Charlotte Fels

Story

Timmy is a 9 year old boy. Like most kids his age, he is very curious and loves exploring things. He might be slightly more clever than is good for him, a nosy know-it-all would describe him well. A bit of a goody two-shoes, his peers don’t always appreciate this, but his heart is in the right place.

Timmy is playing in the sandbox in the backyard. It is getting late in the day, Timmy is starting to get a bit tired. He rubs with his hand in his eye when he sees a flash in the sky. Confused he looks up, what was that, was he imagining that? Then he sees it again, a beam in the sky. Curiously he stares at the growing object that seems to be coming straight at him. Once it gets really close, he can hear it whistle. Slowly he takes a few steps back. “Mooooom..?” He yells over his shoulder. But she doesn’t hear him.

Loudly it crashes in your sandbox, it could not have been much bigger than a shoebox. Smoking it lies there, as Timmy approaches it with caution. A dry cough comes from the UFO, when Timmy closes in he sees the tiniest door he has even seen open. A little being tries to crawl outside, obviously weakened. Heavily panting it drags his legs outside, then drops its head on the floor and goes unconscious.

With his thumb and index finger, Timmy picks up the little creature and examines it. As it does not move anymore, he decides to bring it inside to his bedroom. He puts the little man on his dresser, thinking it would be a fun toy to play with later.

Hoofar is an adorable little alien, who comes from the planet Marduk. He has the cute looks of a fox; big furry ears and melting brown eyes. His personality does not always match his appearance however. He is clever, has a positive, fun attitude but is very sarcastic and does not always get on with everyone. Mainly because he does not know how to filter himself, so speaks whatever comes up in his mind.

Hoofar is the crown prince of Marduk. Marduk is the ruling planet over three other planets. His whole life, Hoofar has been in jeopardy because of aliens opposing his parents. They aimed for Hoofar a lot, to kill the one and only heir. His parents kept him safe, locked away behind the castle walls. In the castle he had plenty people to socialise with, but it did make him somewhat arrogant. No one ever dared to talk back to him. He did try every now and then to sneak out of the castle, without success. But there was also plenty of naughty stuff for him to do inside of the castle.

The conflicts on the planet kept multiplying, until a war broke out. The army of his people was weakening, and the amount of assassination attempts at his life kept growing. Closer and closer they managed to get to Hoofar, until he had enough of it. He was still young at this time, only Timmy’s age. Hoofar was sick of always being locked up, he could not help his people. If he just went away, everything would be alright. Or so he thought. He broke out of the castle and stole a spaceship, and went off in space, thinking he was safe. He was wrong.

He was only gone shortly, when the enemies caught his scent and started following him. A dramatic chase commences in space, until the enemies get a good shot at him and damage Hoofar’s ship badly. This is when he crashes on earth. The enemies follow him to where he crashed, but then see a giant approaching Hoofar’s spaceship. As they had never encountered such a being before, they decided to lay off first until they had made a plan of action.

His parents in the meantime are worried sick about their son. Witnesses had told them what happened, and they send a rescue party after Hoofar. Hoofar however is unaware of this, and simply does not trust anyone coming after him. In his eyes, everyone is after his life.

At the start of the game, Hoofar is still unconscious in Timmy’s room, who has gone to sleep. Hoofar’s enemies sneak into the bedroom, they have decided to take out the threat called Timmy. With their alien weapons they shoot at him, but this has a completely different effect to him than they thought it would. Instead of paralysing the giant, they shrink him to their size! Timmy then wakes up, confused that everything suddenly is so massive. In the meantime, Hoofar made his way over to Timmy’s bed. “Come, come we have to hide, now!” he shouts at Timmy. “They’re coming after us!” Timmy manages to collect himself, and in this new, amazing world he flees from unknown enemies together with his strange ally.

Start of the game – The bedroom (scene 1)

The player starts playing at the moment that Timmy wakes up, disoriented in his bedroom. Suddenly a little guy is shouting in your ear, saying you have to help him out. This will make the player have to immediately focus, and gets him right into the action. It is dark outside, making the start creepy and scary. Especially from a kid’s point of view; all your toys are suddenly gigantic and unfamiliar. With dark, beaming eyes they stare down at you. In this first scene the enemies will not find him, not even if the player does not go hide or run at all. This so the player has time to explore the world for a while, without being able to go game-over. Hoofar will however, if the player takes too long, start encouraging him to hurry up. “Come on, it’s a life or death situation over here!” Only once Timmy gets to a certain checkpoint, the enemies will appear again (for example, the lego castle).

Description

Timmy is about the size of a phone on its side. If you look through the camera on your phone this way, it will give you a feel of what the proportions should be like. He is light, and can jump from quite high but will never take damage from landing.

The controls are like the usual fps games, mouse for controlling the camera.

The graphics will be cartoon style, to make it look fun and cheerful. Although the start of the game might be dark and scary, not the whole game will be like that. This way, a lot of atmospheres will be achieved easier.

Each room will be a scene, though within a scene you can start another scene. For example, Timmy’s bedroom is one big room. He can freely roam around in this. In his room he has built a big Lego castle. This Lego castle will form a new scene, where he will be fighting the enemies. This is so the scenes will not be too heavy. This castle the player can leave again as he wishes, and return to the ‘bigger’ scene.

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