Research and Brainstorming done for design of a Ninja Hattori game !
“ STORY
 SETTING: The game’s map consist of 6 different cities- Ido – the hometown of main characters!
Tokyo, Sahara Dessert , Hiroshima , Iga town and Koga town.
Plot:
31 december 2004
The whole Iga town is preparing for New Year celebration.Extreme winter is going on.Kenichi,Shinzo and shishimanu are playing PS2.As usual Hattori is practising his ninja techniques.Hattori receives a letter from Amara for a ninja duel in the  nearest riverside shore. When they are fighting with year. Hattori got hurted by a small dart thrown to him and he got fainted.Everyone rushes him to the nearest hospital.After checkups , doctors told them that hattori is suffering from a new unknown disease. His blood is rottening and his condition is critical. Everyone got frightened and they one by one go to the temple to pray for Hattori. The next day on 1 jan 2005, a ninja parcel comes on their address. It is from hattori’s father who has sent some ninja medicines for the treatment. Previous night while in the hospital hattori dreams of iga town and his academy where they are training for a ninja and his father is telling him that it is ninja’s priority to take care of his master and surroundings and everyone. After kenichi and others gave hattori medicines to eat , he sleep again and this time he again sees a dream but the opposite of first one.He dreams of his father telling everyone to take over everything In the world and make everyone your servant. Eventually Hattori recovers and is taken to home. Days pass by and same old chores are done. After daw days they receive cactochan. One day they get to know that there is started a new TV show based on Ninja’ life. They start to watch it and get to see the same incidents which happened to them in the previous days. Eventually shocked they see that the director of the Show is japan based indian filmmaker Jazzy Singh. Hattori teams up with Amaara to break into the Production house and steal the storage drive which contains future episodes. After stealing , they  found that it contains footage of only two episodes. In one episode , the destruction of koga town is shown while in the other destruction of Japan is shown indicating an attack like of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They get curious and eventually frightened.They go the directors house and found him dead. Amaara gets frightened about the protection of his mother and people. They both travel to Koga town and  Amaara makes Hattori disguised as a Koga Ninja. In Koga town they gets to know that there are two ancient sub Koga ninja groups who are enemy of each other. Amaara and Hattori both try to unite them again and passed. Some one unknown comes there and killed one of the group member and posed this as a tribal war which results in the war of all the groups and destruction of Koga town. Amaara and Hattori leave with Amaara’s mother. Back in school , Amaara take leave from the school after the interschool marathon in which amaara loses due to cheating. Kenichi takes Yumiko on a date and confesses his feelings to which Yumiko reciprocates. Hattori finds out about a secret box found on the mount Fiji through the footage. Sonam comes Ido to see hattori and teams up with them to solve the mystery. Kenichi , Yumiko , Shinzo , Amaara , Shishimanu , kiyo , sonam and hattori books tickets for Mount Fiji. There they found  a box with Ninja symbol and a Charged Nokia 3310 in it dated 19 feb 1995. Also they find a Saudi Arabian Ninja there named Yusuf Tazim. Together they fought some of the Rizen Mafia which is operating in the Mount Fiji from 1995.Yusuf introduced them  to Barzin Sushi which is the same thing given to Hattori while he was ill. Hattori eats it and becomes arrogant and starts using his powers to kill and defeat all near him. This shows that this medicine has psyco disordering power. They return home and take out the box which was from hattori’s father. They visit Iga town where they found that the town people are taken somewhere by an unknown identity. Hattori and others do some chores for the Iga town to recover the weapons and prepare for a war even without known who is the enemy. Hattori founds out a secret letter in which a name was written LOTHOR WATANABE. They drop kenichi ,shinzo  and others in ido and game them responsibility to report anything which is found to  be dangerous or mysterious. Sonam visits Hiroshima and founds about the radiation that take place by Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks has ended but she found something unusal in a slum area where two terrorists were found dead by radiation. She calls Jippou  and togechiro to help her in Hiroshima in investigation. Meanwhile, Hattori and Amaara arrives in Sahara dessert to visit Lothor watnabe. They found him in an abandoned place where he loves with lots of frogs. Lothor shows him the photo of him and Hattori’s father and tells him to follow him to found answers to