Walkthrough

Game Design

ATTENTION !!! follows the same structure as Defender. However, whereas Defender maintains a finite number of objects that the player is able to manage successfully, ATTENTION !!! operationalizes a person’s attention span and attentional resources via the Game Level Number by increasing the number of simultaneous player management tasks on every subsequent level. For Example:

Level 1: The player learns movement controls and is tasked with flying to a checkpoint to confirm their comprehension. The player learns to use the “Minimap” at the top of the screen to locate objects of interest.
Level 2: The player learns that movement entails a Fuel Cost by being tasked with purposefully exhausting their fuel supply (displayed at the top left of their screen).
Level 3: The player learns how to fire laser blasts from their ship. The player is tasked with firing their lasers 10 times.
Level 4: The player learns that firing their lasers drains their ship’s power (displayed at the top left of their screen). The player is tasked with purposefully exhausting their power supply.
Level 5: The player is tasked with locating and destroying asteroids by: locating their position on the minimap, moving to their location, targeting the asteroids, and firing their lasers at the asteroids to destroy them. The player must complete this scenario without their ship colliding with any other objects.
Level 6: The player is tasked with destroying all moving asteroids on the game level, without colliding with any game objects.
Level 7: Similar to Level 6, the player is tasked with destroying 2 Alien Ships, in addition to asteroids, which pursue and fire back at the player.
Level 8: Same as Level 7. However, the total amount of Alien Ships combatting the player increases from 2 to 5, and the total amount of asteroids increases from 5 to 10.
Level 9: Same as Level 8. However, the total amount of Alien Ships increases from 5 to 10.