A Game Concept Idea

A game concept by: Rojer Mustafa

Working Title: High Stakes: Dockside

Platform: PC/PS3/360

Genre: Racing

Target Audience: 12+

Brief story description

During every weekend at midnight, the city dockyard becomes a playground for various groups of people and their tuned up cars. Large groups of people meet up at the docks, the entire area lit up by a sea of highlights and neon glow. The point of these gatherings is simple. High stakes racing. As a newbie to the scene, you will have to race your way up the top, to claim your right as top dog in this racing scene. As you move up the ladder, bets will get higher, pressure will rise and it’s up to you as to whether you succeed, or wipe out trying. 

Brief Game play elements description

The player will be confined to the dockyard area of an unnamed city, although every weekend the area may change. Each weekend, containers and dockyard equipment may change location as the docks are still used regularly in the daytime. New routes are formed using the environment every weekend, giving a large variation of routes inside one environment. Collision with the environment can cause considerable damage to the player’s car or the opponent’s cars. With routes covering the whole dockyard, driving near the edge of the dock beside the water is unavoidable, so the player must take extra care not to drive in.

The player will have a starting budget in which to spend on their first car and bet on their first race. After this the player is required to constantly spend money on their car, improving performance, visual looks and maintaining it so it doesn’t fail half way through a race. After each race repairs may have to be made also. The player may obtain a job for extra income during the week.

Races are organized via BBS or E-Mail in-game during the week, with various opponents with differing personalities, skills and car choices. Each opponent has a strong point and a weak point, so it is up to the player to either take advantage or not, given the situation. The amount the player can bet will be influenced by the opponent’s preferences.

Unique Selling points

·         High stakes betting system

·         Opponents with their own qualities and personalities

·         Car modification and maintenance

·         In-game communication with NPC’s

·         Constantly changing environment

Designs created during my time with vDream Racing

I was once a long-time player of an app called vDream Racing, available on Facebook, My Space, Bebo and Tagged. I mainly played through Facebook and for a brief time, My Space. vDream was a unique and original car customising game that earned itself a very large player base and within that, an actual community.

In no time at all, the certain members of the community expressed their desire to create content for the game themselves, so vDream's developers allowed users to design their own cars and parts for the game and the best of this content would feature in the game.

From the 6th of April 2010, I submitted a handful of parts to the game and all of them were accepted and featured, earning me the status of "Designer" within the game's community.

Here is one of the cars from the game, a Toyota Supra. 

And here is the same car customised with parts I designed. I created a headlight intake (a part used to force more air into the engine to produce more power), decoration for the headlights, a new front bumper with a new front spoiler, a new side skirt, a rear lip and decoration for the rear wheel arch.

To make it a little easier to see my work, I've put the blue parts on a silver Supra. The car was available in 6 colours, so for each part I designed, I had to create 6 versions of it in each colour.

In total I created 7 different parts for the game, however if you were to include the 6 manual recolours for each coloured part, the part total reaches a much greater number of 36.

vDream Racing unfortunately came to a close across all social platforms in November last year, due to the increasing costs of running the game and problems with Facebook's security system.

Welcome To My Portfolio!

Hello! 

I am Roj and this is my Blogspot page. Its purpose is to act as a portfolio that I can link to and edit easily when needed. I aim to constantly add to and update the page to show off my latest works.

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