Minigame World - Design Document
Minigame World is a social massively multiplayer world with minigames, playable on Web, Desktop and Mobile (Discord, Steam, Itch). The style is watercolor, and you walk and play minigames (chess, word match, hangman, etc.) with focus on customization and socializing.
Overview
Minigame World is an online world where players select a character and customizes it, can play minigames with other people while earning highscores and getting new world items.
The world is isometric, movement with mouse, keyboard or touch. The character can play minigames by entering an attraction/ride with tickets and joining a game with other people.
The player will be able to customize his character, clothes and special items. As he plays more, he will also gain special items by either winning a lot of times or winning against a number of players or gaining a specific score in a game. This will also unlock special modes of games.
There will be different regions, such as a cold region, where there will be classical games.
The heart of the game are the minigames. In each minigame players select an avatar and when players are ready the game starts. Each game has 3 rounds.
The game will be massively multiplayer online with up to 100 players visible on screen at a time.
In case of game ever going out in 10-20 years, a copy of the server and instructions on how to run will be provided to the community.
Plot and Setting
The world is set in an amusement park with 3 main zones:
Classical Games Zone: This zone will be the ice zone, and it will contain games frozen in time.
- TicTacToe: Play 1v1 TicTacToe.
- Chess: Play 1v1 Chess.
Word Games Zone: This zone will be the fire zone, containing quick and unforgiving games.
- Hangman: Play hangman with up to 2-99 people.
- Word Match: Play word match with up to 2-99 people.
Card Games Zone: This zone will be the sand zone, and it will contain slow paced games, same as how long it takes for sand to form.
- Memory Card Game: Play 1v1 memory card game.
- GoFish: Play GoFish against 2-5 people.
Gameplay
The world map will contain collectables that will be in areas that are harder to reach. When entering a new game zone, there will be a sliding menu from right to left where you can select to join a game.
There will be several powerups which can be earned that give special abilities to the player while traveling on the world map:
- Jump further (shoes)
- Fly for a short duration (wings)
- Sprint (bungee jumping)
- Grab to things (Hook)
- Walk Upwards (Stair)
- Telephone (teleport to a friend)
- Sticky Note (teleport back to it)
- Binoculars (play any game from anywhere)
Throughout the world, there will be different tiles that in the world:
- Ice block (slippery) + direction change block
- Breakable block (need hammer to break)
- Door (need key to open)
- Trigger Block (open door)
Marketing
The game will be marketed on twitter / discord / reddit / youtube. It will launch as early access and free on steam, discord, itch and mobile. The idea is to also integrate it with streamers as to make it big.
Development
The initial world map and some example minigames should be done in 3-6 months, and additional minigames can be added after.
Example pitch from diablo:
