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Please give me feedback on my mobile game concept.

Started by February 11, 2022 02:01 PM
3 comments, last by Tom Sloper 2 years, 8 months ago

I plan on making an isometric mobile game using Defold. Below is my game concept and feature set:

Game Concept

A survival/idle city-building game where you have to help a group survive while building a base that progresses from the prehistoric era to the future.

Feature Set

Build a thriving city and advance it through the ages.

Build your city on procedurally-generated terrain.

Hire some natives to collect funds for you while you’re away.

Upgrade buildings and research different technology.

Gain permanent rewards by eventually moving to another land and starting fresh.

Collect resources, explore the vast landscapes, and defend against an evil group of settlers who want to take over the world.

Explore dungeons and play minigames to gain rewards.

There are many dungeons for each era.

Minigames include tower defense, tile matching, and merge.

Do you have any feedback?

Point by point:

  • Define “thriving”, since it's the main objective of the whole game. What are the differences between the “ages” going to be?
  • What does the terrain do? If you planning something more complex than the random tiles and structures in, say, Master of Magic or Civilization, is it really valuable?
  • Shouldn't the simulated citizens take care of themselves and of the city without “hiring” special characters?
  • What gameplay changes come with upgrades and new buildings? For example, what's the difference between a bronze age temple with an altar in a straw hut and a modern large cathedral?
  • Moving elsewhere (as opposed to expanding or founding colonies) should probably be considered a miserable failure (the original city doesn't thrive)
  • Settlers don't remain settlers for long, and they are normally competitive, not “evil”.
  • What in-game characters (certainly not the whole city) are going to engage with dungeons and minigames?
  • Are “dungeons” appropriate for every era? Including an ultra-high-tech endgame?
  • What do you mean by "tile matching" and “merge” in the context of city building? Are there other forms of war than tower defense?

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BradleyAuerbach said:
Do you have any feedback?

For a game design, you really didn't post anything. You need actual game mechanics, you need actual gameplay descriptions and goals, you need to figure out how the game will actually work.

“Build a city across the ages with upgrades, rewards, and collectables” has been implemented as Civilization and other 4X games, as economy games, as sim games, as role-playing games, and even as match-3 games.

BradleyAuerbach said:
Game Concept A survival/idle city-building game where you have to help a group survive while building a base that progresses from the prehistoric era to the future.

Perfectly fine concept. Go make it. Or write the design concept, then put it aside and get another. But the concept is good.

-- Tom Sloper -- sloperama.com

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