Game Concept Document

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🎮 Dengue Defender

1. Concept Summary

Dengue Defender is an educational VR game designed to raise awareness about dengue fever among students. By immersing players in both the perspective of a mosquito and a human, the game teaches biology, prevention strategies, and personal protection in an engaging, interactive way.

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2. Target Audience

• Students aged 14–18 (High school)
• Teachers and health educators seeking interactive tools for classrooms.

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3. Game Objectives

1. Learn – Experience mosquito life cycle and human prevention strategies.
2. Act – Perform tasks (feeding, laying eggs, cleaning environments, protecting yourself).
3. Reflect – Receive feedback, quizzes, and scores to reinforce learning.
4. Collaborate – Work with team members to complete environmental cleanup missions together and share prevention strategies.
5. Compete – Challenge another team in head-to-head missions to see who can eliminate breeding sites faster or protect their community more effectively.

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4. Game Modules

Module 1: Mosquito Life Cycle – “Born to Bite”

Gameplay:

• Role: Player is a mosquito.
• Learn how mosquitoes hatch, grow, feed, and reproduce.
• Experience challenges like predators (fish, dragonflies) and environmental hazards.

Game Elements:

• Educational Focus: Biology of mosquitoes, connection between blood meals and reproduction.
• Goals: Survive and complete life cycle.
• Rules: Must feed to reproduce; avoid predators.
• Challenges: Swatting hands, repellents, predators.

Module 2: Environmental Prevention – “Human vs. Habitat”

Gameplay:

• Role: Player is a human.
• Explore a neighborhood and eliminate breeding sites (stagnant water, messy gardens).
• Timed challenges to stop eggs from hatching.

Game Elements:

• Educational Focus: Environmental hygiene, community responsibility, practical prevention.
• Goals: Eliminate breeding grounds before eggs hatch.
• Rules: Eggs hatch after timer runs out.
• Challenges: Hidden sites, limited time and Weather Events.

Module 3: Personal Protection – “Defend Yourself”

Gameplay:

• Role: Player is a human protecting themselves.
• Use repellents, nets, and clothing to avoid bites.
• Mini-games reinforce safe behaviors.

Game Elements:

• Educational Focus: Personal safety, protective measures, behavior awareness.
• Goals: Protect yourself and others, recognize dengue.
• Rules: If protection is incomplete, mosquitoes bite.
• Challenges: Waves of mosquitoes, NPCs needing help.
• Rewards: Health Hero Badge, team score.
• Storytelling: Dengue outbreak scenario.

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5. Key Features

• Role Switching: Seamless transition between mosquito and human perspectives
• Interactive VR Controls: Use hand gestures to apply repellent, clean water, fix pipes, etc.
• Environmental Simulation: Low poly homes, schools, gardens with dynamic mosquito behavior
• Weather Simulation**:** Dynamic weather conditions (rain, dry, cold, humid, hot, extreme heat) that affect mosquito activity and breeding patterns in real-time
• Quest System: Progressive missions guide players through each module with clear objectives, milestones, and narrative-driven challenges that unlock new content and rewards
• Scoring System: Points for correct actions, fast responses, and teamwork.

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6. Game Art Style

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Project Environmental Context: "Urbanized Village"

Visual Signature: A mix of modern concrete/brick homes and two-story Lao-fusion architecture (very few traditional wooden stilt houses). Properties are enclosed by high concrete walls or metal gates, situated along a mix of paved and unpaved narrow roads, featuring a mix of potted plants, natural vegetation, and urban waste (drainage sewers, open gutters, discarded plastic).

Visual Style

Character Design

Environmental Style

UI and Feedback Style

Audio / Sound Effects

7. Level Design

• UI main scene’s objects:
  • play option
  • setting option
  • about
  • etc
• module 1 scene’s objects:
  • m1 tutorial
  • mosquito player
  • predators
  • weather
  • breeding places
  • swarm
  • score
• module 2 scene’s objects:
  • m2 tutorial
  • human player
  • mosquitoes
  • hazard
  • timer
• module 3 scene:
  • m3 tutorial
  • player
  • NPC
  • mosquitoes
  • tools
  • etc..

[oddsups]

So for module three let’s add an outbreak feature. Mosquitos bite sick npcs and can transmit the virus to other npcs. The player has to make sure that healthy npcs are not bitten. Give them something to stay protected. And sick should go to hospital or stay inside the house under mosquito net if they are little bit sick.

[oddsups]

Goal is to keep sick people low. And avoid outbreaks. There should be a feeling that you have to be quick in decision making to stop outbreak.