Ghezwa el saraya

It’s between truth n’ evil

Part one: the islam’s rise and first conqueroring

Game concept
This is a semi-education war game, based on the siroh or islam’s history. Like dynasti
warrior game that stand on the legend of three kingdom, this game has only bit of
differences, but bassically, both are same, so this is like a copy of dynasti warrior but it
has more specification n’ difference in graphics.

Game genre
This is an third person RPG action game, with you play only one character in a war and
player have a position as player r character’s position told in history. So player have no
right to change the position here. Coz this game really match with the history and
destinated for educate people about islam’s jihad history and it’s influence to human
being till now.

Target audience
Everyone can play this game. but this game should be played only at PC and PS3

Game flow summary

In this game, the player will play as one of the shahabah, he will play in the battle that
happened in islam first age, from Rasulullah’s age into the last of the khulafa’ur rasyidin.
If the player win the battle, the game should continue, but if he lose, he will repeat until
he win. The player will not finished without winning every battle, and the next battle will
not available except player win the battle. Every player win the battle, the character will
get an experience and new item or new weapon. And player may unlock new character.
The game end when player has finished the last war in this game

Look and feel

In this game as the another third person view game, the person played was seen on his
back, and the opponent around him. Also, the character played will not be appeared
clearly, coz it is forbidden as in the hadits, it’s little sillouetted, and they will not facing
back so the face couldn’t seen, the camera will automatically detect his movement and
always stay at character’s back.
This game using 3D graphics, but no face cleared here, because it’s forbidden to show
shahabat’s face.

Game mechanics
Gameplay
First, player choose the game mode, there are three game mode in this game, the story
mode, battle mode, and free mode. In the story mode, the player will play as one
character from first until the last battle based on the history. The player can pass the
battle and play the next battle only by winning the battle. Every character in this person
has their own story and assignment in every battle. According to the history too.
Battle mode is the training mode. In this mode, player’s free to create group and team,
and put the character into the position player want. He also able to choose the
environment, formation, and the season.
In the free mode, player’s free to choose the war he wanna play within. And also player
r character. Every change the character get in this battle, will also saved and influence
player r character in story mode. If the player play the free mode and reach level five, he
also will play as level five in story mode.
After choose the mode, player should choose the character, weapon, and the vehicle,
after that, player could begin the battle. Player will win if he kill the opponent’s general
or take all enemy’s flag, coz, if all flags are taken, the general will directly withdrawal.

Mechanics
1.assignment/job
This game based on the job, every character has their own job and role as told in the
history, for example, not in every battle Umar bin Khattab get the general position, or
another, if player choose a archer character in the battle of uhud, player will stay firstly
at the mountain as the archer. Finishing the job not mean the war end, but player still
need to kill the general, or kill the flag holder. But this assignment or job need to be
finished successfully, coz the assignment player do is one of the battle winning syarat.

2.battle
The main idea of this game is multiple battle, one can fight more than one opponent at
same time, u only need to attack the enemy and the life meter will decrease as the
attack take a point, the attack can be variation, as player r level. If player r level is high,
player r attack will be more variated. player also can defense with the shield or ducking,
or block with player r weapon, the attack decrease player r life meter if it’s hit player
directly. Blocking will give no damage to player. player shall win the battle if player kill
the general, or take the flag over. Or the enemy withdraw. If the character’s killed, the
game will over and player must restart the battle.

3.skills
In this game, attack variation based on skill character has, that based on level. Every
character has their own skill in using their weapon, but, the skill they have will only used
in the weapon that suit to ‘em, if the character is swordman, they will not very good in
using spear. And the spearman will not very good in using sword, but there’re
characters that have same great ability in using 2 weapons.

4.,??????? heal them, and help them.VehiclesAnimal vehicles can react with calling.
vehicles
There’re three type of vehicles in this war game, as a traditional culture of arabian, the
three is horse, camel, and the boat in the water war. When war has started, all of the
vehicles player get will be available for player, but every character will soon own their
personal vehicle. And character can call them in the war.

5.acters that have same great ability in using 2 weapons. same great ability in using 2
weapons.ity in using 2 weapons.weapon
Some traditional weapon, such as sword, spear, bow, knife, rod, and so on, there’s also
shield and armor to increase defense. Every character has their own weapon that
named, as if the prophet has 9 swords, and another shahabat do. And there’s also the
huge weapon such as catapult, or dababah, and so on, these weapon operated by
troopers.

