Samuel J Thorp

Cartastrophe

 

Premise:

Cartastrophe is a 4 player split screen car battle mini-game

 

The game is played from the third person perspective with xbox controllers, four players have to cause as much damage to each other in a demolition derby until only one remains.

players can use power ups to give themselves an edgh over their competiition 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Development:

As the game was my concept I was the lead designer and project lead, initially designed as a party mini-game.

since the game was a mini-game, matches were deigned to only last a few minutes, once we had a working build of the game we had people test the game to find out what was good, bad and to see how people played, one strategy people used was to avoide combat until there opponents killed each other, to prevent this we added a timer to encourage more agressive play styles.

 

The power ups that i originally designed would have proved too difficult to get in with the time we had so instead the power ups were re-designed which allowed us to get them into the game.

 

We also had to balance the movment and control of the cars as well as the damage of each vehicle to make sure the game felt fun to play.