Magma surge is an upcoming browser / smartphone game being developed by yours truly for my major project. The game is a simple fast paced platform game where the player must escape from a volcano with a rising plume of burning liquid rock hot on his heels. Pun completely intended. The volcano will nicely enough contain a series of platforms that allow the player to leap out the way of the lava. This simple concept lends itself well to creating lots of interesting levels and iv already got several ideas to work on.
I intend to create a simple casual game that people will play quickly on their phones or laptops while killing time like waiting on a bus or download to complete. When complete it will be akin to the likes of Angry Birds and Cut the Rope insofar as being a game with numerous short levels that are fun and satisfying to complete. I want to look at implementing a simple leader board system and to incorporate some social network websites in some way shape or form.
The game is gonna be built in Flash using Action Script 3. This being a solo project for the most part, the decision to use AS3 was based heavily on the large amount of support available both online and from colleagues. I will be teaching myself most of the coding so it will be a challenge, but one I'm very much looking forward to taking. The biggest part i look forward to is doing all the artwork and level designs. With games like this having large amounts of short levels, it will be fun to come up with different ideas and scenarios for the player to overcome.
Right now I'm getting all of the paperwork done in terms of proposals and documents to keep my masters in DIT happy, but once all of that is done and dusted I can jump into this project with no distractions. Watch this space for further updates and probably lots of moaning about the difficulties of game design :)
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