DESIGN DOCUMENT

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DESIGN DOCUMENT

• THE SEVENTH
• ART SPIRIT

ANE BENGOETXEA ETXANIZ CARMEN GRAU VILA ELODIE
VESSIERES MARIA LAPIEDRA BENAVENT LUIS BRAZO
DOMINGUEZ
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INTRODUCTION
CHARACTERISTIC

• It's a 3D game in a third person perspective,
  which mixes the real world and the unreal world.
  Apart from that, this game is an adventure game
  with some R.O.L aspects.
• The game will be a multiplatform game, be able to
  play it on PSX2, XBOX and on Game Cube
• This game could be for people who love cinema or
  maybe those who want to learn while playing. This
  game is a mix of education and entertainment.

• The Seventh Art Spirit will be a game for
  everyone who is older than sixteen years old.
• In the game there are games inside by popular
  films of Steven Spielberg, like Jurassic Park
  or Indiana Jones, which including parts of
  those films. The game mix different genres.

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME

• The Seventh Art Spirit takes place in the year
  2175. The humans live on the same way form that
  we know nowadays, but on the base of new
  technologies
• The cinema loses popularity down and nobody is
  interesting in maintaining it
• But just there is a secret Community called The
  Seven Art Spirit which works saving the cinema.
• Two students who are very interested in this art
  are visiting a museum in Hollywood. There they
  meet the guide of the Community and with his help
  the character will be able to go inside the
  screen and to pass different levels which are
  different Spielberg's films.

• Regardless at the beginning the Community seems
  like a bad character, they just want to keep the
  films of Spielberg and to make tests to the
  character. They want to be sure that the
  character is really interested in the cinema.
• The character has to pass different levels to
  take different films of Steven Spielberg and each
  level is based on a film that the director has
  made
• Indiana Jones
• Jurassic Park
• E.T.
• Saving private Ryan
• Hook
• War of the words

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME

• In each level, the character has to find a
  specific film of Steven Spielberg. Between the
  levels, the character has to answer different
  questions about the real filmography of Spielberg
• At the end, the big prize will be the possibility
  of taking part of The Seventh Art Spirit, one
  interactive community that shares a lot of
  information, prizes, and different things about
  cinema, but in the real life.
• To sum this up, the mission of the character is
  to arrive to the end of the game after entering
  to different movies of Steven Spielberg and
  fighting, avoiding difficult problems and
  answering different questions about Spielberg.

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME
LEVELS INDIANA JONES

• STORY
• When the character meets the guide, they go
  inside a dark room, inside a real cinema. Here a
  strong light appears and he is captured inside
  the first level of the game, which is the movie
  of Indiana Jones.
• Indiana Jones
• Steve appears in Egypt in the year 1983
• Exactly he appears in a Bazaar in The Cairo
• MISSIONS
• The mission of the character is to find in Egypt
  the holy grail, although the character instead of
  taking the Calyx, at the end, he finds the
  Indiana Jones film of Steven Spielberg.
• SUBMISSIONS
• Investigate in the Bazaar about the holy grail
• Rescue the daughter of a moron from a big castle.
• Find a map in the Bazaar to know where the castle
  is.
• Buy matches or a lighter in the Bazaar.
• Manage to enter to the castle

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME
LEVELS INDIANA JONES

• . SUBMISSIONS
• Rescue and give the daughter to her father to
  take and read the story of the Calyx.
• Go inside a pyramid.
• Get a map of the pyramid.
• Jump through the rocks with only some vines.
• Find the book of the film
• Take the film of Indiana Jones
• Finally, the character appears again in the
  cinema and he has a conversation with the guide.
  Here, he has to answer some questions that the
  guide asks him to pass to the next level ( that
  will happened at the and of each level).

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME
LEVELS JURASSIC PARK

• Jurassic Park
• Steve appears inside the Hawaii Island.
• MISSION
• The character has to find 4 eggs in different
  parts of Hawaiis Island. Apart from that, his
  final mission consists to find Jurassic Parks
  film.
• SUBMISSIONS
• Find information about what is happening with the
  dinosaurs.
• Take the document which explains the story of the
  eggs.
• Drive a Jeep and go to different parts of
  Hawaiis Island to take the four eggs.
• When he is going to take the fourth egg, he has
  to disconnect all the wire fences.

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME
LEVELS JURASSIC PARK

• SUBMISSIONS
• Answer correctly some questions to be possible
  for him to open the doors.
• Drive his Jeep faster than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• Take the turbo that there are in the way.
• He has to avoid the trees and the piles of sand
  that there will be in the route.
• Find the book of the film
• Take the film of Jurassic Park

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME
LEVELS ET.

