Replay GS Team - HopeBlocks - Imagine Cup 2010 Game Design Round 2

We are the Replay GS Team, and this is our entry for round 2 of Imagine Cup's 2010 Game Design competition.

We hope you like it!

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Currently, our planet is facing a variety of problems, and this fact is known worldwide. In order to simplify and help solving those problems, the United Nations (UN) established the Millennium Development Goals, which every country should achieve by 2015.

The question that remains in the air is: what can be done in order to solve these problems?

Based on Imagine Cups 2010 theme, we have developed a game that promotes cooperation between players and educates them about how technology can be a powerful ally in the effort of helping the world solve its toughest problems.

HopeBlocks is a fairly simple game, where the main idea is to gather resources, and invest them to create solutions. From our point of view, resources are extremely valuable assets, and thus, we decided to represent them by jewelry.

The game guides you through a campaign, where youre invited to use your management skills to help territories achieve the Millennium Goals. Each territory has its unique percentages and specific problems, and its up to you to solve them properly.

During the matches, you will be playing along with 3 other players, humans or computers. If there are other human players in the game, it means that you will all be playing cooperatively, and your objectives will be one. In other words, you must help each other out.

The campaign is quite simple - every territory has some common aspects, such as quests and solutions. The quests are missions that you must finish, in order to earn points and unlock new quests. Once youve finished all the quests from a territory, the next territory will be unlocked for you to play and help.

The gameplay screen is where the action happens. The players will always have resources in hand, and their objective is to invest them on the territory, by making combinations. Sometimes, anonymous resource donations may pop up on the board, and they might be very useful to achieve certain marks. You can also call for assistance from the Specialists, who are very good at finding scattered resources, but their price is high, so you must use them wisely.

Completing a quest will earn you resource and technology points, based on how many resources youve invested during the match. These points represent subsidies for further investments on solutions.

The solutions are a very important part on HopeBlocks, because they represent substantial investments, such as the making of a hospital or improvements on primary schools conditions.

Aside from the campaign, you may play quick matches with your friends, locally or through a network, with no need for network configurations everything is made automatically. You may also play on your own, adding artificial intelligence players before the match starts.

HopeBlocks also has an integrated feature with the Windows Live Games system, allowing you to use your WLG profiles to play, as well as talking through the Live Voice Chat. If you dont have a headset or dont want to speak, you may also chat through text with your friends in the room, before starting the match.

HopeBlocks proves that a game is able to bring enlightenment and awareness to players, while still being fun and attractive. We, from the Replay GS Team, believe the necessary resources to solve the problems already exist, and that theres only one thing missing efficient management , but it requires some hard work and good will.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• game
• design
• imagine
• cup
• 2010
• hopeblocks
• 2d
• help
• world

[Kolger]

@tuliovinicius1210 Opa, valeu, cara! :P

Mas essa é a versão de 2010, não a desse ano, que tá muito melhor! ^^

Procura por hopeblocks 2011 que dá pra ver :D

Abraço!

[tuliovinicius1210]

Aew Luca!

Show de bola esse jogo!

Parabéns pra tu e tua equipe!

Tou na torcida por vocês

Abraço