Game Overview
Moon Cheeser is an infinite platformer where the player plays as a mouse gathering cheese pieces and avoiding craters and other astronomical objects, as comets, on a moon made of cheese. The main objective is to score as much as you can by gathering those cheeses, but there are side objectives which expand the experience, you can spend your cheeses gathered on some cosmetics and also you can unlock some special cosmetics by achieving some objectives in the play sessions.
The game is supposed to gather players attention with its aesthetics and simplicity. The main hook to keep players spending time is to offer more and more features to be unlocked and increase players engagement while they try to fulfill the available achievements and compete with their friends for scores, features unlocked, customization and such.
Astromouse was sleeping, dreaming about a moon made of cheese and he was gathering all the cheese the moon was kindly offering to him, but the outer space is a cruel place to be. The dream starts to get more intense when comets try to take him out his beloved moon, planets try to pull him into their orbit taking Astromouse away. But the shooting stars are there to help him, "Come on Astro" they kindly invite him for a ride and help him feed.
Astromouse is just a common mouse who dreams to be an astronaut and explore the outer space chasing his beloved Cheese Moon. The concept is very simple yet compelling.
The character's motivation is enough to create the desired game atmosphere since the game is simple, the character doesn't need any development further than the initial desire to start the mission.
The Cheese Moon is a moon made with cheese only and is the princess Astromouse searches for. She is a chaotic good moral aligned character since she defies the laws of physics in order to keep Astromouse close to her, fighting with planets with her gravity, feeding him with cheese pieces and blocking some comets, even if this means create craters on her surface.
Crater created on the Moon's surface
Comet who tries to push Astromouse away from his quest
The planets are chaotic neutral entities which apply chaotic forces into the game, their gravity pulls objects closer, if the player got too close to their gravitational field, he/she will be taken away from the Cheese Moon, meaning game over. Planets appear from time to time and only stay for a while, but it is enough time to exert their tremendous power.