This is the picture of our tunnel machine
These are our why questions
Why do we need to dig a tunnel
Because I want to
Why do you want to dig a tunnel
Because I’m bored
Why are you bored
Because I’ve got nothing to do
Why do you have nothing to do
Because i have no friends
Why do you have no friends
Because I spent all of my time building this machine
Why do you build this machine
Because I want to dig a tunnel
Why do you want to dig a tunnel
Because I’m bored
Now there’s a loop
The ideas that our group came up with that we could create include
- Outline of game
- A space station
- A song
- A light show
I decide to create an outline of a game.
The game I design is 2d. The player would be driving the tunnel digger. He/she will be firstly placed inside the tunnel digger, with wasd controlling the character’s movement. The tunnel digger is made up of two parts. The control room and the energy room. The character shall drive the digger in the control room and eat and fuel the machine at the energy room. It’s a never ending game because the character will be stuck in the loop forever, and the character will die when there’s no food left in the energy room. Therefore, it’s a matter of how long the character can survive.
Upon entering the control room (pressing tab when close enough), the wasd will be used to control the digger. Press j to use laser to cut and k to absorb the debris and convert them to energy. This energy can be served both for the machine and the player. There will be some underground monsters that obstruct the player. But they contain more energy since they are moving creatures. Getting hit by the monster decreases HP of the machine, and this is irreversible (player can never fix the machine). Game also ends when the machine has 0 HP. When the character is hungry or when the machine is low in MP, the character needs to go to the energy room and eat/fuel. The machine is extremely vulnerable at this point. The nature of the game dictates that it’s very likely that the digger will be back at the place where it started from, thus the player will be stucked in this loop forever.