6.item
There’s some item to use, to increase the life meter, to get more defense or power, or
rise up the experience to step to the next level, and so on, the enemy will drop the item
or player will get it in the things around the battle battlefield.

7.opponents
Divided into two parts, the general, and troops, The opponents have same
specialization with the characters, with the level higher. And the weapon and vehicles
also same. to win the battle, player should kill the general. And the battle will over right
that.

8.battlefield
The battlefield designed to be same with the contour of the historical battlefield. player
can see the whole battlefield in map. player r movement also will monitored in the mini
map in the side of the screen, so player will not loose player r enemy. Coz the war was
happened in Arabian, so lot of battlefields are desert, with some mountains and oasis,
and also little of trees, player can explore whole of the battlefield, but the battlefield
have limit and border, so player can’t go away from the war.

9.stuff
Life meter
Show player r character’s HP, if it vanished, player r character will die

Skill meter
Show player r oportunity in using skill (musou in dynasti warrior game). player can act
player r powerful skill if player r skill meter is full

Mini map
Show player r position in the battle, that will guide player to find player r enemy. And
player r mates. Every player move, the pointer also will move as player r moving. And
player r enemy too.

Time limit
Show player the limit of player r powerful stamina. The time end, player r stamina will
start decrease.

Stamina meter
Show player r stamina, this stamina will decrease when player are fight in long periode.
If the stamina all gone, player player r HP will start decrease. When stamina decrease,
character will react and shown tired. And when stamina is very less, he will can’t move
so much, and the attack will get weaker, and also the defense, to rise the stamina,
character need a rest or use the item.

Movement
Player can move the character as the human did, walk forward, backward, turn right and
left, character, of course, can attack the enemy using his weapon and defense too,
characters also able to do special move like jump, roll, duck, etc. Character have no
automatic reflect, so the player must very aware with the enemies attack. Enemy can
move just as the character. But their movement not under player’s control. They move
their selves.
Vehicles in this game only a carrier, so it only able to run and jump, whenever player
need player vehicle, player can simply call them. If the vehicle stand nearby character,
press jump to ride it. Character can not only ride their vehicle, but also other’s. So the
vehicle can be exchange between player and the mates or even with the opponent’s
vehicle.
Character attack in the variation moving, swinging and stabbing for sword, spear and
knife, and throw for bow and rod. The variation can increase every level up. When the
variation and combination attack has increased so much, player can simply choose many
of the move will he use in the battle.

Action
Character can attack the enemy with many attack, ordinary attack, strong attack, or skill
attack. The skill attack is designed to attack many opponents so player can simply attack
lot of enemy in same time using this attack. Strong attack take more HP from the
opponent’s. But it need a bit of time to collect an energy. So the ordinary attack is usual
attack stand on combination, As explained before. Player can attack every enemy he
find. And kill them. But the enemies are not the statue, so they will react to the attack.
They can avoid the attack or block it. Whenever the attack blocked, he just have to
attack continue. Character can attack from many position, when he duck, when he jump,
when he’s riding horse, even when he swim.
When character’s HP low, player can rise it by using some or take item within the war.
Some item can rise your def and att, and another can rise your HP and skill meter. If you
take or use some item to rise your stamina, when your limit time not in the injury time,
it just add more time. Player can also use the item for his allies. If he find his allies
injuries or hurt, he can simply heal them with the item.
In this game, cos it is islam’s war, of course there’s takbir. You can press a button to do
it. When you do it, your status will rise. As told in the history that moslem army always
stay strong by dzikr. Status stand on stamina, skill, and time limit.
You can see whole battlefield by press menu button. In this, you can explore what have
you did and to where the enemies move. This very useful when the battlefield is so large
and it’s all dessert, when no difference between here and there. All are sands. When the
player confused he can simply press the menu button and choose the map. The map will
shown in 3D version, so player can rotate and zoom it to understand really the
battlefield and to where he must go.
When the enemy withdrawal, player can choose between kill the enemy or forgive
them. In this case, forgiving will give more experience than killing. But this option only
will appear if your character is one of the general in the war.

