Game Overview
A First Person Puzzle game where you have to figure out how to build things to survive an onslaught during the night. The game features heavy gore and every decision you make, matters. You have to carefully orchestrate every action to make sure every single one isn’t wasting your time. You have 6Hours to make sure they don’t get in.
It is set in a suburban home with two floors and a basement using the environment to show things like guns and resources you might find in a post apocalyptic home. The games narrative is brought to you by the survivors you can rescue giving you just enough to be able to piece everything together.
Story Overview
You as a survivor have just entered a suburban home after you have scavenged for supply’s. You get given information that makes you aware that an oncoming infected zombie horde is going to break through your town in 6 Hours. You know you can’t possibly get far enough away without sacrificing appropriate time to defend, so you bunker down. You set up traps and barricades, and machinery to help fend off any zombie that breaks into the home.
You can help survivors by letting them inside the home when they knock on the door for help. You can either save them or leave them as bait to help you survive. One of the survivors is already infected which means you can save them, use them as bait or make them leave in order to not make you vulnerable for when they turn.
Genre
- Horror
- First Person
- Mystery
- Puzzle
- Every Choice Matters
- Post apocalyptic
Game Mechanics
- Building
- Scavenging
- Resource Management
Target Audience
The target audience for this game is primarily aimed for 15+, as i feel like the depiction of gore and violence (although not explicitly shown) can be labelled as disturbing to younger audiences. 15+ feels like the perfect time where teenagers should divulge into the gore/horror genres. Teenagers also always want things they cannot get therefore having this be a 15+ might be a good way to introduce this level of violence even is its on explicitly shown.
Hardware
The game will be available for PC players only but it will support the Game-Pad inputs.
Minimum specs to be determined.
Input Devices
This game will support:
- Keyboard and Mouse
- Xbox Controller
- Dualshock 4 controller
Setting
In a world where a military science wing were testing out new forms of combat, by bringing back the recently dead with a mutated virus strain found in insects, got loose. The world went quiet. There was no time to prepare, it spread like wild fire. How are you supposed to kill something that is already dead? The world found it’s answer; you cant.
Game inspiration
The game series Don’t Escape has had a lasting impact on me throughout the years and i want to remake that style of game in 3D. I want to make sure i keep the aspects of those games that made people enjoy it and want more while innovating with new ideas that i feel the people would want.
You can find the trilogy listed on steam for £4.29 or you can get the trilogy on newgrounds for free! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070550/Dont_Escape_Trilogy/
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlist/200032/the-don-t-escape-trilogy
scriptwelder also made a final Don’t Escape game called Don’t Escape 4 and it is a full length game where it is just the originals but longer and more innovative. It costs £12.79 on steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/611760/Dont_Escape_4_Days_to_Survive/