BA4 - Game Design Document entry 1

We have been tasked with creating a concept for a game, from a game that already exists. So in other words, we are to re-imagine it. I suspect this is to test our innovative capabilities, or how well we can create original content from something already established.

The five games we have to choose from are ; Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Buttery, Moshi Monsters, Flow, Medal of Honor and The Portopia serial murder case. All are very distinctive games, with differing art styles, tone, target audiences, genre etc.

Me and my partner have settled on the idea of creating our own iteration of the Medal of Honor series, set during World War One. We want to boost up the idea of cavalry, where the player acts through a warhorse, rather than a generic infantryman. To make the horse idea work, we have been thinking about altering the technology of the time of WW1, so as to make cavalry combat more viable. Maybe we could set back the development of gunpowder, so as to remove bolt-action rifles and machine guns, and replace them with far more primitive weapons. In doing so, we would be making a great deal of  work for ourselves, given the detail and accuracy of the Medal of Honor series so far, as we would be creating a greatly altered world, albeit one grounded in reality.