Christina's Game Pitch - Era

So here's my game design. The image is a quick ref of what I had in mind.

Underneath it, I've put all the text again, just you can read it without having to enlarge the image.

- Christina

Individual Game Pitch

Name: Christina Butler

Game Name: Era

Category: Educational (A puzzler game, revolving lightly around the topic of animal extinction awareness)

High Concept: The animals are fading away! Gather up their tiles to build them back.

Target Audience: E for Everyone. Probably meant a bit more for younger children, as it is more of a matching (sort of memory) game with animals.

Overall Description: In Era, the idea is to match up similar tiles as quickly as possible. There is a mechanical sphere in the center of a dark room. The sphere opens up like an orange as you reach specific checkpoints, and there are tiles covering both sides of the “peels” and the inner core. You only have a certain amount of time before each tile begins to disappear, so you have to pair up as many as you can!

The goal is to essentially “save” the animal that each pair of tiles represents. After you collect all the pairs that relate to a specific animal, it will appear below the sphere and walk around underneath until the game is over. As you “save” each animal, the timer will increase to give you more time and a few more tiles will appear, to give you more of a chance.

To keep it a little simpler, there will only be about 3-5 animals, and they will be ones that are in a more critical threat of extinction.

Fantasy Fulfillment: I want them to be able to associate certain traits to each animal. There will be tips in the corner of the screen that hint at each animal as well as give you some facts about said animal. So the idea is to subtly get players to think about these animals.

Gameplay Features: The fact that it’s in a 3D environment is the key feature, I think. The player will be able to rotate around the sphere and the “peels”, so they have to seek out and find each tile. Ideally, the player would also be able to interact with the animals they’ve “saved” after beating the game (while seeing their score) and in the pause menu.

Similar Games: Mahjong, matching games in general.

Similar Entertainment Products: Extinct animal associations, in particular, would probably find this a good game for kids.