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=**Introduction to Games Design**=

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Sean Winston

http://seanwinston.yolasite.com

Careful with imagery - is that *your* banner image? Ooohh, I *do* like the names of the heroes! What an excellent one sentence summary. Mebbes add an adjective or two to the robots noun - 'two something robots' - just an idea. Be careful in case Banana Man is IP protected as he was a kids' TV programme character in the 80's. By the end of the page I am sold on the idea - build it!!

Ooohh, nice 'watch this space' pun at the end page. On the other hand, 'Exzon' might be OK as there is no clear reference (I can see) to US multinational oil companies. Doc Kane sounds rather bland (mebbes as I have uncle O'Kane! who is a really nice guy!) - better name? Now ... are these images yours? If not you may have problems if you don't reference their source. I usually think that if someone posts imagery online and it is used for education (not commercial) purposes then there isn't a problem, as long as you acknowledge your sources. [Ah, I see you have done this later; stick a date on your copyrights]

How does the game play differently if you play Zip or Zap? This would be good, and not necessarily very difficult to code in a real game (make one an AI sidekick that balances player choice character?). I would differ on the general music background, but I could well be wrong, but I imagine it played with a typical 180-200bpm corny space-war soundtrack rather than an eerie umming and aahing. But, I could well be wrong!

Not sure about the ref to MS Vista; it came, it stumbled, it fell ... I do like the ideas to push the franchise further out in future - this is good as a game-selling hook to get ££ in to develop it or someone to host it.

Overall: I wouldn't suggest you do much more to this doc expect mebbes add some screen and vid caps once game is done. Good work.