Bibliography

Born Free (2018) Wild Animal Ban for Circuses in England. Available at: https://www.bornfree.org.uk/news/news-wild-animal-ban-for-circuses-in-england/ (Accessed: 08/01/25) Davis, J. (2002) Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States: The University of North Carolina Press. READ MORE

Market

My target audience is players between the ages of 12-25, and rated PEGI 12+. My game exists within the adventure genre, a genre with a wide appeal among gaming audiences. Recent research has shown that the adventure genre is one READ MORE

Platform

I think the most appropriate platform would be PC, using mainly WASD movement controls to move around the map. The benefit of PC is the accessibility, since I think this game is best suited to more casual players. There is READ MORE

Sound

Ambience The ambience is the foundation of the audio in games, and is important in creating a layered and believable environment within a game. Travelling Using MyNoise, I created an example of the kind of ambient noise that the player READ MORE

Levels

Each Circus level will have around 3 rounds. Between each level is a Travelling mode, where the player will get the opportunity to befriend the people in the circus, therefore gaining new potential skills during Set-Up Mode. There will be READ MORE

Mechanics

Travelling Mode During this mode, the player can travel around the train cars and the Pie car to talk and befriend the other members of the circus. When the player talks to certain players enough, and has enough successful interactions, READ MORE

Art

Characters Peters, Maximino ‘Maxi’ – Player Character Maxi and his mother immigrated to Mainesboren as political refugees from Menuss Lara when Maxi was 11. His mother became incredibly reclusive, paranoid and completely agoraphobic and by the time Maxi was 14 READ MORE

Story

Gameworld The Dragon Empire was originally one unified Empire, but it split into three different countries named after the three types of Dragons, Masbaalis, Xuharo and Shimgor. 454 years ago it split, having been a worldwide force that lasted around READ MORE

Gameplay

I want to represent the stress by having the set-up mode timed, with added confusion by having different abilities to control through which have different rules. There will be two main gameplay modes, ‘Travelling’ and ‘Set-Up’. When the game starts, READ MORE