New Term - New Brief.

The Island.
For this brief I have to design computer game. Main theme is Island. After meditation on this problem I have decided to base conception of the game on the really existing Island. So it has to be an island that has something interesting on it or has a history that would give me material for a story of my game. Three islands came to my mind: “New Land” - place where Russian scientists in 1950s tested their hydrogen bomb “Ivan”, Greenland - that could melt because of the global warming, if it happens it would change Golf Stream and Europe would turn to the Ice Age and the third one is Easter Island - that has weird head sculptures called Maoi.

Easter Island attracted me a lot because of the riddle it has. Nobody knows exactly why these “Maoi” heads were built. There are 997 Moai on the island. All of them are solid and cut of one of pressed volcano ash and stones. Sizes and weights are different of each head. Sometimes weight reaches up to 20 tons and height up to 6 metres. The biggest Moai has weight of 270 tons and height of 20 metres. Also some incomplete head were found on the island. There are only suggestions how these sculptures were moved from the places they were built. There are a legend that Maoi walked by themselves. Another version that these sculptures were made and moved by Atlantes.


I think that Easter Island is great place to base the game on. Further I will try to explain the story of the game.
Conception of the game is puzzle based one. Basically player starts with the empty island with no sculptures on it. The only things he has is source of the stone for the building Maoi and clearly marked places where Maoi should be located. When sculpture is ready he has to find a right place for it, shape and size should match with the shape and size of the head, just like puzzle. When all the sculptures cut of and placed correctly it completes the system of the enigmatical constructions (Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge,) all around the world. This system activates Earth’s energy and something great happens.
During further lectures I will build up a general view of the game.
Some interesting links I have found about the Easter Island

• http://www.3dphoto.net/world/latin_america/chile/easter/easter.html
• http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=-27.076399&ln=-109.345722&z=4&k=2&a=1
• http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Isld_Pge.html

Some interesting info about the way they were moved.
• http://mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Island/html/contro2.html
• http://www.tegakinet.jp/moai.htm
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/move/past.html