Fend The End Game Pitch

Fend The End

Game Idea Pitch

Written, Designed, & Created by Alex Stout

Category: Educational – Emergency Preparedness (possibly with advertisement)
High Concept: A tower-defense, strategy game that connects with gamers, but educates players the importance of emergency preparedness. (And possibly bring brand awareness to a particular Utah company).
Target Audience: E - Everyone. (Maybe teen, because I enjoy morbid things). But the goal is to teach people about preparedness, we probably want everyone to play the game.
Description (back of the box):
“Earth, 2015 — Hell is rising, Aliens are invading, Zombies are cannibalizing, unicorns are making rainbows...all thanks to the robots that travelled into the future to the distant planet kolob and opened the spellbound tomb of satan’s ex-lover kataka...Defend your fortress and obtain resources to fend off the evil-doers.”
Fantasy Fulfillment: It should feel like the world is ending, in a fun gloomy doomsday way. The player should feel like they need to scramble to gather resources and that they will certainly die if they don’t prepare for the next wave of evil.
Gameplay Features: There are three active protagonists. The player alternates between the three protags at will to defend various parts of the fortress. If a protag dies, they are gone forever. If all three die, game over. The fortress is defended with guns, traps, etc. In between waves, the player can collect resources. The better they prepare in down time, the better they will do in the next wave.
Similar Games: Age of Empires / Balloon In a Wasteland
Similar Entertainment Products / Cultural Relevance: Disaster intrigues people. It seems like Americans are obsessed with disaster. We also love zombies, aliens, robots, and demons with apocalyptic dispositions. And even more uniquely, in Utah, we obsess with Emergency Preparedness. So this game can educate these people on what they can do to prepare for supernatural disasters, with the intent to apply to natural disaster.