What is Fred?

For our first project we have been asked to re-imagine an existing game, design this game and then pitch our idea in a 10 minute presentation. I am looking forward to this project as it will be a challenge to keep the skeleton of the original game while infusing my own creations and ideas to make a different game.

The game I have been given to redesign is a 1980s video game called Fred, where you play an intrepid adventurer exploring mazes disguised as ancient ruins and caves. You must climb and escape each maze while collecting treasures and avoiding dangers of ghosts, rats and poisonous drips. Fred is armed with a pistol but only has 6 bullets so the player must use these shots wisely, and collecting each treasure is not a necessity but will give the player a higher score for the more collected.