• E.T.
• Steve appears inside a small cottage in
  Greenland and he discovers a spaceship
• MISSION
• The character has to find three objects in
  Greenland (apples, an electronic game and a
  hanger) to help E.T. to go its home. Apart from
  that, his final mission will be to find E.Ts
  film.
• SUBMISSION
• He has to ask to some Eskimos where he can find
  different objects.
• Apart from the Eskimos, he has to ask different
  question to take those objects to other habitants
  of the town (a woman, a carpenter...).
• He has to go down town with E.T. to find a
  mechanic because the spaceship of E.T. is broken.
• They have to pass in front of a bar, where a
  radio which works with batteries is switched on.

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME
LEVELS ET.

• SUBMISSION
• They have to take the batteries to repair the
  spaceship.
• He sees the police going to the spaceship.
• He has to take the bike which is parked beside
  them.
• He puts E.T. in the basket of his bike.
• He has to ride a bike faster than the police
  until the spaceship.
• He has to look after E.T. because it goes in the
  basket of the bike.
• Find the book of the film.
• Taking E.T.s film

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STORY OF THE COMPUTER GAME
AT THE END

• Once Steve passes all the levels and returns
  agian to the cinema, he will be able to watch all
  the movies of Spielberg.
• The guide congratulates him and says to Steve
  that he is going to take part of The Seventh Art
  Spirit.
• The guide gives him a password and with this
  password Steve will be able to register on a
  website in order to have to watch the making offs
  of the game, to receive news about next games

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
NON-PLAYING CHARACTERS

• The difficulty of the game is growing up in each
  level
• All the levels are setting in different films of
  Steven Spielberg, and all of them, try to be the
  most realistic as possible
• The environment in all the levels is fantastic
  because it is based on movies
• The Artificial Intelligence is in all the levels,
  but it changes in each one, depending the test
  that the character has to do and the environment
  of the level
• INDIANA JONES
• Scene El Cairo
• In the Bazaar there are persons doing different
  actions buying things, speaking. And more of
  them can interact with him with conversations,
  stealing, sending things or to haggle with him
  when hes buying something.
• When he finds the shopkeeper, he explains him his
  next mission he has to find the shopkeepers
  daughter in the castle

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
INDIANA JONES LEVEL

• Scene Castle
• In the Castle, Steve finds different enemies who
  want to catch him. They can do different things
  like
• Keep watch on the Castle
• If the enemies watch him, they will try to take
  him, and the siren of the castle will ring. In a
  few minutes, they will be a lot of enemies around
  him
• They can fight, run after, and shoot at him
• If they take him, they enclose him in a cell and
  the game is finish for Steve
• Scene the Calyx
• He shopkeeper gives him the map with the position
  of the Calyx
• In the Pyramid are different tests and ways,
  which change depending on the way of our
  character there will be a gyratory doors, vines,
  rocks, hieroglyphic, mortal holes, murderers
  mummies, rates that bite him, poisons bats... and
  at the end, he has to go through a broken bridge.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
JURASSIC PARK LEVEL

• The environment is very real, like in the film
• In this stage the artificial intelligence is not
  important.
• He has to find the eggs and drive the Jeep. Only
  at the end, when he looks for the third egg, he
  has to disconnect the wire fence. If he cant, he
  will die electrocuted. To make that, he needs to
  open the control door which has three different
  tests
• SUDOKU
• PUZZLE
• TETRIS

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
E.T.

• The main character in this level is E.T. It tries
  to speak to Steve and to interact with him
• The actuation of E.T. is not very complex
• E.T tries to follow all the people that they meet
  in the way
• E.T can throw on to them only for following the
  other person, and Steve has to be on the alert
  for its movements.
• In this level the most important thing its that
  E.T. cant die, because them the game finishes
  for the player, and he has to start again from
  the beginning.
• Eskimos
• There are two types of Eskimos, goods and bads.
• The goods eskimos have to help Steve to answer
  some questions
• The bad eskimos try to through him out of the
  bike, and through snow balls against him or ET.
  If one snow ball hits E.T it dies for hypothermia

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GAME ELEMENTS
CHARACTERS

• Steve
• He is twenty-five years old.
• He is American and he studies anthropology and
  arts.
• He wears special jacket which protected him from
  the water.
• he always wears a very fashion watch. It has a
  world map and he can know the exactly place where
  he is thanks of a satellite link.

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GAME ELEMENTS
CHARACTERS

• Stine
• She is 25 years old.
• She is American and she studies anthropology and
  arts
• she can wear a special jacket which protected her
  from the water.
• She doesnt need the watch that Steve wears
  because shes cleverer than him.
• But Steve is stronger than her.

