Incoming

#2 INCOMING!
Genre - Sports?, Multiplayer, Vs. Technique
Premise - A fairly straight-forward game involving balls with which to score, movable, mutating units to affect and direct said balls, and goals with layered defenses.
Multiplayability - Version 1: 3-5/6 Version 2: 4/5
Target Market(startup, endup, audience) - This is meant for Nonoba as a first and last stop, a free game available to the public to show what we can do together...and that I can concept a simple multiplayer game that is fun to play over and over. We'll see...
Nonoba APIs - Multiplayer, Data?
Purchase Features - None.
Gameplay - In Version 1, 3-6 players join in an arena, each gets a ball rolling in play, and the madness begins to score goals on any of the other players, to keep your ball under control and in play, to interfere with the movement of opponent balls, and defend your own goal against scoring. Each player starts with a certain number of balls in reserve and can earn more as their gamescore climbs, but balls can be lost out-of-control from the arena, destroyed by enemy balls or snatched up in goals.
Version 2 features teams of three or four cooperative players trying to score on a single player acting as goalie. Each offensive player fills a specific role on a team, his control unit affecting the ball in one way, if he chooses to employ its "ability". Goalies host the V2 games. Either version may have time limits or point targets which ends the game when reached.
Options - Just role/"ability" selection for Version 2, and sound effects and music OFF. Extra balls are possible, and equalization of preferred time and point limits.
Inputting Controls - Very extensive for Version 1, less so but still 12-18 keys for Version 2 offenders. Moving the control unit requires up to an 8-14 key spread. Gravity snagging requires up to 8 digits of the numerical scale. Defense of a goal requires a SHIFTed spead of 18+ keys alone. Control unit conversion requires 5+ keys.
Saved Data - Extensive, overall and specific stats in Vers. 1 and Team and Defender records in Vers. 2.
Maps - To start, four symmetrical arenas, one each for 3/4/5 & 6 players each in Version 1, and two or three asymmetrical arenas for Version 2. After that, new arenas as may be deemed necessary or requested by any growing player base, with growing complexity.
Menues Walkthrough - Waiting room, where games in progress and waiting players are listed. Settings screen, where players can optionally select a time or score limit and handicap themselves. Personal statistics overview, updated after every game played.
Color Schemes/Graphic Style - Sharp and colorful.
Playability Scope - Severely limited by ridgid game elements, but all sorts of cool and wacky elements could be added if needs be. The main attraction will be the equality of gameplay elements, balanced against the skills, strategy and teamwork of the players. The lack of preset computer AI elements should be a plus too...
Storyline - None.
Characters - None.
Computer Player AI - None.
Physics Driver - Impact/deflection, accel/deceleration, magnetism/gravity. More?
Bits&Pieces - Nothing to add.