Game Theme: You must save your planet, Argon, from destruction by an invading force!
- Overview: Features
- Camera is on a rail/path camera
- Player
- moves horizontal/vertical
- can shoot bullets (damage to opponent)
- Enemies
- Fly on paths (or stationary)
- Might shoot
- Health
- enemies have health that depletes when shot
- should travel on paths and be hand placed by the designer
- Scores
- Points for killing enemies
- Game loop
- Upon dying, player restarts
- Game design
- Player experience: chaos
- Core Mechanic: Dodge and shoot
- Core game loop: Get as far as possible w/o dying in order to get the highest score possible. Start from beginning when dying.
- Other features
- multiple levels - finish level and load next
- pickups - flying over a shield pickup will increate the player’s shields
- player shield - when damaged, the player’s field depletes
- momentary invulnerability - after taking damage, the player cannot take damage again for X time
- weapon upgrade - flying over a pickup could increase weapon damage