Monday, April 11, 2011

Design Techniques

Create a game using 'I Wandered lonely as a cloud'.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced;
but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company:
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


The purpose of the game i have come up with is to get the golden daffodil, an extra large, glowing golden daffodil, standing in the middle of a huge bed of shining daffodils. You start on the poet's couch, which hangs from the lonely cloud, above the lake. If you fall off the couch into the lake, you have to start again. You play the part of the poet, who has to gather thoughts to temporarily inflate the cloud enough to lift you up to a starry area. You now have a limited time to gather stars, which are sucked into the cloud. When you sink down again, the stars fuel the cloud and cause it to float towards the flowers. The process then starts again, but at increased difficulty.
When you reach the daffodils, they dance, and the golden daffodil is picked up, sending the cloud and couch flying off into the stars.

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