March 23, 2013

Up Top - Quick Pitch

This landscape iPhone-ish game is a fast paced tapping puzzler about people from all around the world who are trapped underground after a cataclysmic event has taken place.   You need to boost moral and no better way to do that than high-fiving! Line up the moving characters so that they high five, and when they do, their sonic waves destroy the rubble above.  High five enough times, and they all go free! 

There will be a single player mode, and a 2 player wifi mode for this.


Main game play:

Rows of people in different colored shirts slowly walk from left to right, this does not stop.  On the right side of the screen are 3 columns of people (also in colored shirts) ready to be high fived.  If nothing is done, the left side will eventually collide with the right and if the characters colliding are NOT wearing the same colored shirt, they will not high five, and moral will get even lower!  if moral drops out completely, that level is failed.
The player will need to tap an individual, this will cause him to jump to the front of his row.  if he get's all of his rows matched up before they meet the right hand side, he can swipe to the right, and it will send all the first column running to the right and high fiving that side.  if he can set it up so that he can swipe in a row without tapping more people to the front of the line, he can get more bonuses.  the Sound waves from the high fives destroy the collapsed rubble above you.  Easier levels will only have a few rows, (1 or 2) and max out at 7.  Both this, and time difficulties will increase, like your "remaining air meter" will act as a count down timer etc.

The 2 player wifi mode is very similar, with the exception that the columns on the Right are blacked out so that the player can not see what color shirt the people waiting to high five are wearing.  AND player two has his screen reversed, so, his people walk in from the Right and move to the left.  It is up to the two players to coordinate where their characters are, who should jump to the front of what row, and so one, and then swipe their front rows toward the other player to high five :D  should be chaotic, and fun.. just like real high fives.


The Gui will show levels of row along the top, the more you high five, the more this breaks down, eventually opening up, and everyone escapes to safety.  This will be rated using stars, and there will be a world map with all the different levels you can go to to complete, and save the entire planet!

2 comments:

  1. Cool stuff. I think it would be awesome to have a 2 player versus mode too. I always liked puzzle games where you try to mess up your friends...heck you could even setup a cpu versus mode.
    Other ideas:
    -the idea of collapsing ground could be switched up to different scenarios like preventing a tidal wave, or an alien invasion.
    -matching up specific characters could create special weapons (especially useful for the versus mode)

    Cool game.

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  2. Totally into the special weapons to fight off the "threat" whether it be a second player, or other crazy events like you mention!

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