Competition Analysis

Super Mario Bros.

• Level Design

  

  Level is split into different sections: slow beginning, introduction to parkour and then enemies. That builds up tension and exploration, because players are looking forward to what happens next.

  Source

• Camera: Virtual Camera System

• GUI: World, Timer, Coins, Points

  

  Source

• Platform: Console

• Venue: Living room, LAN party?

• Game Space: Divided in Space

• Lights: Indirect

• Interesting design decisions:

  • Different types of tubes (extra rooms, opponents, nothing) with the same design

• Decision options for the player

  • Freely movable player

  • Can jump into ‘nothingness’

  • → Dies as feedback for the wrong decision

  • Can jump on opponents

  • ?-blocks

    
    

Feuer und Wasser (Fire and Water)

• Camera: Fixed

• GUI: Timer

• Platform: Web

• Game Space: Web

• Lights: Indirect

• Interesting Design Decisions:

  • Different coloured water (red can only pass through red water, blue only through blue water)

  • Boxes: Pressure plates, steps

• Decision options for the player

  • Free moving players

  • Can jump into the wrong water

    → Dies as feedback for the wrong decision