Mt. Dew Game Brainstorming

Agenda: Help people to learn the different flavors of Mountain Dew
Flavors--some are cars, some are power-ups (balance, every good power-up needs a counter)

• Livewire-grapple post (speed must be enough, correct timing), grapple post
• Original-slick looking car, cart, modern day super-car
• Lode Red-military vehicle
• White out - snow covers most of screen, flashbang
• Voltage-kill player’s engine, slows them down
• Throw back--50’s style car, banana or oil slick type item
• Baja-off-road environment, off-road vehicle
• Thin Ice Freeze - power-up that allows player to take a water short cut, glide over bumpy areas
• Cherry fusion-cherry bomb
• Distortion - reverses finish line, or swap steering direction (less confusing vote)
• Typhoon-glides, spinouts, tornado launch (flips enemy players around)
• Flare-aimed missile
• Crave-homing missile, steal someone else’s item
• Blue shock freeze - shield
• Supernova - ultimate power-up (blue-shell), bullet, disappear and reappear in first place, certain distance jump, bright out other screens, teleporter
• Diet - makes player lighter, squishes player and allows player to get through thin alley way (guaranteed, or conditional)
• Blue shock (expendable power-up), ball of energy on track, random item
• Ability to collect multiple items and choose from them
• Chain items
• Have max number of items that can be held at the same time.
• Buttons dedicated to power-ups

• Battle Racing
• 3D
• Pick-ups/Power-ups
• Environment
• Caffeine boost (with Mountain Dew logo on track). Temporarily speeds up car
• Random
• Probabilities of getting good items increases when player is far behind
• Drafting
• Cartoon or realistic art
• Weapon shapes:
• Soda bottle
• Bottle caps
• lightning bolts
• fire balls colored with drink
• Some flavor is a fuel. You have to collect enough fuel to make it to a checkpoint, possibly lowers speed, stop for 2 seconds, etc.
• Driver - modeled person, or car is character. More people vote for car is character
• Car’s that correspond to power-ups
• Unlock power-ups as you get better
• Starter cars, unlock better cars
• Everyone starts with a defense item
• Persistent state-Save best times on laps, achievements to unlock new cars, winning races unlocks new cars, unlock power-ups
• Server/LAN/website based
• Level-design
• multi-leveled
• flat
• specific levels for specific flavors
• generic mountain dew levels
• Cinematic moments
• A single player mode
• Death match?
• Build a track builder/level builder
• Track pieces
• environmental items, obstacles
• Twisted metal art style
• Textures for car damage
• 4 cars to start with, pick 3-4 flavors for levels, power-ups
• Start with power-up specific to level
• Different cars have different stats
• Code red is really fast, but slow acceleration
• Original has all meters level
• Poor handling, better top speed
• HUD
• Mini-map to show progress
• speedometer
• Effects
• Dust, smoke, water
• Lighting effects
• HDR
• shadows
• water reflection
• Music
• Rock, electric guitar music
• Exaggerated sound effects
• Name of Game
• Mountain Dew Derby
• Level Editor