their questions. Hattori also do some chores for him defeating and defeating the fear of frogs. Also Amaara sidelines himself from  Hattori and returns to Ido. Tokyo encounters  a blast in the shopping malls, a fire in school all of which results in several deaths.Lothor tells him about a book name “The Ninja’s world” which he make him read after eating Barzin, hattori realizes of his father stopping him to eat barzin but he eats thinking that it is helping him to overcome his fears of frogs , etc. He gets to know that when his father was a Teacher in Iga town , Lothor was his co- teacher. They found about a Barzin. A locket from the one of the barzin family . Jinzo(Hattori’s father) tries to put them in the secret chamber but Lothor has and evil eye on the Locket and after a duel , lothor with locket in hands dreamt of becoming the ruler of the new world which would be by killing all the human beings etc. Hattori finds it a great idea and returns to Ido to set the destructive plan in motion. He faked the death of Lothor by faking a funeral and dumping him in a grave under a ninja academy. He visits Tokyo and found about Dr Stephen Izriad and Rizad Irfin(terrorist). Dr Stephen has created a Nuclear bomb in which he has to fit Barzin’s locket which hattori fits in it and takes Stephen as hostage. Then he met Rizad Irfin who is a terrorist responsible for all the previous attacks on the Tokyo. They shif the bomb from Hiroshima to Tokyo through a bunker in  a Ninja self created ship.Rizad Irfin’s family was killed by a Koga Ninja so he also destroyed Koga town. After setting the bomb in the Tokyo near Tokyo tower. Hattori returns to ido where everyone is waiting for him. They try to make him understand and come on the write path but hattori doesn’t. this leads to  a ninja duel “Hattori vs Amaara,Shinzo,Sonam,Kiyo,Shishimanu,Togechiro and Jippou).they used frogs, shinzo’s cry and every attach to stop him but he doesn’t and also hurts sonam badly. After failing amaara and others team up for evacuating the city and they also go to nearby cities.This was a tough decision for everyone. A Good and powerful ninja who not fears of anyone is required for the activation of Barzin’ locket. So, the perfect person for activation was Jinzo Hattori(hattori’s father). Hattori kidnapped them and take him to rizad who tells hattori that attack is 2 days later because till that time we had to feed Barzin Sushi to Jinzo hattori. Hattori comes to the Ninja Academy where Lothor was dumped. After performing rituals. It was the night 30 dec 2005. Hattori slept and dreams of his father telling him about the fear of frogs.As a kid hattori was a very afraid of frogs and he also dreams some of the things they do together like making kaiko sir awake at morning,marathon race,shishimanu’s chocolate roll craze, fights with amaara which triggers his emotions and he awakes and thinks that he need to stop all this and he kills all the attendants of the academy and calls amaara and others for the final showdown. All of them arrive in Tokyo and fought with the Rizen mafiz and attendants of Lothor’s academy and they also kill Rizad Irfin .  They found out that the activation is started and will take 30 mins. They try all things to the diffuse the nuclear weapon but it doesn’t.Suddenly hattori realized that locket activates with a powerful and strong ninja who doesn’t fear anyone. The same could be appliead in deactivating it. They seek the book where they found out a page from the diary of Jinzo hattori. It was written there that Jinzo only fears of losing his family and children bu as Hattori grew up. Jinzo lost this fear. They tried to reawake this fear. Only 10 mins were left. They posed as if Hattori,Shinzo and their mom is being killed in front of their eyes. As a result, their fear reawkes and the locket deactivates initially diffusing the bomb and saving everyone. After that Jinzo and every ninja from iga town and Koga town destroys the weapon using their powers. Hattori goes to face lothor who is out of his fake grave and he wins the fight against lothor. Everything returns to normal. They all return to their old chores kenichi and yumiko dating while amaara still trying to break them. Kiyo spying on the mitsuba family. Koga and iga town recovers but sonam is upset from Hattori. Hattori tried to woo him but after fail attempts Hattori says that he would cut his wrist to which sonam agrees. In response Hattori uts with his mouth as a fun action , sonam smile nd they reconcile.  “
“RESEARCh & BRAINSTORMING POINTS FOR A GAME DESIGN
Ninja Hattori : the game
Genre: Action, Adventure
Gameplay Type : Single play with multiple characters,multiplayer
Game type: Story driven open world non – linear gameplay,multiplayer deathmatch
Target Audience : 12+
Art Style: 3D high poly cartoon with pre rendered animation !
MAIN PLAYABLE CHARACTERS:
NinjaHattori,Kenichi,Shinzo,Amaara,Sonam and togechirou,shishimanu,kiyo,cactochan and jippou’s powers can be used as prop sometimes.
NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTERS:
Yumiko,Kenichi’s Parents,Hattori’s Parents, Rizad Irfin, Yusuf Tazim , Balwinder Singh, Amaara’s Mom , Aiko Mam, Koike Mam,  Fish seller , grocery seller , Doc.Stephen izriad,Lothor watanabe, normal peds and businessmans , shopkeepers, Policemen,Thief etc.
GAMEPLAY:
: The Game’s narrative is told in the classic Ninja hattori cartoon style.
: the game is nonlinear so player can freely roam the map without doing missions.
: the game’s world map will extended as far as story progresses
: the game features character swap like of GTA V and each character selected will be at that place where he/she has to be at that time. For ex like it 10:30 am in game’s and kenichi has gone to school than if character selected will be kenichi than kenichi will be found sitting in the class,etc.
: weapons can be self created by Characters by use of collected items or purchased items. For creating weapon hattori has Ninja books and scrolls by the use of which he and others can create weapons. Several other weapons can also be available throughout the game like Guns,rocket launchers etc.
: at starting Hattori and shinzo has limited Ninja techniques like Bomb hiding, Star throw, ninja run , etc. all others techniques can be acquired by learning and practicing them using scrolls which can be acquired as story progresses or by downloadable content.Techniques can be practiced in various practisng points available throughout the game’s  world map. The largest ones are in Ega town and Indian Ninja hangout place.
: the traversal system is both stealth and simple. Hattori,shino,amaara,sonam can use their techiniques to travel.Although there are various ways like use of cars, cycle and other big transport system like trains, aeroplanes etc.
: the game features an “ organic growth system “ which means as the time passes the character will grow organically like in real life – their height will increase, voice tone will get sharper,their age differ ,etc.
: for triggering a mission the character has to travel to the certain NPC and the mission will trigger like the classic intro of Ninja Hattori’s Anime episodes.
: Their a variety of activites and hangout places available throughout the world map like skydiving ,scubadiving , school marathon races, karate classes , music concerts , film theaters ,etc which can be visited with friend,etc.
: the game features a tourism system in which characters can encounter tour by planning it and visit the places like Mount Kirochio, hawaai,etc.
: PROPS: smartphone,laptops,Tv,Music recorders and players , Guitars,Violins , Playstation 2etc.
: a cutscene can be encountered in two ways: playable cutscene, non-playable cutscene. For ex – its 2:30 pm in the clock  and hattori is late for triggering a cutscene at kenichi’s house and when he reaches there the cutscene stars, at the same time kenichi reaches home so he will also be the part of the cutscene.Ig hattori would have reached home earlier when kenichi would be in school .than he would not be a part of the cutscene. But,there are excptions like some characters which are necessary a part of that sequence. Another example is that at the same cutscene , kiyo is listening and spying from behind , so if hattori is not a necessary character in that scene  , he can come out form the place. Than the cutscene will be played in a window on one corner of the screen and hattori finds out about kiyo in the windows, he can caught him,etc. if kiyo escapes , kiyo will only got half information from there,etc
: the fights between ninjas will occur in the traditional ninja hattori anime style also there is a small time game where certain onscreen buttons will have a special attack.
: storytelling style would be of the classic NinjaHattori anime and GTA games mixed.
:PLACES OF INTEREST
: while on a tour characters can do several activities like barbeque, photoshoots etc
: while watching a movie in  a TV theater , if the movie is emotional , Shinzo will start crying hardly which would disturb the whole audience and make them fainted
: characters can visit temple for prayers. Each time they pray, the are rewarded with some valuable thing like stamina,health etc. although in some sequences visiting temple is mandatory. For ex- in one sequence when hattori is hospitalised due to critical health. Other characters have to visit temple few times according to the target and pray for Hattori which makes him healty again and recovers him,etc
: there are various foodshops, clothes shop and hospitals and police stations and schools  on the world map where characters can visit to buy clothes, foods and get medicine or do some other chores for the police department , etc.
:INTERACTION
 : the characters can interact with other characters according to their choice- they are providing 2 or 3 different questions and answers which would affect the story.
: the game features and autosave option. If the player quits the game after autosaving, the next time they open the game , the character would be some tired and dizzy and the game time was the same as before the quiting.
: if the player goes to the safehouse and after saving they quit the game. The next time they open the game the character would be active ,etc
: the safehouse can be created by characters as the rate of the safehouses wpuld be much higher than the characters have in game money.
: things can be bought using in game money.
: all the characters would have social media accounts on INSTAGAME(adaptation of INSTAGRAM) which they can use for posting photos etc. “
This is a example Game Design Research & Brainstorming i’d done for a Ninja Hattori Game .
