Design Document Space Invader Clone

Game pitch

Deadline - 1 week the 30TH

Genre - Arcade Rogue-Like RPG 

Gameplay Goal

1 - Wave combat system

2 - Bullet hell

3  - Difficult

4 - Addictive

5 - platforming

Goals

Player chooses weapon (start with two choices)

Add a shield system

random level generated parts (ie. not entire generation of levels but varied designs of the levels)

Shield regen system (must hit shots on the enemy to regen your shield)

Energy system

Move delay (mal)

Kill streak (drops if hit)

kill streak score boost

More than one level

Completed Game mechanics

Left & Right (release, pressed, held, etc)

1 - movement

2 - move excel

3 - pivot (i.e.. you don't lose speed right away from the excel of your tank but have a single frame window to keep said speed)

4 - letting go of one direction will cause a breaking effect

5 - pressing the opposite direction from the tank being moved that the tank speeds up breaking

6  - breaking reset if pressed the same direction of the moving tank

7 - moving right or left affect the bullet being shot out

Press up

1 - shoot

2 - ammo consumed

3 - blaster shot sound

4 - hold shooting a firing of ammo is slower than pressing the shots

Other

1 - bullet gravity

2 - bullet Type

3 - bullet Regen

4 - bullet transform

5 - bullet drift

6 - draw ammo

7 - draw health bar

8 - simple enemies

player stats

1 - player HP, HP max

2 - player ammo, ammo max

3 - player movement

4 - move excel

Enemy types

1 - move and shoot

2  - simple grunts (nothing yet)

3 - exploders (charge the player)

4 - Exploder runner

5 - Shielder

6 - bomber

Levels

Kill all enemy levels (wave survive) and survive and time levels.

1 - grunts

2 - grunts and shooters

3 - grunts, shooters and exploder

Notes

Focus on one goal at a time, not every goal at once

Gave me ideas for my game idea Down Cave.

Enemies should work with not against the level design. 1 to 2 enemies introduced a level.

Easy to get lazy when you don't set a time and habit and or get side tracked by adding a cool new thing. A ship without a captian drives in circles.

Easy to get lazy at the end of the day.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Psychological manipulation #2 Big numbers

 This is a fine balancing act for players but the goal of the matter is to keep going for the big numbers and keep the big numbers with them getting bigger, and bigger then you get the picture. With this not only having one set of numbers get bigger but having the other numbers get bigger as well. You need some form of system to keep the players wanting the numbers to get bigger. For idle clicker games you use the reset system to get the player coming back; with the MMORPG system you scale down those numbers in updates so you can keep numbers getting bigger or use the shared power system for the players to use. Personally I like using an XP reset system; once the XP hits max for the level, the XP subtracts from the XP cost bringing it down to 0 and as thus allowing that big number of XP to still feel big. Then you might be asking about the player leveling up which there is always the COD reset level system where once the level hits a big enough number you have it where the progress...
Read more

Power Creep

 Power creep can be both a good and a bad thing. With power creep you have it where players are being fed more powerful items or cards where they ditch old equipment for the new toys and make it so players will actually use it. On that same note you're trading the learning the items/ understanding how to make oneself more powerful through strats by relying on your given powerful new toys and making players throw them away again once more toys do show up. It's a useful investment strat for card games but does get boring for games where the only thing you have to look forward to is bigger more powerful numbers instead of different strats/ tactics you've never seen or used before with the bigger numbers feeling meaningless. Person experience; with Yu-Gi-Oh playing the rogue format was more fun even if I lost because I wasn't losing to the FTK format and actually scaled down in power with having fun seeing different strats/ tactics, that the limitations that were self impos...
Read more

Deck Size matters

 Small decks These kind of games make it where the game is being given a more consistent/ predictable strategy. The outcome being much more predictable but having it where players are dealing with mill and burn strats far too often making them busted. Large decks These kind of games make mill/ burn strats basically useless but have less reliance on consistent drawing what you want; however in a game where search abilities exist with the more search power the more options that open up and remove the down side of having a larger deck becomes.
Read more