Rewards and Penalties

This game is going to have a different kind of reward system than the standard game. First off, there will not be endless amounts of enemies in this game and they will not re-spawn after being defeated. Once an enemy is dead in the game it is dead for good, so each enemy will have it's own entity in a way. Meaning, the game will only have a set number of enemies for the entire game. All enemies will not show up at the beginning of the game, but will gradually enter the game as the player progresses. So here's the reward and penalty part about this game. The story goes that each enemy is a possessed student or faculty member of the school, so the player will want to make moral decisions on whether they need to kill an enemy or not. Most likely the player will need to kill to survive if she feels that killing is the only way to survive. At the beginning and throughout the story the player will be reminded about who the enemy is and to be careful about killing them. This will not happen too often so the player doesn't get annoyed by constant nagging from the game. The story will be somewhat nonlinear as when the player kills, the dialog and cut-scenes change if the player reaches a certain kill number in between each cut scene. The enemy can be defeated in two ways; completely killed or partially killed. The enemies will die completely if a powder drug is applied to their eye, which the game will aim this action automatically as it is a close range weapon The player will approach the enemy and initiate the action at close range, and then the animation will happen on its own. Maybe a thrust motion with the motion controller will be added for more involvement. To partially kill, the player just needs to defeat the enemy with another type of weapon, such as a scalpel from the science room. If the enemy is partially killed they will die for a while than they will come back to haunt the player later in the game. This will be a long while, not just a few seconds. The player will literally encounter the same enemy later in the game. All the enemies primarily start off as, what seems like, a regular human searching for the player's character or they may just be standing around talking to each other in the halls or in the rooms. If the enemy is partially killed, they behave like beserked monsters, tearing the place apart to find the player or any other humans they can find. The player can still fight them, but they may be more difficult. The reason the player would not want to completely kill the enemy is that the game does not have an unlimited supply of the powder drug or ingredients to make the drug. So the player must plan and ration the use of it. Partially killing enemies kills that enemy in the long run at the end of the game so whoever is partially killed or completely killed by the end of the game will be dead indefinitely at the ending. There will be multiple endings for how many enemies are still left, only that they will not be enemies anymore, but will turn back into students and faculty members. Not completely killing anyone will result in more enemies roaming the halls and even the class rooms. Partially killing enemies will result in more crazy enemies but the player can keep killing them and then rinse, lather, repeat. If they have been partially killed and the player partially kills the enemy again, the enemy will recover a little faster than the initial partial kill. So why would someone want crazier enemies rather than just leaving them smart and intelligent? When completely alive the enemy AI may find various ways of killing the player where as the beserked partially dead will just charge at the character to attack. So the completely alive enemies will attack more intelligently making for an unpredictable attacking pattern to build tactics around. I guess partially killed enemies would be like the undead. So in a nut shell, players can choose to have more enemies around, more crazy enemies around or less enemies altogether. Less enemies may be easier to navigate around, but the end result is a sad ending. Having more enemies alive will result in a happier ending but may be a harder game to play. It is up to the player to record how much they have killed. It's also up to the player to determine what is most difficult to them. This will allow much replay value for this game.

 

 

 

 

Three Killer Scenarios

There will be many things in this game that are different than the movie as far as story goes . Here are three of them.

 

 

1. Making the powder drug that kills the enemy.

There is not much choice in this scenario as the player needs to complete tasks in a specific order. First the player will help the NPC, Zeke, find a room in the basement where Zeke can fabricate a synthetic drug, which has detrimental effects on the alien parasites. Zeke has all the materials to make his lab. After this is done it is up to Casey (who the player controls) to find ingredients for Zeke to make this drug while Zeke builds his lab. Zeke will give Casey a list of ingredients that Zeke needs to make the drug. These ingredients will be located in different rooms, such as the science lab, and the player must infiltrate the school to get those ingredients. At this point the player only needs to get the bare minimum amount of ingredients that Zeke needs. So the if the player finds more ingredients after this scenario he can take it down to Zeke and make more powder. The player will be able to sneak around enemies that are roaming the halls. To do this the player is able to hide behind objects, like a desk, move through air ducts, and perform even more actions to move around. The player must study the enemies movements so they don't see the player moving around. Combat is an option, but the player will not be able to completely kill many enemies as the player will very little of the killing drug at this point. If the player is able to find objects to fight with, such as a ruler, than the player may use it. How will a ruler defeat an enemy you ask? In real life it may hurt a little bit, but this is a video game, come on! The enemies may alert others too. Once the player gets any and/or all the supplies he can carry them down to Zeke so he can start making his powder. This scene will be close to the beginning of the game so the player can get more supplies later from Zeke. But again the supply is not infinite for the whole game.

 

Fight with the Math Teacher

Again, the player has a choice on whether to kill the enemy or not and the Math Teacher is no exception. The faculty members will be bosses and the player will encounter them in certain rooms. These encounters will not always happen in a classroom. So it is up to the player to fight and defeat the teacher. Fighting will not just be attacking but will also entail moving around and crawling under desks and such. There will be a place to trap the math teacher if the player chooses not to kill the teacher. But the player may encounter the teacher again and if this happens the player can trap the teacher again. Since this fight will take place in a class room, the player will enter the room and then the math teacher will jump on a desk and snarl all hunched over like, just because it can. This teacher is still completely alive, it just acts weird because its, well, a teacher. The teacher will dive at Casey full force and try to pass on the parasite. The player is able to break free by shaking the Wii Motion Plus and Nunchuk. The player is able to slash and punch to get away the teacher and harm it as well. All the bosses will have a health bar and if the player attacks the bosses', their health will go down. The lower the health the slower the boss moves. This will be an ideal time to either trap the math teacher or kill him. If trapping is the choice, there will be a few areas like a closet to shut the door and lock it after getting the teacher in there. The math teacher will be able to run, attack by punching, and can even jump on desks to cover more ground quickly. Each faculty member will behave differently for each encounter.

 

Football Team Hunt

There will be one scene where the school's football team enters the school to find Casey and the other survivors. The player will only have to worry about Casey and the other survivors will escape on their own except for one or two, which will be part of the story. The player will have to keep a low profile while this search is going on. After a while if Casey is not found, than the football team will leave the school and the search will end. The player can not just stay in one place because the team is searching everywhere. Another option for the player to end the search is if he chooses to expose himself and run. Now Casey can run pretty fast and if the player chooses to expose themselves they can end the search faster, provided they escape the chase from the football team. Maneuvering around the team may prove difficult because there will be a lot of team members, so the player must choose wisely. The player will be able to run and jump over obstacles until he reaches the outside. If the player is able to lure the football team outside and then run back inside and lock all the doors then the search and chase will end. If the player hides instead of running outside during the chase, then he may be found. The search time will be extended if the player is discovered and then hides.

 

 

 

Community Share

Since the game is going to be on the Wii U than the Miiverse will be a perfect tool to build a community. The player will be able to use the Wii U Gamepad to take pictures anywhere in the game and post them up on Miiverse. Taking pictures during an enemy encounter can be very risky. These pictures can be shared on the Miiverse with anyone, whether they own the game or not. The community will be allowed to post comments on each picture shown on Miiverse. Say a person takes a picture of a frog dissecting project in the science lab. Users in the community may start talking about dissecting frogs in Biology and then the conversation might escalate into how weird someone's science teacher is. Then somebody might start talking about how their game design workshop professor is... Jus kiddin. But the posting of these pictures can show parts of the game to others and also show where in the school the player has been. So in a sense players will be playing this game together by compare and contrast.

 

This game may be a little different, but with its unique experience its bound to be a hit. And hopefully it'll be better than the movie.