Games Development - Task 1

|| 09/26/2025 - 10/03/2025 (Week 1 - Week 2)

|| Bertrand Alden Gani / 0370471

|| Games Development

|| Bachelor Of Design In Creative Media

|| Task 1

Week 1 : Individual Game Ideation

Instructions:

• Individually come up with a game idea (or multiple ideas, keeping limitations in mind).
• Prepare your first game pitch.
• Some students will be selected to deliver a 10-minute presentation of their game idea(s) next week in W2.
• No specific format is required for now (Game Design Document will be done in a later class).
• Try to present your ideas in the most creative and effective way possible.
• This pitch may not become your Final Project, but it will still count toward your Continuous Assessment grade.
• Document the entire process in your blog.

Ideation

During the ideation process when I was thinking what kind of game that I want to make, I suddenly got an idea, there is a game that I used to play as kids called "Fireboy and Watergirl". So, I decided that I want to make something similar, but instead of 2 players games, I want to make the player be able to switch between modes/abilities.

Game Name: The Eclipse Child

Genre: Puzzle/Adventure

Target Audience: Children/Teenager

Concept:

• The player controls one character who can shift between Sun Form and Moon Form.
• Each form interacts differently with the environment.
• You play as the Child of Eclipse, born half-Sun and half-Moon. With the world torn apart by conflict between the Sun Kingdom and Moon Kingdom, you are the only one who can wield both powers and bring peace to the divided realms.

Abilities:

• Sun Form: Illuminate dark areas, activate solar crystals, burn away vines, leap higher with solar bursts. But, cannot touch lunar water pools, fragile in shadowed zones.
• Moon Form: Walk across moonlit water, cloak to pass through barriers, summon vines/plants grown by moonlight, lower gravity for floaty jumps. But, weakened by blazing light/lava-like surfaces.

Mechanics:

• Switching Mechanic: Player switches between Sun and Moon at specific shrines or by absorbing light/shadow orbs scattered in levels.
• Puzzle Examples: use Sun to light a crystal door, then switch to Moon to cross a shimmering lake, grow moonlit vines to climb walls, then burn them away with Sun to clear a hidden passage, balance shifting platforms that move differently depending on form.

Lore:

Long ago, the Sun King and the Moon Queen ruled together, bringing balance to the skies. But when an ancient curse caused an Eternal Eclipse, their powers collapsed into chaos. From this eclipse, a single being was born, you, the Eclipse Child, carrying fragments of both celestial powers. Your quest is to journey through the ruins of sky temples, gather Sun Shards and Moon Fragments, and reunite the divided realms before the eclipse devours the world.

Goal:

The player’s ultimate goal is to master both Sun and Moon forms to overcome challenging puzzles and environments, collect celestial fragments scattered across the realms, and use them to restore harmony between the warring Sun and Moon kingdoms.