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The Game
The basis of our game is survival of the fitness. The theme of the game is survival against zombies; we decided to pick this theme as the
TV show The Walking Dead seems to be very popular with viewers and a number of forum members on TIBB. Even if not a fan of Zombie’s, we have designed a game that we hope anyone will like and be eager to participate in.

To add an extra dynamic to our game we decided to let our players decide just what player they want to be; they will be given free reign on their name, their age and their gender and perhaps even their back-story as we feel this will give an extra dimension to the game, allowing the players to feel more involved and invested with the game and feel like the character they are playing. We also added in this extra as it is something that will set this game apart from other games, as we are unaware of any other games on TiBB that have included this, and it would potentially be something that would draw in applicants to our games, instead of other, more standard and traditional games, that do not have this unique aspect.

Settings of the Game
The plot follows the survivors in four main locations where players will be spending most their time during the game, the locations we have chosen are a Mansion, Farm House, Shopping Mall and a Underground Army Bunker; these locations are a homage to George A Romero’s Dead series, e.g. the Farm House (Night of the Living Dead), Shopping Mall (Dawn of the Dead), Underground Army Bunker (Day of the Dead) and the Mansion (Diary of the Dead).

The starting point will be the shopping mall, because that is how all the players meet, and will head off to new locations when the zombies have taken over that place. We have come up with an idea of a bus to transport them from location to location, which gives the players more chance of survival. At the end of the game the armed forces will come to save the survivors, however will it all go to plan?

Tasks
At each location the players will be given various tasks to perform individually. When the task is over the two players who have accomplished the lowest score, or has done the worse throughout the task will be nominated. The remaining players will then each vote for the player they want to eliminate. However, this is not the end for the player; they will have a chance to return.

How Players are eliminated
The eliminated player will go to a place we are calling the Cemetery; a sort of Redemption Island, and the eliminated player will stay there until the next eliminated player comes to the Cemetery. Both eliminated players in the Cemetery will battle against each other for the golden opportunity of returning to the game. The winner of the Cemetery battle will remain at the Cemetery, and this phase will continue until the final 10 and final 6; the two times an eliminated player could return, but that’s not it. Any Returning players will have a special power, which gives them the power to change the outcome of the nominations and eliminations.

This player will be given the power to see the results of the task and could add 50 points to someone’s grand total or subtract 50 points. For example if the task was to name as many songs with dead in the title, and the player in first had a total score had 150, while the player in last had 101, the returning player could subtract the 50 from the player in first place and move them to last.

Tasks in the game will vary, they include naming as many items as they can; these will include songs, films and listening to a handful of songs and naming as many songs as they can. Other tasks will be more intellectual like cracking codes in the fastest time or endurance where the survivors have to stay up to get more information from the host, who will post at any time; could be 4 in the morning, or half five in the afternoon.

Again at the Cemetery where two eliminated players will face off, tasks will vary, for example one Cemetery Task will be endurance where the eliminated players will have to post every five minutes and whoever can outlast the longest will remain in the game; we believe this task in particular will show how much the players want to stay in the game.

Final Six will be the last time a player can return to the game, and from then on who ever scores the lowest on the task will be automatically eliminated until we have a three final survivors; here the forum will vote for the winner.

Here is an example of how the game may plan out, Using letters as the Players:

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Reasoning behind the game
This makes it interesting as it makes the players fight to stay in the game, and as the tasks will vary, players who might be strong in one type of task and finish near the top could be rubbish at another task and find themselves in the bottom two and nominated in the next task. We believe this makes it more unpredictable.

The decision to make the players vote one another out came about because we believe that if it was the forums’ decision, players might beg forum members to keep them in, or we might have a player who is very popular against a player who might be not known on the forum that much. We believe this is a fair way of the voting system of our game. The decision to have the winner chosen by the public came about because we believe the forum should have some say in the outcome of the game. Another reason we decided to have players vote one another out was because it gives the chance for the players to vote out who they might think is their biggest competition in the game. Also we believe that with this special power we give to returning players will make players who are strong to purposely fail a task so they are eliminated to return to get the super power to change the outcome of nominations to eliminate who they think is a strong player.

We believe when it comes to forum games, players like a few twists thrown in keep them on their toes, we also want twists so the game does not become predictable or boring. Our main twist of the game is returning players; players who had been eliminated giving another chance to play. We decided to come up with this because the game might have a player that the other players dislike and they could return for revenge on the others. It also gives the chance of a player who might have had a bad day on a task and was eliminated to return because they are a strong player.

Our Homepage
This is what our home page will look like which includes the story and our logo for the game:

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The Application Form, Signature and Award

To apply to the game we came up with these questions for the application form: -

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On top of that to promote the game we decided the host would have a promotional signature which will look like this: -

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One other idea we came up with was survival cards that keeps track of each survivors progress through the game, for example : -

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The Winner of the game will of course receive a award for winning (a Walking Zombie) = http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...1&d=1352671277

We hope you enjoy our game idea, and thank you for taking the time to read through our pitch about the game.

Team Prospect