Game Design – Fairytale
September 26th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
The three little pigs puzzle game.
Doesn’t follow the story particularly closely but hopefully the theme/fantasy is there. You’re a pig building your house (or a fortress! In my mind it looks somewhat like tetris but with the opposite objective…)
You take materials from your surrounding area and push them towards your building. You can vary the structure you build, certain formations will be more stable than others. The materials available also vary. Straw is most abundant, followed by sticks then bricks which are rarer. Straw is also the most flimsy building material while bricks are the sturdiest.
Once in a while the wolf comes along and you have to run into your house to hide. The wolf will huff and puff to blow the house down. Parts of your house will be damaged depending on how stable it is. If the house is still standing after the attack the wolf will go away for a while. You survive to see another day and return to reinforcing your castle.
As time progresses, the wolf gets stronger and perhaps gets some friends. (Possibly there could be cameo appearances by other fairytale characters like little Red Riding Hood and her wolf. If your house is big enough Red will run into your house to hide and then there will be two wolves after you from then on!)
The game ends when the wolf blows your house down and eats you and your friends 
