you can without hitting any of the obstacles, this ending your highscore. There would often be alternate routs, even with big fishingnets as they could have small holes in them. There will also be bonus-points to get by eating smaller fish. These will commonly be placed at some point of high risk, like a small gap in between two hostile objects.
What we hope the game to be
- These kind of games can be very addictive.
- Because of the highscore and the increasing difficulty you can have fun competing with your friends.
- Creating the game with randomly created levels would be a possibility, further adding to its replay value.
