MapPoint
Its Friday night and the weekend's here, you need to unwind... Where's the party?

The object of MapPoint is to drive around the city of Chi-Town and find the location of the party by midnight!
In order to find the location of the party, you have to first find pieces of a flyer that has the MapPoint location. Once you have all the pieces of the flyer, you know the location of the MapPoint and have to find it while exploring the city. When you are at the MapPoint location, you will be given a "puzzle" to solve before given the location of the party. If you solve the puzzle in time, you can party!

While the player drives around the city trying to find the flyer pieces and the MapPoint, he also encounters happy/mad clock faces that if collided with, will give him more time or less time which adds to the challenge of the game.

MapPoint is designed for the 12-15 yr. old range to introduce strategy and problem solving in games.

Control
The car will be controlled by the arrow keys. Once flyer pieces are collected, you are able to enter the puzzle mode(if found). In puzzle mode you can either solve the puzzle or exit and return to the driving mode. The ‘X’ key lets you leave a puzzle unsolved and begin driving again.

General Notes
- The game will have a time limit. The party must start on time and you need to be there for it! By decreasing the allotted time the game becomes more challenging even if certain puzzles are not that difficult.
- The geography of the game will reflect actual streets in downtown Chicago.
- The camera is third person and similar to Grand Theft Auto, however the look of the game will remain somewhat cartoonish to reflect the age level and flavor of the puzzle environment.
- You cannot save the game in the beta, but in later versions you can save it and work on the remaining puzzles at a later time.

Levels and Expandability
The beta version will have flyer pieces that you must collect in order to solve 1 puzzle to reach your final goal. Once you have solved the last puzzle in time you will be given the location of the party and the game will end or else you lose.

In an expanded version there would be more of Chi-Town to drive around in and there would be more puzzles to solve. If there were 9 puzzles you would need to solve the first 3 in any order to be able to solve the next there (in any order). Only after you have solved the first 3 would the next 3 “blink” and reveal their locations. This would force a certain storyline and progression in difficulty, while allowing the player to put a given difficult puzzle aside for a bit while he went on to solve one that might be easier to him, therefore allowing the game to continue to be played if a short term dead end is encountered.

Puzzles
- Collect party flyer pieces
- Towers of Hanoi at a record store - aka Spindles of Chi-Town

What makes it Fun?
- Driving around in a car exploring the environment, bumping into things.
- Solving and learning classic puzzles are fun and challenging for high school age students.
- The soundtrack is fun, puts the player in a party mood!
- Racing against the clock!
- Scavenger hunt feel