Buccaneer’s Booty–Initial Ideas

Natalie Ham- DeveloperYasaman Lines- Developer

Luke Webb- Designer

Game’s Description Buccaneer’s Booty is the name of our game.

Meaning :

Buccaneer means a Pirate, Booty means Treasure

Buccaneer’s Booty is a level game about pirates. The user can choose from a selection of characters, the character chosen then goes on different quests and missions to find treasure, and complete puzzles to gain achievements.

Genre: Platform Adventure Level Game

Target Audience: 11 – 15 Years

Games Plot

Starts with menu screen in which you choose to play the game, then you can choose the character.

The plot of the whole game is that the player controls a character through different levels. The character goes through different environments in order to escape back to the pirate ship called The Wandering Dream . Throughout each level the character will collect treasure, which later on will allow the user to buy more characters and power ups.

Level One

In the first level starts with the character escaping from jail. The character then has to complete puzzles in order too find keys which will unlock their shipmates. 3 puzzles will be completed throughout the level.

Puzzle Ideas:

- Sliders

- Jigsaws

- Word search

- Picture puzzles

- Quiz Question – multiple choice

Game Progression

The game will consist of different levels which would contain different environments and different themes.

Level 1-3 – Jail

Level 4-6 – Pirate Town

Level 7-10- Jungle

Level 11- 14 – Cave

Level 15- 18 – Beach

Level 19- 22- Pirate Boat

Lead Characters

Name: Captain Grumpy

Age: 50

Role: Captain of the ship (Wandering Dream)

Description:

Miserable, sarcastic, well dressed, bad-tempered, Crabby.

Lead Characters

Name: William Buckthorn

Age: 75

Role: Navigator

Description:

Weathered from pirate life, Wise and Intelligent but mad. Also very mysterious.

Lead Characters

Name: Esmerelda Truelove

Age: 16

Role: Skivvy

Description:

Over Enthusiastic, Over Keen, Healthy, Attention Seeker

Lead Characters

Name: Nathaniel Cruikshank

Age: 16

Role: Skivvy

Description:

Also Over enthusiastic, Over Keen, Healthy and Cocky

USP

From Research, A treasure collecting puzzle pirate games was rare to find especially on the android play store. So our game will be unique in that way.

We also believe that the game has a great story line and characters

The cartoon feel makes it more appealing for the younger audience.

Research – Montage of Games

When doing our research we looked at games such as Sid Meier's pirate game. To help us gain ideas of what characters would look like, the setting of the game and what genre we want out game to be, For example weather its an adventure, quest etc.

Research ContinuedO’Timber/lil piratesWe did some research and searched pirate games on our smart phones to see what type of pirate games are out the and weather or not we can make our game unique.

Example of 2D platformsFrogatto and FriendsLimboSonic Ray mancontinuity

Supporting Artwork – Logo/ Header for Menu

Supporting Artwork - Jail

Supporting Artwork - Loot

Supporting Artwork - Buildings

Background Art

Background Art

Background Art

Background Art

Background Art

ScheduleDate Task

Wednesday 23rd Jan Written Proposal / Start Building Characters and Environment

Friday 25th Jan Meet to finalized plan and written proposal, Starting Building Game

Tuesday 29th Jan Carry on building throughout the last couple of weeks.

Friday 1st Feb Create final outcome presentation

Monday 4th Feb. Final Outcome presentation