Saturday, January 5, 2013

Centipede..


The Game Centipede is developed and run by Atari arcade. The game is simple and fun to play. The game portraits a piece of farm where insects such as spiders and centipede comes to destroy the fruits grown. If the insects comes in contact with the farmer, a character in the game who kills the insects, then the farmer dies 


and the game points will be lost. The objective of the user is to destroy the incoming insects. Total destruction of the insects will lead to a Win. As on increasing the levels the game becomes more challenging that the number and speed of the incoming insects increases.  The game was over all a good good experience.



Interactivity- The game provides a good level of interactivity and the graphics and the background scenario with the sound effects enhances the game play. The game demands the user to shoot down the incoming insects using the space bar key. The games response to the user inputs or controls are impressive. It just demands the user for higher level of accuracy in the later stages of the game.
Concept: The concept is simple. The game is basically fun game, which shows a piece of farm land where some insects comes to destroy the farm. These insects should be killed in order to win the game.

Setting: The setting given to the game in facts gives an extra edge to the game play. The scenario is a Farm. In the game the player is the one protecting the farm by killing the insects that the crops remain damaged.


Goal: The ultimate goal of each level is to destroy all the incoming insects and protecting the crops from getting destroyed. 


Challenge: The game offers intermediate difficulty. The game may feel less challenging at the initial stages of the game. With the increase of the level the difficulty also increases and it becomes challenging to protect the site. The challenge is to maintain accuracy of firing with the increase speed and number of the incoming insects. 

Story: The game doesn't provide a detailed story line, but with the in game characters it is evident the farmer of the gamer is fighting to protect the crops from insect attacks.


Actions: 
The basic action involved
 (1) Moving is controlled by arrow keys where Left arrow is for Left movement, Right arrow for Right movement and  up and down arrow keys for upward and downward movements respectively.
 (2) Shooting is controlled by space bar. 

Game play:
Game play can be described as a race to the end type, where the player have to destroy all the incoming insects in order to win the game.
Age Framework :


http://www.atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/centipede/play

No comments:

Post a Comment