Bang Bang Shoot Shoot is a game that introduces the concept of rhythm into first person shooters, resulting in beautiful, stylised fights. While traditional shooters revolve primarily around space, all game elements in Bang Bang Shoot Shoot revolve around the notion time and in particular rhythm, resulting in an overarching musical-like experience.
OBJECTIVE
Redesign first person shooters, replacing space with time.
MOVIVATION
Rhythm games were one of the main innovations in video gaming. Unfortunately, all games based on the rhythm game concept are similar in many ways. In movies, in contrast, the concept of rhythm appears not only in the form of dance movies, such as romantic Bollywood-style movies but also in movies catering very different emotions to a very different audience, for example, Kung-fu movies. They produce the "music" by the actors performing rhythmically. Highly choreographed. Very esthetic to watch. These movies leverage rhythm not only to make it easier to follow the action as actions become more predictable, but also to amplify the sensation/make more immersive as players synchronize themselves with the music they can anticipate hits, strengthening their sense of it being the viewers who perform the blow.
IMPLEMENTATION
1. WEAPONS ON THE BEAT
- Instant hit weapons -> stay the same
- Delay guns -> create projectiles that explode after a fixed time on the beat
- Forwarding guns -> team weapon. Every player fires on the beat and the target player accumulates all previous damage and when he fires off the beat, all the accumulated damage is given to him.
- Guns with slow-traveling projectiles -> pulse gun. Damage is given only when the projectile is big, i.e., on the beat.
- Continuously shooting weapons -> player holds down fire and the gun automatically fires on the rhythm.
2. MOVING ON THE BEAT
- Armor ++ -> jumping on the beat
- Power-up sequence -> players take the same movement on some consecutive beats to gain power-up
- Synchronized jump -> every player lands on the ground on the multiple of the beat.
- Synchronized jump in the real game situation.
3. ARPEGGIO: WEAPONS ON THE MEASURE
- instrument weapons play at different beats.
CONCLUSION
Bang Bang Shoot Shoot is a new system of game mechanics that revolve around rhythm and time. The main contribution is a new esthetic that results from combining rhythm and shooting in a way corresponding to the aforementioned esthetics of highly stylized kung-fu movies.