Our primary goal is to provide a unique combination of advanced
technologies that will bring to life the actual game world for the
player, in real time. In other words, we are going to give the player
the opportunity to do whatever they wish to the game world itself.
It's like putting game play into a terrain and particle system
editor, without any technological knowledge required.
Our game
is designed using XNA Game Studio Express so it only runs on the Xbox
360 or a PC.
Four players with the ability to control the elements. EleMental is a brutal death match, pitting players against one another in a winner-takes-all fight to the death. With the ability to manipulate terrain, wind, water, and fire, players battle for supremacy using whatever elements or combinations of elements they can come up with against the other players. Since the game provides for unlimited potential, the players can literally use, or abuse anything on the board. Like playing paint-ball with a backhoe, a flamethrower, a fire hydrant, and a jet pack...
Procedural modification of the game world's terrain and objects.
Use a system of particles to represent and react like real world elements.
Balanced game play and interaction.
Modern game makers tend to use a lot of programming shortcuts, what the industry refers to as smoke and mirrors, to simulate higher levels of technology. With a new computing horizon in view that removes the barriers to processing limitations, we want to move in a direction that uses more realistic physics and interactions. We want to make significant use of 'bleeding edge' technologies and explore new avenues in our pursuit of a better gaming world.
Several particular reasons stand out from playing the prototype game:
Giving the players unlimited world manipulation is unprecedented.
It is a fun and addictive game.
Choices. Many games tout that, we are delivering.
Our target rating for the game is T for Teen (under the ESRB) and our target audience is the RPG, Adventure and FPS players in the age group 14-30.
Lumea is a fantasy world. Lushly designed in color and scope, it is more like a sandbox or a clay world where the players can change the actual terrain around as they see fit to do so. Towering mountains, flowing rivers, and smoking volcanoes are possible for the players to create or destroy. The main game characters are called EleMentals and, with their powers, you can control the elements. Since the game is a death-match, the object of the game is to be the last EleMental left standing.
World manipulation.
Great potential for emergent behavior.