Game Brainstorm

 Game Brainstorm 

3D Catching Game 

I picked the 3D Catching game for one of my ideas because I feel like these games are simple to play, the controls and the mechanics are not complicated and anyone can play them. From my knowledge, inside of a catching game, the player needs to use its abilities to move around the map, stay focused and catch certain objects such as balls, fruits, food, animals, etc with precision. And the more objects that you catch the more difficult the game will get and the levels get increasingly harder and more fun. The objects will either fall faster or there will be such things that you are not allowed to catch such as spikes, bombs, unhealthy food etc in general just bad things can't be caught.  The things I would like to learn if I were to make a catching game is : 

• Learn the fundamentals of making a game.
• Learn the different mechanics of controlling and moving a player.
• Learn how to make the player catch objects.
• Learn how to add a point system telling the player how many of a certain object they caught. 
• Learn how to add the good things to catch and add also the bad things that you are supposed to avoid and not catch.

The type of game I want to create is a 3D Catching Game that anyone can be able to play, I also want to make a game that gets more difficult the more you play it and the more points you get.  

Here is a link to a Youtube video that I found and it is an example of what type of game I want to create  

This is an example of a certain catching I want to make
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6k8U5x0NI

The green stuff is apples and the red stuff are strawberries and they need to be caught to gain points.  And the black stuff is bombs that will explode if you catch them so they need to be avoided.

3D Platformer 

This is the very popular Super Mario Bros, this is played on the Nintendo consoles 
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/talking_point_new_super_mario_bros_is_15_years_old_and_its_still_fantastic

This is the Crash Bandicoot game, this is usually played on the Playstation Console
https://www.crashbandicoot.com/

This is Sonic the Hedgehog 
https://www.wired.com/2013/03/sonic-dash/

I picked a 3D Platformer because from my experience I played some amazing platformer games growing up such as Super Mario, Crash Bandicoot and Sonic etc. From my knowledge, inside of a platformer game, the player needs to use its abilities to jump, climb, crawl and go through difficult obstacles to go into the next round/level of the game. And the levels get increasingly harder each time and more fun. The things I would like to learn if I were to make a platformer game is   

• How to make platformers go up and down and sideways 
• How can enemies attack the player if I were to add any enemies? 
• How to add checkpoints in levels 

The type of game I want to create is a simple 3D Platformer game that is simple to operate and is fun to play. I want to be able to have a good amount of levels that consists of the 3 difficulty levels : 

• Easy 
• Medium 
• Hard

Here is a link to an article that I found, and this explains everything in great detail about how to design a 3D Platformer level. It gives you a good insight on how it goes such as. 

• The process of level design 
• The premise
• Level Design Research 
• Retrospect 

etc. 

This article is even great for people that are starting out trying to make games on Unity and this could be a good project for those who want to create a platformer game. This article/PDF looks promising and after reading through it for a little bit, I can conclude that this article is definitely a must-read. They even talk about if you want to make a simple single-player game or if you want to be a little more complex and make a multi-player game for those people who are into multi-player platformer games such as the popular Platformer game Fall Guys or Roblox.

https://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/157130/Aaltonen_Toni.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

3D Endless Running Game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Run
This is Temple Run, in my opinion, is the best endless running game ever

https://www.facebook.com/jetpackjoyride/
This is Jetpack Joyride, one of the games I used to play on mobile

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiloo.subwaysurf&hl=en_IE&gl=US

This is Subway Surfers, this is one of the 3 popular games I picked

I picked a 3D Endless Running Game because from my experience I played some mobile endless running games when I was in secondary school such as Temple Run, Jetpack Joyride, Subway Surfers and Crossy Road etc. To my knowledge, inside of an endless running game just like a platformer game,  it is an adventure type of game that just goes on forever. You earn points and win from how long you can last inside of the game, running as far as you can go avoiding obstacles, traps and enemies while running.  For example, you can be running away from people,  monsters, zombies and you can be running through different themed maps such as a jungle in Temple Run, A lab in Jetpack Joyride, A train track in Subway Surfers or things like cities, forests,  roads or anything in general if you use your imagination. These games concepts are also so simple which means anyone can play them. The things I would like to learn if I were to make an endless running game is : 

• Learn how the mechanics work for the game to go on forever like Temple Run and Jetpack Joyride
• Learn how to randomise obstacles and keep the player guessing what sort of thing they need to jump over next. 
• Learn how to add a point system in the game to keep track of any gold, points or money earned in the game. 
• Learn how to add randomised enemies that pop out from different angles such as obstacles   

The type of endless running game I want to create is a 3D based game with a scoring system, how much distance the player has covered and something that is also simple and fun to play for everyone. There will be no difficulty level. But the speed of the game increases the more distance you cover making the game more challenging.

Here is an article that I found on how to create an endless running game in Unity 3D. This goes into detail how to : 

• Create a platform
• Create an obstacle/enemies
• Create a player 

And the tutorials are in video form and picture form and it is simple to follow and gives you the code to write on Visual Studios.

https://sharpcoderblog.com/blog/endless-runner-tutorial-in-unity-3d

3D Puzzler

This is Portal, a puzzle game usually played on Playstation 
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/portal-review/1900-6190126/

This is Tetris, this is one of the most popular puzzle games where you stack tiles 
https://www.polygon.com/guides/2019/2/22/18225349/tetris-strategy-tips-how-to-jonas-neubauer

This is Little Big Planet and this is one of the more creative games where players can cusomise their worlds and play in other peoples worlds and has a great story mode. Its played on the Playstation 
https://www.wired.com/2010/03/sony-media-molecule/

Another idea that I picked was a 3D Puzzler game. Because from my experience I played some puzzle games when I was growing up as a kid on the Playstation 3 I played games such as  Portal 1 and 2 which in my opinion is the best ever puzzle game to be invented. And then I also played games such as Tetris, LittleBigPlanet etc. To my knowledge, inside of a puzzle game, There are many different types of puzzle games such as an FPS puzzle game like Portal and there is a 2D puzzle game like Tetris. These types of games require you to think outside of the box in some cases, think logically and you need to solve different patterns and put them together to go to the next level. It can also be somewhat of putting tiles together such as in Tetris, Candy Crush or Bejeweled and these games are on mobile.  The things I would like to learn if I were to make a 3D Puzzler is :

• How to make a challenging level that requires the player to think outside the box 
• Make a reward system, congratulating players for their efforts in solving the puzzles
• Add a point system on how many puzzles the player solved

I found this great article by using Google Scholar and searching up 3D Puzzle games and I found this article. This goes into massive detail on the Design of a 3D Puzzle game on Unity 3D. They give you an overview of puzzle games, all different types of design ideas and concepts, frameworks, character design, interface design. This is quite the read it has lots of information. This article requires you also to log into your student account to read the whole article. You click on read more, select the university you are in, log inside and you can read the whole thing.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9042694/keywords#keywords