ROLES

• Anna – Programmer/Artist
• Evie – Artist/Writer
• Jessica – Programmer/Artist/Level Designer
• Regina – Programmer/Artist
• Taneim – Scrum Master/Programmer/Artist/Quality Assurance Specialist/Everything Else

CONCEPT

• Based on Dante’s Inferno – a resident of the first circle, Limbo, tries to get to the center of the nine circles of hell
• Guided by a mysterious figure who promises them an escape, giving them a renewed purpose in life
• Narrative metroidvania game – player attacks and moves with chain, and has a variety of movement options such as wall jump and double jump
• Emphasis on having a smooth/fast movement experience for the player

Original Scope

(copy-pasted from the pitch presentation)

• 2 CHAPTERS (Chapter 0: Limbo, Chapter 1: Lust)
• 2 METROIDVANIA-style LEVELS
• Dialogue for NPCs in each chapter
• 2-3 enemies per chapter
• Unique Obstacles per level
• Chapter 1 BOSS Fight
• Main character with standard but deep moveset
• The option to throw objects will give us a lot more flexibility for combat while saving time
• Animations for characters
• Fully fleshed out game feel effects and polish
• For final presentation, we will present our vertical slice of this game
• AS IF THIS WAS A PITCH TO A COMPANY

Current Game Content

• ALL ART HANDCRAFTED BY US
• Player and Enemy animations
• tilesets for each map
• backgrounds for each map
• obstacles
• NPCs
• UI art and animations
• Player mechanics
• Physics-based Movement (w/ lots of control to player)
• ziplining/grappling
• picking up and throwing objects
• straight throws
• heavy throws (gravity)
• Molotov throw (Fire on ground)
• Mechanic Progression
• in the form of upgrade objects
• Chain hook upgrade
• wall jump upgrade
• damage increase upgrade
• health increase upgrade

• Level progression
• Items are either on the floor of a certain area or given as a reward from a combat zone
• Doors and keys to get to next area(s), Gemstones to unlock boss fight
• Enemy AI
• 4 enemies per chapter
• Grounded melee
• Grounded ranged
• Flying melee
• Flying Ranged
• A* algorithm for pathfinding
• Obstacles
• Lava
• Spinning spikes
• crumbling platforms
• Environmental mechanics
• Anti-grapple zones
• wind zones
• Midair hook points

Current Game Content

• VFX and particle effects
• Music and SFX for every action
• Dialogue system with fully fleshed out lore
• Lore sometimes gives hints in the game if you pay attention
• Boss fight
• Fleshed out AI, playtested and at a difficulty that we like
• Tutorialization for basic mechanics
• Some stuff will be hidden to the user because we want to allow room for the player to explore and have fun!
• Difficulty settings for anybody to be able to play the game
• Easy, Normal, Hard

• 2 full Levels
• Limbo & Lust
• Levels are metroidvania style with the goal of exploring the map to figure out how to proceed
• Have certain parkour sections and certain combat zones
• Parkour gets more difficult throughout the game
• UI
• Pause menu (has sound controls)
• HUD
• Display HP and icons for picked up objects and hook
• Display minimap
• Save system
• (you can leave the game and come back later)
• Parallaxed background
• Checkpoints (heals player as well)
• Game feel elements and “Juice”

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Limbo Level Design Draft

Lust Level Design Draft

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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Limbo Level Design Draft

Final

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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Lust Level Design Draft

Final

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Grab + Throw

Attack

Ziplining/Grappling

Zip to thrown projectiles

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Enemy Patrol

Enemy Chase

Enemy Attack

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Dialogue

Checkpoints

UI ASSETS

Challenges

• Fake merge errors
• Some bugs to fix when combining levels
• Tweaking balance on the levels and combat
• Optimization
• Adjusting mechanics we already implemented

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Final Gameplay

MADE BY:

Anna Zheng

Evie Cundy

Jessica Bek

Regina Wu

Taneim Miah

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SPECIAL THANKS:

Milk + Mike + Zehua

Classmates

Playtesters

Any questions?