Cube Echo Game Design Document

Game Name: Cube Echo

—“Every choice is a dance with the world.”

Game Type:

(1) 3D/3C/First-Person/Level-Based Gameplay/Single-Player/Turn-Based

(2) Audiovisual Game/Interactive Experience/Puzzle Game

Game Description: 

    Cube Echo is a 3D audiovisual game where players interact with the world of Rubik's Cubes. Players will travel through virtual worlds within various Rubik's Cubes from a first-person perspective, interacting and dancing with the world by moving objects and placing markers, changing the world, and creating a unique symphony together. Based on Tic-Tac-Toe, this 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube version features an infinitely looping and constantly changing Rubik's Cube map with terrain; connecting three markers in a row completes the level. 

Table of Contents:

1. Theme Interpretation: Dancing with the World

1.1 Mind Map

1.2 Brainstorming

1.3 Summary

2. Core Gameplay Rules: An audiovisual game based on 3x3x3 Tic-Tac-Toe

2.1 Gameplay Introduction

2.2 Game Introduction/Rules

2.3 In-Game Flow - Single Player

2.4 General Out-of-Game Flow

3. Design Concept: Imagine First, Then Concrete

Design Concept & Overview

4. Map Design

4.1 Map Design Concept

4.2 Map Explanation

4.2.1 Overview of Complete Map Mechanisms

4.2.2 Six-Sided Mechanism of the Central Grid

4.2.3 Random Terrain - Three Screws (Cuboid + Window) and One Opposite Window Wall

4.2.4 Game Flow - Easier to Understand Map Mechanisms with Two Players - Single Player Method Included

4.2.5 Example Demonstration of Random Map (Step 6 of Game Flow)

5. Music Design

5.1 Design Concept

5.2 Explanation of Original In-Game Music Design

5.2.1 In-game Music Logic

5.3 Out-of-game BGM - Generated by Suno AI

5.4 Out-of-game Sound Effects

6. Art Design

6.1 Design Concept

6.1.1 Determining the Style, Generating Concept Art Using Midjourney

6.1.2 AIGC Level Icons

6.1.3 AIGC Backgrounds

6.1.4 Photoshop Modification and Design

6.2 Design Explanation

7. References: Suno, MJ, ChatGPT, External References, Original Content

7.1 Music and Sound Effects

7.2 Visual 2D/3D

7.3 Design Document Explanation and Resource References