Concept to Prototype: Frogger X Guess Who

The concept I'm running with for now is a mashup of the classic games Frogger and Guess Who. While these games don't really have anything in common, I've taken some key components from each game to mix together into one awesome and challenging game, working title "Hop to Who?!"


Frogger elements:

• The game objective of getting the frog safely across the road.
• Timing the moves to avoid getting hit by moving objects such as traffic.
• The frog character and the level design.

Guess Who elements:

• Eliminating all the characters displayed so only 1 remains, by the help of descriptive clues.
• Physical interaction of flipping down tiles.

The Story of "Hop to Who?!":

The Frog is a lonely amphibian looking for love. He'll go to any length to find "The One" so he's risking it all by traversing across the dangerous highway all for a blind date. It's your mission to get him to his correct date safely. Make an ill-timed move and it's all over for him. Choose the wrong character and he'll leave broken hearted. 

How to play:

• The on-screen interface will display a frogger like level, there also will be a physical Guess Who style board with 16 character tiles shown face up.
• There are 2 objectives, both equally important. Get the frog across the road to safety and eliminate all but one of the characters correctly.
• To move forward the player has to flip down a character's tile
• The computer will show clues about what the mystery character looks like, so the player can flip down irrelevant tiles.
• The challenge is to flip the tiles down in sync with moving the frog to avoid collisions. This requires 2 mental processes to happen at once, strategic elimination and quick response.
• If the player gets the frog to safety, then there is the added reveal to check if they have selected the right character. Hopefully Frog can live happily ever after!

To Do Next:

Start planning the video prototype, writing the script, storyboard so I can shoot and edit this weekend. I also need to write the Statement of Delivery and a Testing/Evaluation plan. The next blog will be about the video prototyping process.