Proposal CS 460: KGB world

    Many people have played the game KGB, where you have two teams competing against each other in a kind of capture the flag setting where you have groups of people in cars and a singular group of people who are on foot and are trying to make it from point A to point B in a given geographical area while the people who are in cars attempt to catch the people who are on foot. Once caught the person is now enlisted on the other team’s side. My idea would be to bring the excitement of this kind of game play into the realm of mobile gaming, specifically the android platform, and using the power of Google Maps, we would create an application that placed the character in a Google Street View perspective and depending on what team you were on you would be either attempting to intersect paths with another player to capture them or you would be trying to stay away from other people and get to the finish location. There will also be various modes of game play as well as power ups that will be available to the player that will add to the excitement of the game. The proposed game modes will be: Standard KGB mode, Capture the flag, and Frenzy versions of both game modes that will include power ups that will modify the game play by adding a speed boost to the game or offering immunity to the player for a given amount of time. Combined with the standard game play opportunities, this will allow the game to have an infinite level of replay ability that will keep people coming back for more fun!

     This product would be marketed towards the casual gamer who has already played all the gimmick-y games that the app store has to offer and are looking for something that really engages them in an online experience with other players. Support for this project will come from the community as this game will be released open source and free of charge in the marketplace to foster a more community oriented approach to the continued development process and will allow people to feel more involved and engaged by being able to provide enhancements to the game as they become necessary.

     The specific goal of this project is to develop something that isn’t currently available anywhere, either on the android market or even in the realm of gaming in general. Currently on the android marketplace, there isn't a game that places players directly in the real world in this kind of competitive environment. Which is why this game will revolutionize mobile gaming and take it to the next level. This along with a strong community support aspect that will provide periodic updates and feature modifications/additions, this game and the way in which it engages players will become the new standard of mobile development.