"Bearly" Iced!

• Originality: What is original about your game? You play as a smart lad who has developed an ice gun and wishes to test it in a simulated environment.
• Technical Merit: What is interesting about your game technology? The movement is done via a grid. It's not something you see often in games.
• Prototype Postmortem: What did you learn from this prototype? What was the easiest or hardest part of making it? Easiest: thinking of the concept Hardest: making the bears chase the player on the grid
• Prototype Assets: Did you make your prototype assets from scratch? Did you borrow them? Cite your sources here.
  • Art by Anna Rose Chi - a student at RISD: Anna Rose portfolio
  • Music sampled from Casiopea ‎– Mint James (1982) - Midnight Rendezvous
  • Tile sprite example used to add the overlaying grid dynamically: tile sprite example
• Prototype Closest Other Game: Kind of similar to old Pacman - movement wise
• High Concept: Shoot the bears, and don't get hit!
• Theme: Non sequitur
• Mandated Variety: Input: keyboard Randomness: mixed Play styles: achiever Genre: shooter
• Prototype Goal: Grid-fixed movement
• Player Experience Goals: Shenanigans!
• Gameplay: Use the arrow keys to move! Press A to shoot left! Press D to shoot right! Shoot the bears, don't let them get near you!
• Strategies: Bears spawn in the four corners of the map. Players would do well to stay away from corners.
• Story/Setting/Premise: You play as a young genius that has developed an ice gun. To test the combat ability of such a weapon, you enter a simulated environment with giant bears as enemies.
• Target Audience: Casual players that want to play an easy to pick up and put down game to kill time.
• Play Time: There is no (winning) end game, so it can be as long/short as you want.