Value Curve Scores
Immediate Visual Readability
The game's core objective, player state, and immediate dangers are instantly understandable through visual cues alone, without text or tutorials.
Primary: 5
Secondary: 3
Tertiary: 2
New: 5
Preserve · Dominant: Primary · Persona Fit
Rationale: We had several issues in past games that the persona doesn't understand the game. They can control their character and give commands but they have a hard time understading what to do and why. E.g. Egg.io players can move, shoot but they don't understand the area coverage and the winning criteria.
Self-Generated Obstacle & Difficulty
Player success directly and visibly creates the primary obstacle and increases the challenge within the current run, making each decision more dangerous.
Primary: 4
Secondary: 0
Tertiary: 2
New: 4
Preserve · Dominant: Primary · Retention
Rationale: Conflict is very clear and inevitable, also doesn't create any sense of injustice or frustration when they lose (i lost because i am good).
Frequent Run-Based Upgrades
Players receive frequent, impactful upgrade choices during a run that significantly alter gameplay and strategy for that specific session.
Primary: 2
Secondary: 4
Tertiary: 3
New: 4
Raise · Dominant: Secondary · Persona Fit
Rationale: The frequent sentiment of progression is important and this makes it frequent and very visible. This will be created using the simple Upgrades sytem we already have in Unity projects - almost no coding.
Visually Satisfying Collection & Progression Feedback
Collecting items and progressing through gates is accompanied by immediate, energetic, and visually spectacular feedback (e.g., bright effects, beat-synced explosions).
Primary: 1
Secondary: 3
Tertiary: 4
New: 3
Raise · Dominant: Tertiary · Persona Fit
Rationale: The game builds on top of snake mechanics but with visuals of pac-man 256 that is more modern, unique and tailored to a younger audience. The visuals are already set and have several good assets already present on the vault.
Short, Self-Contained Room Challenges
Gameplay is structured into distinct, quickly completable rooms or segments, each presenting a clear, immediate objective.
Primary: 3
Secondary: 4
Tertiary: 2
New: 4
Raise · Dominant: Secondary · Persona Fit
Rationale: easy to understand challenges is essential for the persona. we had several issues with readability of the context in other games. Also, it is simple enought to add in the levels without complicating the design.
Clear Short-Term Goals & Milestones
The game constantly presents players with easily identifiable, achievable short-term objectives (e.g., 'open the next gate,' 'clear one more room').
Primary: 2
Secondary: 3
Tertiary: 2
New: 4
Raise · Dominant: Primary · Retention
Rationale: Bite-sized goals gives that "just one more" sense because it feels like it can be done in a few seconds / minutes. Longer goals make the player pause when he knows it will take too long. This system is already present in the old Hi Fi Snake from the vault