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Final poster.

At the conclusion of this project, I have learnt to re-look and rethink about how games are framed. It has overall been an interesting course and strongly recommend others to look at ludology not just for the game aspect itself, but also to understand consumerism, human nature and behavior, among others.

First project: Understanding and redefining L4D2

Second project: A dynamic tower defense game concept, LoopD

Original idea by Ryang Ho Sung

A poster done for my end of semester assignment, which is a conceptual game called 1AA (1 After Apocalypse), a multiplayer cooperative/competitive survival and resource management game.

The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where players must learn to ration their resources and find appropriate alliances in order to survive the new dystopian world. Resources are found all across the gamespace, which invites the player to explore several major cities such as London and New York (each city or major city landmark is accessible through fast travel options).

Death in the game is a result of being killed by hostiles (enemy players or enemy AIs), but instead of a permanent death of the player character, the player character will be revived in the closest medical centre with diminished resources (stolen by killer-player). Permanent death occurs when the player is absent of essential resources in their inventory over a period of time, or when the player is without resources as is killed by hostiles. Permanent death will cause the player to have to restart the game from the beginning with a new character that is basic resources but no exploration of the gamespace.

Formal alliances formed will increase a player’s resource as they will be able to store and access the alliance’s resource bank. The alliances work in a hierarchal manner, where the player-leader of the alliance will have access to everyone’s resources in the resource bank, while lower ranking members of the alliance will only have access to a limited amount of shared resources set by their superiors (officers).