[presentation and name] We will make you an offer you can’t refuse: become the godfather. Famiglia is a Geopositioned Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game. Steal, extortion, traffic of drugs, prostitution, “legal business” in your city on your Smartphone. The elements in the game are: The world -> GoogleMaps map (geopositioned) The pieces -> citizens and police controlled by the system and the gangsters controlled by the users The player can do several actions, over the POIs/business or over the pieces: steal, stortion, traffic of drugs.
1) hi! i'm Fredo Mindundini. I'm going to be the new godfather on [Barrio] 2) MAP: 3) This is my [guarida]. my safe place. here, i can rest, watch TV and prepare my next "works" 4) MAP: I have a 'protection' business, you know, there is a lot of insecurity on this neighbourhood.. 5) interesting. There is a new indian store near my [guarida]... 6) MAP: well... i'll go to introduce myself; I'm a polite neighbor…bwa-haha-ha.ha! 7) hello, BELOVED immigrant! do you know that there are a lot of bad people on this neighborhood and you need some protect... 8) MAP 9) HI…DO YOU HAVE A STRAWBERRY SQUISHEE? 10) MAP 11 ) well, i need some 'tools'; my loved beretta is sleeping in a box in the evidence room at the police station, so I have to buy a new weapon. 12) MAP
give me all the money, fuckin' idiot! MAP bwahahahaha!like stealing a candy from a baby!...uops! THE POLICE! MAP BOOOOOOOOOOUM MAP
The application is free. The money will come into through these ways: The player can buy corlys, the game coin, with euros. Ads supported: it is possible to include advertisements over the map and over the application. Sponsored POIs: two types Sponsored events. For example: the fnac may organize a thematic search over the city, with some clues and if you complete the search, you'll obtain some discounts, or special items Sponsored Offers: When the player buy some basic product: stick of bread, CD,…; in these POIs, he obtain a code that is exchangeable in the game by some powerup (information:the strength of a gangster, for example, or some special hability). We give the sponsors a differentiation with the competitors
We initially thought that the better age range was 25-34 years old, but according to the chart may be it is a good idea also to focus at the 18-24 age range. Mainly because in this range we have more videogame players.
Today, on spain, there are a huge difference between being a smartphone user and being an Internet smartphone user. But the number of connected smartphones is expected to grow really fast over 2011.
YO ELIMINARÍA EL DE BAD ACCEPTANCE Y METERÍA ALGO DE LO DE LA PRIVACIDAD…LA “GUARIDA” DEBERÍA SER PRIVADA (PARA EVITAR PROBLEMAS) We’ve re-evaluated our 3 top-problems: Mainly at the begining of the game the players won’t have other close players. It may be boring. It is not easy to find players. Some real POI owners can be upset by the kind of game Our solution : citizens, police and POIS with some interaction (you can earn experience and points buying some items on relevant POIS, 4square style) The citizens are managed by the system and all users have several citizens on his area; they can interact with them. The police is managed by the system and will try to avoid the crimes of the gangs And now the solutions to find players. They are the following 1. Advertising and press note in videogame sites. 2. By word of mouth. The players must know that they obtain advantages having neighbors (like in Farmville). Also, there are collaborative missions between several players. The solutions to avoid bad POIs acceptance are two: 1. Slightly change the POI names or use the generic names (“bank”,”cafeteria”…). As somebody suggested the past week. 2. Convince POI owners that the game is good for them. Make strategic alliances with small personal business (cafeterias, for example) near big work centers in order to make the workers go to get breakfast on their business to get some power-up on the game.