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GAME ELEMENTS
FRIENDS

• The guide of the Seventh art Spirit
• main member of the Community but Steve/Stine
  doesnt know it.
• At the beginning of the game the guide looks bad
  character
• he is the key to go from one level to the other.
• At the end the player discovers that hes a
  friend.
• Shopkeeper
• The moron lives in a Bazaar from Egypt.
• He wears clothes from his culture.
• he will be friend because he needs Steves help.
• His daughter is arrested in a castle
• he has very good information about The holy grail
  that Steve needs.
• Steve has to help him.

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GAME ELEMENTS
FRIENDS

• E.T
• The character needs E.T and it needs the
  character to go at home.
• The small alien looks like in the movie.
• Eskimos
• - Good Eskimos help to him to find the different
  objects he needs to help E.T.

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GAME ELEMENTS
ENEMIES

• Bandits
• They live in a castle in Egypt.
• They have arrested the shopkeepers daughter.
  They have a sword as arm.
• Snakes
• These animals try to kill Steve.
• If one of the snakes touches him, Steve will
  loose a live.
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• This animal lives in Hawaiis Island and it will
  fight with Steve.
• At the beginning of the level it is in a cage but
  at the end of the level it is going to run
  against Steve.

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GAME ELEMENTS
ENEMIES

• Eskimos
• Some Eskimos are bad characters.
• Steve has to take care because they can through
  stones to him.
• They can lie about the way and the information.
• The police
• At the end of the level of E.T they noticed that
  there is E.T.s spaceship.
• Steve has to ride a bike while he is carrying
  E.T. in the basket faster than the police.

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GAME MECHANICS

• P.O.V. (How the player sees the world)
• Seventh Art Spirit is a 3D game, recreating
  different places located around the world, such
  as the Cairo, Greenland.
• The game mixes a real world with fantastic
  situations.
• the game look like it has to be the more
  realistic as possible, recreating all the details
  we can see in our real world.
• The characters movements will be the more
  realistic as possible
• to recreate the character's and other human's
  movements it will be a good idea to use "the
  motion capture" technique.
• The game is focused in exploration and action.
• It's an adventure game with some ROL actions,
  such as the puzzles and the character's
  conversation she must have to find different
  objects or budgets to be able to continue.

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GAME MECHANICS

• Third person game.
• The player will see the character's back all in
  the perspective she choose, because she will have
  different camera options while she's playing.
• The player also will have the camera option "see
  the world around my eyes". With this point of
  view, the character will not be able to move, and
  the action will pass to be a kind of a first
  person game.
• During the game play, the player won't be able to
  save the game. The game will save automatically
  when the character has done a specific action or
  when he has reached to a specific area in the
  level he is.

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GAME MECHANICS

• SYSTEM MENUS
• NEW GAME
• LOAD GAME
• OPTIONS The player can choose the games
  brightness, the volume of the sound and effects,
  the screen options (169 or 34 formats).
• While the player is playing and she "pauses" the
  game, she will "open" the character's bag. There
  will be different information.

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GAME MECHANICS

• PICKING UP , USING and LEAVING OBJECTS
• The player will have to decide what she wants to
  keep in the bag, because she will only have the
  possibility to carry on a limited number of
  objects in the bag (4 for Stine, and 6 for
  Steve).
• The objects will give the option to know for what
  they can be used, never revealing what they are
  going to do in the level.

• MOVEMENTS
• The controls are designed taking in mind the
  latest consoles (PSX2, GAMECUBE and XBOX)
• - Up, Left, Right (Analogy Controller)
• - Down (Analogy controller)
• - Left-pad
• - Action (RigRight-Pad Left button)
• - Right- Pad Up button
• - Right-Pad down button
• - Left trigger
• - Right trigger
• - ht-Pad Right button)

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GAME MECHANICS

• CAMERA and LOOKING
• third person perspective or in a first person
  perspective.
• Referring to the third perspective camera
  options, the camera always has to provide the
  player a good view of the environment, and if
  its necessary, the camera will change to another
  perspective that is not a third person one
  Anyway, the camera has to pass to a third person
  perspective as fast as possible to dont confuse
  the player.

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GAME MECHANICS

• TALKING and READING
• - The player will always start a conversation or
  will read something pressing the action button
  but in the cut scenes, because those are
  automatically generated by the console and the
  player becomes an observer.

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GAME MECHANICS

• LIVES AND SCORE
• Our character will only have a unique life, like
  in the real life.
• When Steve dies, the player will start in the
  place that the console has restored the action.
• Each level will give the player the possibility
  to continue 3 times, 3 continue for each level.
• The player will be able to continue in a specific
  place once it reached and the console restored.
• The character will die in different kind of
  situations. In each level, the character will die
  in different form, and then the player wont know
  how the characters die.
• He will die like a real person. This will force
  the player to make the character acts like a
  human.
• The game will not have score.