Forbidden Fruit

Game Design by Fabio Militello

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Commercial Overview

• Game title: Forbidden Fruit• Platform: Tablet/Mobile• Game type/genre: Action/Adventure• Strap Line: Follow the fruit trail• Target Audience: Casual/Mobile gamers• USPs: In-Game Customizations• Age rating: 12+• Number of Players: 1 • Similar Titles on the market: Temple run, Pitfall, Subway

Surfers.

Quick Reflexes and intelligent decision making is what's needed to progress in this game!

- Embark on a journey through the overgrown and wild amazon rainforest, stealing forbidden fruit with mysterious powers along the way!

- Avoid or overpower the local tribesmen, hell-bent on stopping you from taking their precious fruit!

- Angry tribesmen aren’t the only thing that can stop you dodge trees, rocks, and wild animals as well!

- Pick up fruit and trade them with local tradesmen for items such as weapons and boosts!

- Complete the missions set at the start of each level to progress to the next!

Game Design• Game Concept – Steal fruits from the indigenous tribesmen and avoid the obstacles and traps.

• Setting – Jungle environment

• Look and Feel – Temple run, Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider and Pitfall.

• Key Gameplay Aspects – Collecting the special fruits which give you special abilities (power-ups) e.g. rage fruit which lasts 10 seconds and allows you to go through the obstacles and enemies without being harmed.

• Game Rules: Collect the fruits within the time limit and avoid death. Fruits can be traded in for passive abilities. Players can choose which paths to take throughout each level for example one path could have less fruits but will be easier because there will be less enemies or obstacles. Whereas the other path will be harder but you will be rewarded with more fruits.

• Game Progress: Every level has its own unique mission, upon completion of this mission the player then goes to the next level with a new mission. Each mission completed goes towards a score, which is updated every time a mission is completed. Online leader boards keep track of players scores.

• Game Modes: Single Player & Online Leaderboards

Power-UpsThese are fruits which are distinctively different from the normal fruits, due to their

colour. When a player picks one up, depending on what the power is, they will get a boost.

Green fruit – “Healing fruit” (Health Regeneration)Red fruit – “Rage Fruit” (automatically smash

through rocks, trees, and attack enemies without having to tap the screen. Invulnerability for ten seconds).

Purple fruit – “Wealth fruit” (is the equivalent of 5 normal fruits).

WeaponsThere are three types of weapon in ‘Forbidden Fruit’ – the bat (which is set as the

default weapon), the whip, and the gun. The gun is the most expensive, the whip is the least expensive. The bat comes as standard.

Weapons- Bat: This weapon is the default weapon that requires no purchases. The player

taps the screen in order to hit the enemy with a bat, which gets them out of the players path. For the bat to work, the player must be in close proximity to the enemy.

- Whip: This will whip both tribesman and animal out of the way. The player will have to be in medium to close range for the whip to have effect.

- Gun: This will shoot down the tribesmen or the animals from long range.

Passive AbilitiesUnlike the power-ups which are collected during the level, these are brought with fruit that have been

previously collected throughout the game. They stay with a character forever, and only need to be purchased once. A player can have up to three active abilities at once.

Sprinter: Your character is faster.Entrepreneur: Fruit is worth x2 of its original value (1 normal fruit is 2, and

Wealth Fruit is 10).Fighter: Weapons ranges are all increased. Bat can be used at medium range,

whip can be used at long range, gun stays the same.Lover: Enemies will not attack you.The Unstoppable Force: Rocks and Trees do less damage.Anger Management: the Rage Fruit power-up will last 20 seconds instead of 10.Healthy Appetite: the Healing Fruit will grant you more health on collection.Haggler: all prices at the store are lowered.

Screen Layout HUD & Controls• Swipe left (<-) or right (->) to turn left

or right.• Swipe screen upwards (^) to jump over

obstacles or gaps.

Fruit collected is displayed on the top left of the screen. And the current mission/objective is displayed on the top right.

Health bar displayed in the bottom right. Health is deducted for every tribesman that hits you, for every rock and tree that you run into, and for every animal that attacks you. Health goes straight to 0 if you miss a jump. When health gets to 0, you restart (or go back to the main menu)

After the completion of the current mission the level changes and you will be given a new mission and the time will reset.

Missions include collect certain amount of fruits in certain time period or collect certain colour of fruits.HEALTH

Characters• Johnny Speed is the main character you play as. He is an explorer

who has heard rumours of a forbidden fruit deep in the amazon rain forest, with potentials to give super-human powers.

• Sarah Blaine is Speed’s partner who is never seen in the game however her voice can be heard over the communication link. She assigns you to objectives and guides you by giving you helpful tips.

• The main antagonist is called Aku Aku, he is the head chieftain of the tribe which has been infected by the forbidden fruit, he orders the tribesmen to stop you from collecting the fruit. He is only seen in cut scenes.

Cut scenes

• Cutscenes are in the form of drawings that have a few sound bites, and text underneath each drawing that explains what is going on (similar to Angry Birds, or Bad Piggies).

• The first cut scene is Johnny Speed landing in the jungle, after playing the tutorial level a cut scene plays showing a tribesman spotting Johnny Speed stealing the fruit and runs to his Chieftain to tell him the news. The Chieftain then orders the whole tribe to hunt down Johnny Speed and bring him to the Chief.

Menu System

• Start Game• Online Leaderboards• Shop– Abilities– Fruit Bundles– DLC

• Options (Sound, Graphics)– Sound: MUSIC ON/OFF, SOUND FX ON/OFF.– Graphics: Low, Medium, High.

Sound

• Tribal drum beat in the background • Jungle ambient sounds such as rain, animals,

birds.• Shouts in game from the tribesmen in their

language as they apprehend Johnny

Monetization

• You can buy ‘fruit bundles’ from the shop (where you can also buy upgrades with the fruit you have collected in game).

• Seasonal bonus levels all year round, for example at Halloween the fruit turns into pumpkins, and at Christmas the floor is covered in snow and the environment changes.