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Belt of Destiny

Game Concept

This game is an endless runner type experience where you need to sort trash as it comes in on a conveyor belt. Your goal is to know what items can and should be recycled. There will be a temp bar on the side of the screen that determines the heat of the earth. Every piece of trash that goes into the incinerator will cause the earth to go up in temperature. Every piece of trash that is properly recycled will cause the temp to go down. When something that should not be recycled gets into the recycler it will short out the switch box causing you to lose progress by forcing the trash to be the only option for a while being.

Gameplay

Core

The play will have the ability to alter the flow of the endless conveyor belt. They can choose to allow items to go into the incinerator or allow items to go into the recycler. Their objective is to learn what items can be and what can't be recycled in order to keep the earth's temperature from hitting the cap. Each item that goes into the incinerator will cause the temperature of the earth to go up with items that can be recycled to go up more than usual. If the user recycles an item that should not be recycled the ability to control the flow of the conveyor will be locked to incinerator for a period of time.

The game needs a system to keep track of points or accomplishments. I am leaning towards points based upon the number of items recycled.

Progression

With the game being and endless runner type of experience the ways we can control is the rate/speed of the conveyor belt along with the frequency of items. As the player gets past item counts the rate and frequency will go up with a final cap.

User Interface

The game will feature a conveyor belt coming in from the bottom and headed towards the top of the screen where it will split into two separate belts. Each subsequent belts will feed into either an incinerator or a recycled.

Along the right side of the screen you will also see a bar that measures the temperature of the earth. The bar will progress upwards for each item that gets put into the incinerator. Each item that gets properly recycled will bring the meter downwards.

Above the machinery at the top of the screen will be a point counter that continuously counts upwards the users scores.

There will be a pause button to pause the game.