Idea Info Name: Alpha Wolf Index: Primary Category: Adventure Submitted: 5/8/2003 12:57:07 AM Written By: error404 Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition Book Highly Recommended !

MAIN IDEA

In this game you start out as the omega wolf in a pack of eight. Although your main objective is to become an Alpha wolf, you have to do many things first, such as prove yourself worthy. As an Omega, the lowest rank and the scapegoat as the pack, you have to do some things such as kill lots of prey, save another wolf and obey the alpha and all the others. There will be free play to explore, but occassionaly, missions will be assigned, such as "kill 3 deer to compensate for the food shortage", "help the delta wolf take down the moose", or even "save the beta wolf from the cougar". Eventually, the Alpha will trade you in for the Theta wolf, the second lowest rank. Finally, the true innovative of the game begins. You can control the Omega, and assign him, say, to help you kill an animal, or move a log to cross a bridge. Special techniques will now be opened, and since you have two wolves, you can explore deeper into the forests, so in case you're hurt, the Omega wolf can call for help or vice versa. With each new wolf you become, more techniques will be available, and new areas will be opened. Finally, as you become an Alpha, two new segments of the game will be opened: mating and the final battle. Mating is pretty self-explanatory, and eventually, through mating, many new wolves are ready for the last attack of the game. The final battle is against a clan of 7 wolves, and they must be defeated. Once you defeat them, you start over as the Omega, but as the children of the mating process that happened beforehand. (PS there will be 4 females) The goal of the game is to last 10 generations.

Lists of Wolf Rankings

1 Alpha (A)
2 Beta (B)
3 Delta (Greek D)
4 Epsilon (E)
5 Phi (Greek F)
6 Gamma (Greek G)
7 Theta (Greek H)
8 Iota (I)
9 Kappa (K)
10 Lambda (Greek L)
11 Mu (M)
12 Nu (V)
13 Omicron (O)
14 Pi (Greek P)
15 Ro (P)
16 Sigma (Greek S)
17 Tau (T)
18 Upsilon (U)
19 Omega (Greek Long O)

Note: Lower Ranks will not be cared for as much, and will eat at later times at the kill.

Screen

Top Left: Health Bar (red), Hunger Bar (blue), Energy Bar (green), Thirst Bar (yellow), Alpha Bar (shows how the Alpha thinks of you)

Top Right: Rank Symbol, Pack Members (A/D, A=Alive, D=Just Dead)

Bottom Left: Mode (Howl, Normal, Fight), Identification

Commands:

^ = Move Foward
V = Move Backward
> = Turn Right
< = Turn Left
Hold SHIFT = Howl Mode
     A = Gather Howl
     S = Gather Underlings Howl
     D = Help Howl
     F = Position Howl
A = Bite
S = Slash
D = Pre-programmed Action
F = Action
Hold CTRL = Extra Commands
     A = Eat
     S = Drink
     D = Examine (Gives identification)
     F = Stop Fight
T = Submission
R = Agression
E = Escape