1. A Game Treatment By: Michael Alff
Race Bots
A Game Treatment
By:
Michael Alff

2. Game Story
The year is 2199.
You are Roid, a promising young droid out to prove yourself.
After several orbits of isolated practice, you finally qualified as the youngest ever droid to race in the Plas-Circuit Races.
The first race begins at the 487th clock cycle of the planets 51st rotation of the 2199th orbit around the sun.
By winning consecutive gold metals, Roid wins the Bolt Cup.
Time to spill Oil!!!

3. Appearance Complete 3D immersive world Race Tracks
Fantasy/cartoon feel to the environment
Natural Environment as Primary design theme
Technology is secondary theme
Race Tracks
More or less circular
Standard path to complete a lap outlined by rough terrain that slows velocity
Contains several obstacles
Boost patches
Speed reducing patches
Off limits areas
Each track follows a generic level theme.
Third Person Racing game
Self adjusting camera behind player

4. Appearance Interface Player HP Left Weapon Equipped
Lap Position / Radar
Laps Complete
Time
Crosshairs / Targeting Mechanism
Player
Humanoid looking robot
Pilots a racer (looks as if sitting inside a go-kart)
CPU Racers are similar in general with different color / detail to define uniqueness.

5. Player Roles & Actions 3 Unique Racers Types Tank Hovercraft Jet Kart
Highest HP
Tight Steering
Slow attack rate / High Dmg per hit
Long range attack (single shot gun)
Hovercraft
Medium HP
Loose Steering
Medium attack rate / medium Dmg per hit
Melee attack range (laser lance)
Jet Kart
Medium Steering
Fast attack rate / low Dmg per hit
Medium attack range (machine gun)

6. Player Roles & Actions Limited Weapon use that recharges with non-use.
Limited turbo / evade use that recharges with non-use.
8 racers per race (up to __ humans ???)
Same or Mixed units
Non-Human Races fill in rest of 8 racers
First to complete 3 laps wins race
1st Place is 8 points
2nd Place is 5 points
3rd Place is 3 points
Most points after 3 races wins level and gets trophy
Blow up other racers to slow them down
Temporarily stalled
Recharge weapons & turbo/evade

7. Player Roles & Actions Evade other races attacking player
Collect Track Power Up’s
Temporary heightened velocity
HP boost
Weapon Power Up’s
Controls
Accelerate
Decelerate
Fire Weapon
Turbo / Evade
Game pad to steer
Horn Button (Generates a sound for comic value)

8. Strategies & Motivations
Designed for game pad controller
Similar to games such as Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, etc
Different racer types allow different terrain reactions
Ex. hovercraft over water
Ex. paths only accessible by Jet Kart
Paper, rock, scissor effect with racers
No single best strategy
All racer types have advantages and disadvantages
Both a race and shooter game

9. Level Summary / Story Progression
4 uniquely themed levels
(1 level for sure, others if time permits)
3 tracks per level
Level Themes
Robot City
Volcanic Island
Desert Plains
Ocean Level
Most points for all track of a level beats level
Subsequent levels locked until previous mastered
Trophy as reward with cut-scene for award ceremony
Completing all levels yields the Bolt Cup and unlocks bonus battle mode

10. Development Specification
Hardware
Graphics Accelerated PC (Modern Standard)
Game Pad Controllers (USB / PS / PS2)
USB to PS/PS2 Converters
Software
Visual C++?
Unreal Tournament 2004 Editors Edition
Maya / 3D Studio?
Notepad ++
Algorithm Style
AI for CPU racers (2 parts)
Race AI - Search for waypoints that allow lap completion
Attack AI – Fire on opposing racers
Simple Searching Algorithms (Depth First, Beam First, Breadth First, Hill Climbing, A*, Best First, etc)

11. Questions?