So last semester we needed to create a concept document and design document for a game idea we had. I came up with an Action-Oriented Roleplaying Game called WW3: Zombie Apocalypse. In this game you get to choose one of four characters – Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Nikola Tesla, or Robin Hood and fight hordes of zombies in a post apocalyptic future setting. Essentially what happens is Hitler rises up as a zombie and creates a zombie race to rule over and destroy humanity for what they did to him.

A special task force goes back in time and grabs these people and brings them to the future to help take care of the problem and destroy Hitler’s generals and eventually Hitler himself and save humanity. I know, it’s a really goofy concept actually but I thought it sounded like a lot of fun.

This semester we are being split into groups and making a game (really more of a concept of a game given the amount of time). As a team we present the design document we created last semester and then choose what game we’ll make. My group decided on creating my game :)

So this week we’ve had various discussions on the game play, rules we’ll be creating, monsters and their stats and behaviors, what the differences of the player characters will be (strengths and weaknesses), and just a whole lot of talk about game balance.

Also this week we’ve start messing around with ideas for the User Interface Design – here’s my idea – not sure we’ll use it yet or not though:

I’ll make sure to keep this updated a bit as we go through our game design/production process. Needless to say this is really exciting to me and I can’t wait to see what we eventually come up with.