Game Design Idea

Level Design Idea.

Plot: A man/woman was abandoned by a taxi driver on the road, due to some issue with the road ahead. The character is given directions quickly before the driver drove away. The character (man/woman) then travels through a natural environment (Level 1). In this level you are introduced with combat, due to a wild animal wanting to kill you. Then finally you arrive at a village (Level 2) The character wants to find the reason on why most of the population of the village has left so suddenly. With t problems talking to the villagers due to them locking themselves in there homes. the character then sets of to the main square, which he finds a clown in centre of. The clown then fights you with some help of other clowns. When the clowns are killed one of the villagers shouts you over and explains. The person explains on the history of the village and the "Killer Clowns" and where they live. This then takes you to the "Killer Clown tent" (Level 3). The villager that most of population didn't leave and in fact have been taken. Your objective is to collect (save) them before they are killed. When all the villagers are safe the character/player has to fight the boss in which eventually killed all the clowns in the place.  

An alternative story-line would be that the player is hunting down the clowns and that he has finally found there home. (The levels will be the journey for the character)

Weapons: Mostly melee but the odd fire-arm
Guns are less likely to be found compared to the melee weapons and so you will have to explore the game more to find these weapons.

An alternative style in weapons may just result into one weapon. (If we struggle to design multiple)

Genre: First Person-Shooter which allows free-roam which you can explore the map in more depth.

Platform: This would be made primarily for PC, yet could work for other platforms such as the console or mobile device.

Objects: The items and buildings will be made in Maya and anything to do with the environment or nature will be likely be taken.

Sounds: The sounds will be classic clown sounds (Laughter/footstep) and classic environment sounds (Birds/wind)
The weapons will be ordinary and have the sound of an ordinary pistol or it will sound like a toy gun.

Function of the clowns: The primary function of the clowns is to chase then kill the player.
The secondary function is to sneak behind you and kill you.
This depends on the characters (style of play) the 3 levels will have different problems.
Level 1: Is the first level and so it will contain little to no clowns. This will likely be a level for the player to get to grips on the controls and the style of the games
Level 2: This level will contain clowns that have waited for a long time for humans to arrive and so they will try to sneak up on you and kill you. 
Level 3: This level is based in there tent which they live. This results the clowns into running at the player rather than sneaking up on you due to them wanting to keep there home safe.

An alternative function of the clowns could be that they run, no matter the situation

The Main Screen: 
When in the main screen for the game it will have two options:
"Play"
"Chapter"
The title screen will have 3 original backgrounds relating to the level:
Level 1: Will have a peaceful background of a mountain side and a lake.
Level 2: Will have a village in the background with some clowns seen in the shadows.
Level 3: Will have a clown and a tent in the background.
These images will be taken when you "PrtScn" the level. The animations will be created individually.
The main title screen will be identical to the last level design with some miner tweaks.
A idea would be a clowns eye following the selected option (play/chapters) or for PC it would follow the mouse cursor.

Level 1.

This will be designed by:
This will be based in a natural environment, that is peaceful and untouched. 
This level will be set in the morning.
Ideal objects created:
Rocks, water, path, trees, mountains, grass, cliffs etc.

Information:
This level won't have any combat compared to the other levels as the characters are investigating the clown tent and they wouldn't have weapons going in, they will have to stealth their way past the clowns whilst exploring, if a player gets caught they will be chased until either the clown catches up and kills you or you lose them by finding a hiding spot, before escaping the player would have to find the room filled with all the human bodies which are encased in cocoons, the player would find their first weapon here and it would end with the player running away from a horde of clowns and out of the circus tent whilst avoiding obstacles and enemy projectiles that would slow them down. 

Level 2.
This will be designed by:
This will be based in a village that has little to no people in it, due to its stories of the "Killer Clowns"

This level will be set at mid-day. and have much vegetation due to many people not leaving there homes.
Ideal objects created:
House, rocks, grass, trees and other items related to the village etc,

Information:

Level 2 is the second level and less places for the player to hide from the clowns. The player will have the ability to find melee weapons easiest in this stage and there will ranged weapons scattered about the town. Their will be clowns in the street which you can sneak around but there will enough melee weapons to fight the clowns but not enough for you to beat all of them. 

When you head to the police station to get weapons, a clown how is controlling Officer Mooney like a puppet will attack you as a boss. The boss can use: Officer Mooney's gun, his baton and his taser. To defeat the boss you have to attack the clown that is controlling Officer Mooney, you only need to attack the clown three times but he is using Officer Mooney as a shield so you can't attack him until he let's his guard down to taunt at you.

Level 3.

This will be designed by:

This will be based in the abandoned circus which no one dares to enter.

This will be set at night. 

Most of the level will be set inside the tent, however the level will contain a outside environment.

Ideal objects created: 

Clowns, tent, environment (objects), and simple puzzles. 

Information:
Level 3 is the last level and has a much different game style in the game. In this level when you enter the tent the player will drop their gun and lose it. The player will be vulnerable to the killer clowns until the player finds a weapon of some sort. Having no weapon makes it difficult to kill the clowns which results into the player having to make up a strategy when avoiding the clowns. This makes the player go through the maze hoping they find all the collectables (survivors) before being found by a clown.
When all survivors are found a exit will be shown and which you can go through. When the player exits they have to fight a boss which cannot be damaged by bullets, yet can be damaged by the surroundings. The boss brings in a wave of clowns which you have to kill, after each wave is destroyed a item will glow that you can shoot, this will damage the boss (clown). The boss has 3 lives that results into having 3 waves, each wave gets increasingly hard.
When you kill the boss all the other clowns will be killed and all the items relating to clowns such as the tent would disappear. Then a small credit screen will appear, which would then take you to the main screen.

This game may contain environments that are used to travel the player to other levels, this will also be used to allow the player to explore and find areas that maybe of interest.
This makes the game longer, much bigger and easy to travel to certain levels.

(Alternative game brief ideas will be on my groups individual blog accounts).