Overview

This is an endless racing game where the main character has to escape from deathly attacks. By collecting items, Jason, the main character will be able to gain different powers to help him survive the escape run.

Influences

Types of Influences

• Game Mechanics
• Events, Music Theme
• Playing Style

Forza Horizon 4 (Game Mechanics)

Forza Horizon 4 is a 2018 racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios [1]. It provides multiple perspective modes, e.g. hood, cab or trunk perspectives. These perspectives can be used in the game to provide more options for the users to improve the user experience. For example, if a user prefers an immersive experience, he can choose the cab perspective.

Ski safari（Game Mechanics）

Ski Safari is a thrilling parkour game developed by Yodo1, LTD. In the game, you can complete all kinds of difficult skiing moves, you can also cooperate with animals to escape, pick up different gears and different animals to accelerate, and game over when avalanche touched the main character [2].

Dark Souls series (Game Mechanics)

Dark Souls series are RPG/ARPG games developed by FromSoftware [3]. Their death punishment mechanic improves players' vigilance against failure, resulting in a more focused gaming experience. This mechanic can be implemented in this game to achieve that too. By depriving the player of the items he has obtained or playing when he dies.

Hans Zimmer - Interstellar main theme (Music Influence)

This is theme music [4], pure music can give people a calm but sad feeling when the end is coming. When players are influenced by music during the game, they will easily bring emotions into the background of the game.

God Don't Hear Dead Men (Music Influence)

Background music when the main character is in crisis [5].

Show Me Your True Face (Music Influence)

Background music when the main character is about to fall into crisis [5].

GunZ Dash（Game Mechanics & Playing Styles）

"GunZ Dash is an arcade side-scrolling game that has your character continuously running in pursuit of that evil, vampire-Esque villain who abducted a friend of his [6]." Affected by this game, we can design our gameplay as a two-dimensional horizontal scrolling element. Players can obtain new characters and unlock new features by passing levels. The game mechanism is the endless running mode. Players can pick up props to enhance themselves and eliminate obstacles/monsters. The character has three lives in total, and the level needs to be restarted after all of them are lost.

Risk of Rain 1/2 (Game Mechanics)

Risk of rain is a roguelike game series containing two games, the player needs to eliminate a great variety of alien creatures and enemies to progress and win the game. The player can get items to boost attributes, but time-consuming. However, speed is a crucial factor in both games because enemies will become more and more dangerous (High damage and carry shield). Player has to balance their strength and time or unable to survival from flooding enemies. The game mechanism that requires players to balance the time required to increase their strength in each scene or level can be used for reference. This restriction can give players additional pressure to progress.

Hades (Game Mechanics)

Hades is a roguelike game with a complete storyline. The player cannot pass the level at first due to unfamiliarity with the game or insufficient attributes. As players keep trying, the materials earned allow players to upgrade their attributes. Players can become familiar with the game and increase the power of the character in constant attempts until the game is completed. This game mechanism can stimulate the player to continue trying by giving 'treats' when the player fails. It is one of the game mechanisms worth referring to. Not only that, players need to continue to pass levels to advance the development of the plot, which will prevent players from falling into a boring 'scoring' cycle.

Dying Light (Playing Style)

Dying light is a game story is to follows an undercover agent named Kyle Crane who is sent to infiltrate a quarantine zone in a Middle-eastern city called Harran [7]. This influences Ragnorok Racer's main character to be able to collect items to power themselves up similar to Dying Light where the player has to collect items to protect themselves. The item policies are slightly different as in Ragnorak Racer, the items require durability, the buffs will fade after a certain period of time, whereas resources will remain in the player's backpack.

Temple Run (Game Mechanics)

Temple Run is a 3D endless running video game developed and published by Imangi Studios. The player controls an explorer who has obtained an ancient relic and runs from demonic monkey-like creatures chasing him [8]. This influenced Ragnarok Racer to obtained an endless world where the main character, Jason, will be running to escape from attacks. This game should also allow the player to pause their progress when they exist since it's a single-player game, players will be able to resume the game from the previous location after re-opening the game application.

Reference

[1]"Forza Horizon 4 - Wikipedia", En.wikipedia.org, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forza_Horizon_4. [Accessed: 12- Aug- 2021].

[2]BaiDuBaiKe. 2021. Ski safari_baidubaike. [online] Available at: https://baike.baidu.hk/item/%E6%BB%91%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E5%86%92%E9%9A%AA/10905762 [Accessed 12 August 2021].

[3]"Dark Souls - Wikipedia", En.wikipedia.org, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls. [Accessed: 12- Aug- 2021].

[4]Cinémavore, Interstellar Main Theme - Extra Extended - Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. 2014.

[5]Bgm from Outlast 2.

[6]C. Hughes, A. Parnala, P. Cañete, A. Encarnacion, P. Cañete and A. Encarnacion, "WeChat’s GunZ Dash App Overview", NoypiGeeks, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://rc.pxlg.pw/apps-games-softwares/wechat-gunz-dash-app-overview/. [Accessed: 12- Aug- 2021].

[7]"Dying Light - Wikipedia", En.wikipedia.org, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Light. [Accessed: 12- Aug- 2021].

[8]"Temple Run - Wikipedia", En.wikipedia.org, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Run. [Accessed: 12- Aug- 2021].