This application will have a simple cartoon story in the beginning and then a simple game. If you have an idea that may make the game even simpler and cheaper to make, I am open to hear it. One option is to lower the number of eggs in the game to 3 (you will understand after reading below).
Cartoon Story
We have 5 images that we want to have slowly panned over each (move from one side of the image to the other over a 5-6 second span); similar to how Angry Birds does it. We will have a sound clip with each image. We will provide both the sound clips and images. Each image will be shown for 5-6 seconds and automatically move to the next image. When it gets to the final image, there will be a play now button.
Gameplay
The objective of this game is to get the highest score simply by surviving for the longest time.
There will be 5 eggs lined up next to each other. The pig (a static cartoon image we provide) will sit on-top of one of the eggs. The game is to keep the eggs warm. The player will use left and right arrows to move the pig across the eggs. If the pig doesn’t sit on an egg in specified amount of time (likely 6 seconds), they eggs disappear. If an egg disappears, it is gone for good.
Every few seconds a bird (a static image we provide) should fly in and hit the pig from the left or right (randomly picked). When the bird hits the pig, the pig will be bumped over one egg (and the bird will disappear or fall off the screen after hitting the pig). If a bird flies in from the left, the pig will be bumped one egg to the right. If the pig was on the right most egg that is currently not disappeared, the pig will fall off the eggs and loses.
This game is not level based and simply racks up a high score (on game center) until pig gets knocked off the eggs.
The Point System
The player will receive 1 point for every egg that exists for ever second. So when there are 5 eggs, its 5 points for every second, at 4 eggs they receive 4 points every second.
Gameplay Example
The pig starts off sitting on top of the middle of the 5 eggs that are all red. As the game goes on, the left most egg fades to blue and disappears. Now there are 4 eggs. As the player moves the pig back and forth to keep the eggs warm. As the player moves to the left most egg of the 4, a bird flies in from the right and knocks the pig off the left most egg. The pig falls off the eggs and loses. He lasted for 15 seconds with 5 eggs (15x5) and 20 seconds with 4 eggs (4x20). That is the high scores.
We have the graphics.
We own the rights to all the code
Money is put in escrow at start but released upon Apple’s approval of the app.
I m an independent developer working on iOS apps from more than 1 year.
In the past i have a 5 year experience in Java and Dot Net.
I have done major work in Iphone game development. And a couple of business apps. Some apps are already on the app store and a couple are under development.