1. 10 page design document for Shanty Town
Design by Tom Hughes
For Xbox live arcade, PSN, WiiWare and Steam
Rating 18+
Ship Date TBD

2. Game Story:
Rico is the second hand man for the drug baron O Turbrao. You
command the favela taking out rival gangs and using drugs to rule the
favela. But a change of heart leads you to create your own secret army
and lead your men to defeat O Turbrao using the equipment that you
can buy by selling drugs and robbing in the city or any passing citizen
who is not from the area. You buy the weapons using the money you
have claimed and getting ay of the locals to join your side to start to
create an army to start claiming land to which you lead the final
assault to defeat O Turbrao and his army to rule the Favela or will O
Turbrao have an informant that has watching your every move? Will
he succeed or will Rico planned his own surprise?

3. Game Play:
In Shanty Town the player is Rico the second hand man to the most
violent drug baron who has ever lived in the Favela O Turbrao. Rico
starts to feel O Turbrao is starting to become to violent and secretly
you have started a small business and a few men are willing to help in
the cause the task is to gain money to buy for weapons and also
convince the locals to join your side to get rid of O Turbrao and make
the favela a safe environment for the people. The game play will be
like Grand Theft Auto and stronghold combined. The game play will
be up to the player to choose if they want to complete tasks or stay
behind and build up your army. But some missions can be decoys for
O Turbrao to attack your base and steal money and weapons while
you’re away so certain missions do have repercussions. Other
missions could be to hard for the player and can be killed in the
process and means that they do have to restart from the last
successful mission. Once the missions are completed in which you
have the choice of 30 to complete you can then take on the O Turbrao
using the army and yourself you command your army to victory but if
fail the favela will remain under rule and the game will have restart
the boss level again from the start.

4. Game flow
The first set of missions will be very easy for the player as at most
their will only be a couple of the enemies their at the first set of
missions as the game along more enemies will be added and also the
missions will be more difficult for the player also if you die in the
mission you will not be able to complete the mission again as your
chance of the mission as ended. The player can attack the boss at any
given time but the smaller the army the less chance you will defeat O
Turbrao the earliest you could defeat him would be after you have
completed at least ¾ of the missions to earn enough reputation to
recruit members and also have enough money to buy weapons for the
army. As the game progresses you gain more power, which means
you, can start to use the people to get the money and weapons and
also to gain more members as the game goes along you have more
power and the weapons become more powerful to the final level the
you have be able to buy armour for yourself and some of your more
skilled shooters.

5. Character(s) and Control
Player Character:
Rico: you start of a pre-set character but once you gain money you
can change your style of clothing from rags to designer clothing and
having a smarter hair cut form an afro as well as Clothing you can use
the money you gain to buy better weapons and Armour for you and
your army to build the strength of the army is important for the final
battle when you need to use wit and skill to defeat the enemy.
With the equipment you can buy there are disadvantages such and
some guns are heavier than other so this can slow you down or the
army down if they are carrying a heavy gun but the gun is more
powerful and can shot through thin walls. Where as a light gun means
you can run quickly and aim faster but the range and power are much
more decreased. With grenades they have effect on the person
movement or weight but you are only limited to 2 unless you buy the
utility belt which then you can equip up to 7.
The player controls every single action in their army as well as how
they go about completing the mission every single action is caused by
the player and they must navigate their way to victory.

6. Main gameplay concepts and platform specific features
The player engages in a world of where you have to build up your
resources and then attack this is not a straight forward shot them-up
style game it requires thinking and planning in how you will create
your empire and how you will use the men you have to form a style of
attack that will be most effective
The sequence of the play is broken into different parts that you have
to complete but all in one map so the game doesn’t suddenly jump
from one place to another the missions are all based in one area. The
game itself is much like a strategy game in which you have to gain
control of the whole area much like other games e.g. (Stronghold) and
also a bit like Grand Theft Auto the game will other a much different
type of strategy game like never before it offers much more scenarios
in which if you complete or fail different outcomes will happen to you
and the enemy and can alter the game itself you cannot go back to the
mission again once you have done it or failed it unless you do the
game again some missions are harder than others so it understanding
what missions to do that will mean you either progress quicker or let
the enemy be able to overrun you.
The game will offer more realistic camera shots so you can see the
progress of the enemy to see how they are progressing and using this
to build up an army to able to defeat O turbrao