Story, Setting, and Character

Story n’ narrative
·background story
Islam as a religion has a very hard way in rising. At the beginning, lot of moslems being
tortured only because he take islam, human can be killed, only if he said that no true
god but Allah, this periode take a longest time in prophet Muhammad pbuh life. In this
period, moslems didn’t fight the kuffar, because Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala haven’t give
an order to do such thing like that.
But after islam’s migration (called ‘hijrah’), Allah give permission to figth them, but it
just if they’re started it. Moslems obey Allah, so they didn’t start to fight kuffar. Until
one day, Rasulullah pbuh got an information that Abu Sufyan’s (one of kuffar’s leader)
traveller was in their way to go back to mekkah, with the wealth that was moslems but
taken by kuffar when they’re migrated. So Rasul ordered some shahabah to check. It’s
true, so Rasul pbuh come with all 314 shahabah, included the best shahabah Abu Bakr,
Umar, and Utsman, Ali didn’t follow this war because he got an order to keep children
and women when moslems all gone from medina.
Abu Sufyan knows that Muhammad pbuh had moved to him, so he change his route,
and he succeed, instead, the kuffar in makkah also has listened this information that
Muhammad will attack Abu Sufyan’s caravan. So they prepare their selves, and soon
come to badr valley, though Abu Sufyan had passed moslems army safely, Abu Jahl, the
kuffar comander still stay, so the two side clashed. Started from this war, lot of war
happened in islam’s history. The war to rise islam, and then, to spread islam to whole
world, because islam is the ‘rahmatan lil ‘alamiin’, and it also only one that god bless on
it. So it must spread to entire world. But not all who call to islam give good response to
it. So war is need, to make all world under islam control.

·plot elements
After the war of badar, there are too many war in islam (i also don’t memorize all of
them), battle of Uhud mount, the war of ahzab (or khandaq), and than continue to all
war in islam, the famous one and not. The battle prophet take a role within and not.

Game world

Player will play in many type of battlefield. There’s a battlefield composed by sand and
mount, or an oasis, or water war, or jungle. Every battlefield has their own difficulty, and
the character will feel the difficulty. For example, if the battlefield is dessert, the
character should lost his stamina quickly, coz the heat and the difficulty in step on sand.
In jungle, there’s so much tree, so the character sometimes could knocked to tree, and
in the river or water war, it could be very slippery so the character could fall down.

Characters

There’s too many shahabah to explain, but i’ll only explain 4 of them

1.Abu Bakr
The best shahabah and the best moslem, Abu Bakar is a thin person, with the long hair
and white skin, Abu Bakar seen as weak person, but he has inner power that increase his
outer power. He fight kuffar in every war, but he could use his brain more then using his
muscle.

2.Omar bin khattab

The strongest moslem in the time, Omar bin Khattab is the very big person, with height
more than 2 meters (according to the atsar that told that Omar can ride a horse without
jumping, so he just sit on it like sit on the chair!), his skin’s red, because his big muscle.
Every person will defeat if get his hit, he has bald head, he fight with his buster sword
(it’s not the name, i took it from ff coz the sword is really very big!) the 40 kg one.

3.Ali bin Abi Thalib

The great swordman, Ali bin Abi thalib never lose in every fight he had. He is not only
strong but also smart. In using sword, he could called genius. He has light hard body
with standard height. He has many weapon, because he had many sword. One of the
most popular sword is the double blade sword. That could use to take enemy’s weapon.

4.Khalid bin Walid

Obtained after the war of khandaq. Khalid is the best comander in islam. No war led by
him but win. He is strong person, the one who ever fight with Omar and win. He ever
broke 9 sword in one war. In the game, he and Omar come with the great big body, but
khalid is little shorter than Omar, the giant.

Level
Level one : all character begin with this level. In this level, all performance of the
character is enough. Not so good, but good enough. The skill character had is just the
basic one, so the attack is not very variated. And not too strong.

Level two : character need to obtain at least 314 experiences to rise the level. In level
two, character will get 3 point skill, and will learn new variation attack. All status also
will increase as the skill point. So all status will increase by three.

Artificial Intelligent
Opponent
Opponent will react if they’re near the character and the allies. They will attack by
ordinary attack or even the skill. And they could block and avoid player’s attack. All the
opponents can do it. Not only the general or lieutenant. So player must be really aware
to save the HP n’ the stamina. Opponent also able to use the item. And they also can to
take a rest. They really act like characters and the allies. They also can heal their allies.

Allies
The Allies can do all what you do. They will react toward the opponents. They also can
react to the character, such as heal them, and help them.

Vehicles
Animal vehicles can react with calling.