I want my game to be for a young audience, from the ages of 10 and 16. I've chosen the audience as my first port of call so I can then decide from there, appropriate themes and styles. I want my game to also be suitable for girls and boys, so it has a wider audience rather than key on one gender.
Here's a brainstorm on a few themes I think would make a good start for the young teenage players.
- Spooky Horror: I've added 'Scooby Doo Style' to this as lots of gore, blood and violence would be very unsuitable. Scooby Doo has that essence of horror but not in a terrifying way. It has lots of slapstick moments which have a great comical value. Age ratings become a big factor here. Perhaps this could be a race and chase game, running away from a cartoon zombie or a mummy.
- Christmas Theme: Reindeer, Igloos, Santa Claus, Elves. They could drop presents down chimneys for children and have to avoid buildings or birds while flying as Santa. Perhaps a game set in 'Santa's factory' where you play as an elf and have to join together certain parts to make toys and then wrap them with the correct wrapping.
- Animals/Animal Behaviour: Bears, Snakes, Lizards, Fish. Could be a bear by the river, having to collect salmon as they swim up stream and feed your cubs. Lizards, could be a chameleon catching flies. Fish escaping from a net, or a shark. Predator/Prey scenario's.
- Princess/Unicorns: Rainbows, Princes. Could be something similar to say 'Shrek'. Being chased by an ogre or a Prince going to rescue a Princess, defeating an ogre. Jumping over rainbows with a unicorn collecting magical dust. Anything crazy like that.
- Pirates/Tropical Island: Survival on a desert island, collecting fruit and such. Battling with other pirate ships, cannons etc. Perhaps you work up from a deck scrubber all the way up until you become the captain of the ship.
- Space/Sci-Fi/Rocket Ships: Gliding through space, you're ship has lost cargo and you have to go around collecting all the bits. Players could fly to the moon on a rocket ship, searching for life. Something to do with the stars, aligning them to make pictures and words.
- Fantasy Creatures/Quest Adventure: On a Pokémon style, you could raise creatures to battle and fight while doing quests etc. An RPG where you level a Warrior or Mage, characters along those lines. A really generic RPG are really rare on the Apple market currently.
